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All President Obama needs is our support.

He did the right thing. But it was a brave thing because he had to take on the muscle of the oil industry, including the American Petroleum Institute, which is their association, their lobbying group. The members of Congress who had expedited this — trying to railroad it through under an arbitrary deadline — received $42 million from the oil industry, the fossil fuel industry, and they were riding it through.

It was because Obama had people power behind him, that he could do the right thing. You know, Bill McKibben, the great naturalist writer and his organization called 350.org, and the National Resources Defense Council brought thousands of people to Washington to show the President that he could do the right thing and they would have his back. Franklin Roosevelt said to the union guys, you know, ‘Make me do the right thing. Go out and build popular support so I can do the right thing.’ Lyndon Johnson put his arm around Martin Luther King and said ‘Dr. King, go out there and make it possible for me to do the right thing.’

…The issue in the (Keystone XL) Pipeline — there were lots of technical issues — but the real issue was the integrity of the political process. There was collusion between high government officials and the (oil) industry to get this through before the public had a chance to be heard. They stopped it, and they also gave the President the ammunition to fight the right battles. He could not have done it without people power. That’s one reason why Occupy Wall Street is so important right now: to build the support for change.

President Obama sings a line from Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.”

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So I already wanted a pair of Bordeaux Spiz’ikes. and now Spike Lee has given President Barack Obama a “Presidential Pack.”

So now I NEED a pair.

Section 80 Report (2011 Wrap Up)

This was a tough one to handle honestly. Who mattered, who didn’t (to us), and how could they go together? What was important, what was news, and what was funny? I think we did a good job on this video… but we do apologize for the blurry part at the end… and I don’t apologize for wearing my lion hat.

You will not miss the 18 minutes of your life watching this video!

Hear Us Media presents The Section 80 Report! This is our 2011 Wrap Up. We did it a little differently this time. Instead of talking about different events that happened, we talked about people who mad some kind of impact this year. The categories are:

• Enemies of the State
• Douchebags
• Trifling Ass Wominz
• Nigga Please
• HNIC (Head Niggas In Charge)
• Rest In Piece

Directed by: Marvin Hodelin of SimplyDop3 Productions

Music by: BlackMuzik Productions, “A Conglomerate Intro” (Intro by Kendrick Lamar, “Chapter 10”)

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“I don’t think it requires us to go negative in the sense of us running a bunch of ads that are false, or character assassinations,” Obama said, as reported by Univision.”It will be based on facts.”

“We may just run clips of the Republican debates verbatim,” he added.

(via liberalsarecool)

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(via existentrillest)

Some of the choice comments from that Fox “News” story

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dropfox:

This is actually the top story on Fox News’ “Fox Nation” right now.

I’m more upset with the fact I’m not offended. Have I been so desensitized that I don’t find this offensive, that I think it’s slightly amusing?

They shouldn’t be doing this without opposition. They need to know they are wrong. And I need to be angry every time. Every fucking time.

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President Barack Obama, Ruby Bridges (now 56 years old), and representatives of the Norman Rockwell Museum view Rockwell’s The Problem We All Live With, hanging in a West Wing hallway near the Oval Office.