On Apr 28, 12:40 pm, trudogg <trud...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> by Ed Kociela
>
> The Democrats bailed out of an op****tunity to sell themselves before a
> national television audience on the Fox News Channel because they
> believed it was unfair.
>
> So they lined up before a national audience on MSNBC Thursday night
> like the ladies who try to land a trick at the Bunny Ranch, selling
> their charms. At least at the Nevada brothel the customer gets what
> they paid for and a little satisfaction.
>
> Impressions of the so-calleddebate?
>
> The perpetuation of rich white men with power seeking more power and
> promising to trade their souls to get it. That includesBarackObama
> and Hillary Clinton, who are the embodiment of the old-school
> politician -- rich, white powerful men who would do anything and
> everything to get elected.
>
> Obamastarted his flip-flop by saying that everything is on the table
> as far as Iran is concerned and Clinton has yet to clearly explain her
> confusing positions on the Bush War.
>
> Please, don't give me that load of **** that any one of them is better
> than what we have now. That's not going to cut it, not now.
>
> And, of course, it's no different on the other side.
>
> I bristled when I first saw the terms Repugnicans and Dimocrats used
> online to describe our leader****p. I don't any longer.
>
> I also bristled when I saw people take aim at the MSM, as the
> mainstream media has come to be known. I don't any longer.
>
> So count me as a member of the newly disenfranchised.
>
> When the so-called news channels fill the air with BREAKING NEWS about
> Alec Baldwin yelling at his daughter on the day a U.S. Congressman
> files impeachment papers on Dick Cheney, something is wrong.
>
> When, on the day when the Senate votes for an end to the Bush War
> those same channels air BREAKING NEWS about Rosie O'Donnell leaving
> her daytime television show, something's wrong.
>
> I hate to revert to a bygone era, but the way things are going,
> Timothy Leary's advice to turn on, tune in and drop out is making more
> and more sense.
>
> And, let's be real. Will the rest of the dimwits in Congress actually
> impeach the president of vice and will they have the cajones to pull
> us out of the Bush War?
>
> Will they institute real change in our health care system?
>
> Will they realize that the war on drugs is a hypocritical dance done
> by some of the biggest stoners on the planet?
>
> Will they realize that this outcry about illegal immigration does
> nothing but foster more hatred and bigotry?
>
> Will they realize that since the Reagan administration our leaders
> have been slowly chipping away at our civil rights and freedom?
>
> Will they realize that the succession of leader****p that goes Reagan,
> Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush is an affront to the
> principles of democracy?
>
> **** no.
>
> But, they don't have the spine for any of these fights, so it's all
> symbolic and haven't we all had enough of this symbolic crap?
>
> There is nobody, and I mean nobody, out there capable of representing,
> let alone relating to, the great unwashed majority of people who have
> decided that voting is futile and they don't want to be bothered by
> politicians who say they feel their pain yet do nothing to soothe it.
>
> Politicians in $2,000 Armani suits with $400 haircuts have no clue
> what you and I are going through. They don't consider a Happy Meal
> from McDonald's eating out, they don't have to scrape up the money to
> take care of their doctor bills and they won't have to live off Social
> Security when they retire.
>
> So, what did we really get Thursday night?
>
> Same as we're hearing from most of the GOP: "It's all George Bush's
> fault."
>
> We already knew that.
>
> But how would they fix it? However the profiteers, who really run the
> show, decide is best. And, quite frankly, I'm tired of the profiteers.
> None of us who work for anything other than a Mom and Pop shop are
> working for a company, we're working for investors -- fat, rich white
> men who don't give a **** about our income or benefits because all
> they care about are their return on investment.
>
> If ever there was time for the 2nd Great American Revolution, now's
> the time.
>
> I'm not talking bloodshed in the streets, but I am talking about a
> political revolt on the same grounds as before: Taxation without
> representation.
>
> The overwhelming majority in this country opposes the Bush War, but it
> will get funding. They are begging for health care, but they are not
> getting it. They are desperate for leader****p, but they aren't getting
> it.
>
> It's time to burn our voter cards on the steps of city hall.
>
> Or, organize a party of the real people who inhabit this country.
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