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Jan 2008
Nothing to do with pickup.
This has nothing to do with pick-up, but it deserves to be posted. One of the best speeches I’ve heard in a long time. It starts kinda slow, and gets good around the third minute.
As Savoy can testify, I work in a building one block east of TMM/LS headquarters, where the company I work for raised nearly half the money the DNC raised in the 2006 election cycle. I know this political stuff better than 99.9% of the population, and I correctly anticipated every major turn since 2001. Tthere wouldn’t be WMDs in Iraq, they would be friendly in Iraq for about a year and then it would be a huge rebellion, Bush had prior warnings about 9/11, the list goes on.
Obama makes pretty speeches, but he says different things to different people about his support for the war, future wars, the future of America’s imperialism, his record is underwhelming, has stabbed people in the back who supported him with things like the credit card bill, the people he’s stacked as advisers are horrible. Corporatists, just like Hillary, who was a corporate lawyer for Walmart, and she currently has a union buster as one of her top aides/advisers.
Unfortunately Kucinich had the bottom of a gnome, he was the most progressive, then came John Edwards, who converted to the good side since the 2004 election, and the rest are the same usual corporate whores.
Other than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, Barbara Boxer, Dennis Kucinich, Maxine Waters, and about 2/3 of the congressional black caucus, and a few marginal progressives here and there (Russ Feingold, more talk than substance, Louise Slaughter) these people are the worst.
What brought about the New Deal was fear that what happened in Russia, where the people overthrew and killed the ruling class, would happen here. The entire New Deal was actually the platform of the Socialist/Communist Party Of America. The US Empire was competing with the Soviet Empire for influence in Africa, and that forced the US to play relatively nice, and that’s why you finally got civil rights in the late 50′s and 60′s.
Until there is real internal and external pressure, at least a strategic international boycott of trade along the lines of what MLK and Gandhi used to do, there is not a strong enough incentive for the wolves who run the US to play nice.
Obama doesn’t change squat.
January 27th, 2008 at 3:01 amWow, just appalled at how poorly written that whole thing was. I just realized how much I’m used to doing longer essays in Word.
In any case, Kucinich = body of a gnome
January 27th, 2008 at 3:08 amI’m definitely voting for Obama. I don’t know how much he can realistically “change” things but I do think it’s time for something different and hopefully he can get the ball rolling in the right direction. The status quo as it currently stands is horrible.
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January 30th, 2008 at 7:07 am