Here is an email the Libertarian party just sent out, and while reading it, keep an image of Stephen Colbert in your mind because when he introduced Bob Barr as "Babar", only us Cajuns & Frenchies got the joke:
Dear Texas Libertarian:The Bob Barr campaign and the Libertarian Party of Texas filed suit in Texas to remove John McCain and Barack Obama from the November ballot. With a record number of candidates on the ballot in Texas, we are extremely busy trying to keep up with everything. Unfortunately, Hurricane Ike has made communications with many in the Gulf Coast area more difficult. While we've only heard from a few Libertarians, we hope all of the Libertarians and everyone else are safe and wish them a speedy recovery. We've been holding off on ordering more yard signs and door hangers hoping that more funds would come in so we could make larger purchases. We haven't quite run out of the ones we purchased for the last election season, but we're about to. Please consider a $1,000, $500 or even just a $50 contribution as soon as possible. I'll have to decide how many to order in the next few days and that will be based on how much money we have in the bank. I'm hoping to order 2,000 yard signs and 100,000 door hangers, but we don't have the funds to do it yet.Regards,Wes BenedictExecutive DirectorLibertarian Party of Texas
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Nice to know there's a party with a focus, eh?
The local Libertarian candidate sent out another hilarious campaign letter. I quote: "HIRE me to represent you!" *ROTFLMAO*
The gist of his message this time is that he needs some money to finish out another leg of his campaign. This is the same guy that invited all the interested readers of the Libertarian news to show up and give to the government-run & Clintonite feminist food pantry to support his campaign without realizing a few things: #1: at the local level, we do know which food pantries are connected with corrupt political finances and which ones are not. It is always a risk for a young politician to identify himself with one if he is not privy to the food pantry's back office, and frankly, young men are not privy to most of the corruption among feminist activists that has crippled the legitimate womens' rights movement.
So his food-pantry gamble backfired and now he needs money.
And I guess maybe he did learn something from the female crack-heads that the food pantry staff keep out front in order to discourage close contact with honest women, because he is openly asking for money for his services!
I laugh, but at the same time I cry. The Libertarians have a couple of important things going for them: a strong reminder of the original character of American constitutional government, and a damn good reggae band.
Which brings me to another thing: if the lengthy, unedited video I watched on Austin Public Access the other night is any indication, my fears that we are headed for a period of serious civil violence is unfounded. The tape was made by one of the Austin citizen-journalists who was documenting the protest "demonstration" outside the Republican Convention.
PUUULEEEEZE!!!! I could not tell if the demonstrators were Democrat activists, disgruntled anarchist Republicans, or what.... There was nothing but one apparently leftwing woman yelling through a bullhorn about ending the war and stopping bombs and a bunch of people kind of ambling around in a disconnected fashion. The woman's statements made some sense, but there was no back-up team, there was no MUSIC facrissake, and her statements were not part of even a short speech. There were no signs, no banners. At one point the camera showed a young man with apparently the same bullhorn reading a statement about "Congress shall make no law....." etc from the Bill of Rights.... at other points the camera followed a street performer who tried in vain to get attention to Satanic paraphernalia and gestures, and the camera man speculated that this was a police-planted provocateur but a bystander told him the performer was a homeless man well-known in the neighborhood for his antics. A few activists wore kerchief covers on their faces and looked kind of strange, given the total lack of any reason for anyone being concerned about the crowd's behavior.
The camera cut back to the woman with the bullhorn and another woman who were acting as if they led a rally but no rally appeared, just, as I said, a disconnected collection of bemused pedestrians. Some police rode up and announced that the "parade permit" was about to expire and everyone would have to disperse at 5 o'clock. The bullhorn yellers tried to inspire social outrage as people began to amble more or less away from the area. Lines of police in riot gear stood around the perimeter,. They were probably, by their fence-like posture, more responsible for the gathering looking slightly like a crowd than any intention of people to actually gather for any purpose. A couople of bystanders were caught discussing the way they had to drive around police blockades just to get about the city, and they strengthened the impression this was a randomly herded cluster of pedestrians, not a gathering of people with a political purpose of any kind.
I want to tell you all something, ok, just IN CASE we Americans need to act together as a group: PICK UP SOME VIDEO FROM THE '60'S AND TAKE A LESSON!
Lesson #1. Get SOME MUSIC out there, and with a message in the lyrics! It serves the ancient human purpose of signalling people that there is in fact a gathering point. Make it easy to sing and relatively upbeat and energetic. Give people the impression that victory is possible without bloodshed.
#2. Provide at least a few large, multi-person banners that spell out your grievance in a full sentence, without cusswords. This not only identifies your demonstrartion in photos around the world, it gives your group a sense of team leadership. Let other people get creative with individual small signs, and provide a stack of posters and markers off to one side to encourage that.
#3. Don't focus your bullhorn rage on the cops! Those are just men and women doing their job. They do not act independently. Focus on their bosses and the poltical beliefs that drive them, which ultimately, is YOU, and YOUR political beliefs.
Back in the Sixties, after the initial shock of the gunning down of the students at Kent State, cops and others who were sent in to do the state's dirty work often showed sympathy with the crowd and reluctance to carry out arrests. This is important. It happened because most of the big demonstrations were filled with people who followed Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr's teachings of nonviolence and we made friendly eye-contact with the police, and appealed to them as fellow citizens. And, by the way, Gandhi and MLK WON the day! Please remember that!
The jackasses who did the Bill Ayer Bernadine Dorn thing did take control of the money side of politics, but the victory of the people was not at all a result of their ignorant hate and violence.
The movements of the Sixties scared the government into redesigning police gear to actually make it more difficult to make eye-contact and a friendly social connection with the individual police officer, and that is because such human contact is, by itself, far more powerful than bullhorns and angry gestures.
That ambling crowd of bemused pedestrians was truly a sad sight to see. The only good thing I can take away from it is that perhaps we will not see civil collapse in the next few years, but the bad thing is that there is NO popular muscle-coordination to resist the state machine when it comes to mow us all down at once.
Here in Austin, Texas the fight is going uphil and this is why:
"PUMA", the lunatic fringe of the Clintonite faction, is openly running hate campaigns in its effort to bust up the Democratic party. "PUMA" claims to be left-wing but is, in fact, pure fascist. And then there is the "Libertarian" party, which has a strong base in Texas because of its' populist/anarchist pretensions. That party is at least partly led by Clintonites and is opening the throttle on its' own disinformation strategy to bust up the mainstream Democrats.
I had briefly considered the Libertarians as a viable "protest vote" should the Obama campaign fail, and so I got on their mailing list. Now that I am firmly in Obama's camp in spite of the Clintonite shadow, I am glad I did because I am getting some real gems in the mail. I had abandoned them as a protest alternative after visiting their bookstore and finding out that the owner is so emotionally supportive of Hillary Clinton that he cannot abide criticism of her, not even when it comes from someone who actually worked for her in 1993. I wondered, very briefly, how the Clintonites slipped that mole in that far, and then I watched a local Libertarian tv show with a interview with a local city council candidate who was a Democrat activist running on the Libertarian ticket.
It was hilarious. The host had not pre-interviewed the 20-something-year-old. He was obviously surprised when he asked the stock question "What brought you from a Democrat background into the Libertarian party?" and she answered that she gave up working for Democrat campaigns because she could not find a paying job doing so, and then she decided to go out for herself. I thought she was a deliberate anti-candidate doing guerilla theatre with their party, and maybe she was. Politics is interesting this year. She didn't get elected.
Then the local congressional candidate for the Libertarians sent a campaign email around inviting everyone to a food-pantry benefit for one of the main Clinton fronts, a women's shelter that requires political conversion of victims of violent crime in order for them to receive assistance. The food pantry issue itself is one the Libertarians could easily win votes by addressing, even short of the shelter's exploitation of need as a coercive recruitment tactic, because the Travis county food pantry system charges agencies MORE than Walmart or HEB for a lot of the food that they then distribute to their beneficiaries! And of course the agencies nonprofit structure makes it hard for their staff to decide to spend their budgets outside the county food-pantry warehouse.
But the Libertarian candidate chose not to address those two easy issues. Instead, he is running on a completely Clintonite pity-exploitation platform.
And now, the clincher: the local Libertarians sent a long article around announcing that the Democrats and Republicans failed to file in time to get their candidates on the Texas ballot. Their mailing list will react and swallow that disinformation because most will fail to read the whole thing and see the footnote that states, without explanation, that in fact the names will be on the ballots. The email is basically a hoax.
There is likely to be a lot of violence in Texas, and it is due to this kind of deceptive strategy. The Clintonites are skillfully priming the Texan base to over-react to any kind of uncertainty in the election, and we all know the system is terribly uncertain this year.
One doesn't have to be a rocket scientist on the economic and international political issues or on the environmental and civic issues to make a judgement in favor of the Obama/Biden ticket. Just watching them talk and watching the others talk is enough. Obama and Biden both are thinking and answering questions out of their own thoughts, while McCain and Palin run an almost adolescent campaign full of prepared sound-bytes and the only alternative party that has any presence on the ballots, at least in this part of the country, is openly fraudulent in all of its tactics.
One doesn't have to be a rocket scientist, but one does have to have at least a little bit of analytical capacity, and too many voters in America today don't have that. Too many voters are reactive at the emotional level and are easily manipulated by the Clintonite faction that continues to devote so much of its media and other resources to dividing and disrupting the process. Obama has to face this issue of Clintonite treachery if he wants to win by a wide enough margin to be able to accomplish the change he promises.
Watching Al Gore's endorsement speech was like watching the scene in a science-fiction movie where the brainwashed village population is slowly coming out of its fog and reclaiming reality....
Especially when he took on the "respect" issue regarding McCaine.
I am no McCaine supporter because by default he is a product of the wrong politics, as well as I do have reservations about his personal fitness for the job, but respect is still important.
Gore may have lost his election in 2004 by that notoriously contested margin mainly because of the party's failure to respect anyone at all. Remember how many fence-sitters would not commit to Bush, and then at the very last minute they went over to that side? i believe that happened because so much of the Democrat party had devoted itself to personal disrespect of such things as Bush's idiosyncracies and mannerisms, and the people from the parts of the country where self-deprecating humor and Bush's folksy accent are normal, the hate seemed like it was directed more at the people than at GW Bush. No one votes for a party that seems to hate the voters themselves. Gore healed a lot of wounds today, when he took on the few hecklers and insisted on respect! Thank you, Al Gore!
Now that Obama has Gore moving the party in a direction of personal respect, maybe we will finally see an election based on issues and not personal traits.
If Obama's leadership can accomplish that in a country that is as addicted to sarcastic humor as the USA, then everything else is certainly within reach! I think everyone will be happy to see Al Gore have a strong role in Obama's cabinet.
I made an angry retort to Mickiboop. I misplaced my response to her post by not reading the entire series of Walmart-related posts from different people carefully enough. This blog does not make it easy to follow a series on one topic.
The Walmart fallacy is that Walmart-haters support working people. In fact, they happily shop at stores that are easily more oppressive than WalMart and pay higher prices for similar imported goods. They also ignore the big shopping centers that cause similar land-development problems just because they identify themselves with the better-off shoppers at those other stores. Wal-mart haters are using WalMart as a cover for hating low-income wage laborers in general.
We have so much assault going on against working class people in my city that it has made my fuse very very short. I apologize for offending anyone who is an Obama supporter, but I make no aplogy at all for offending any Clinton supporters. I am not one of the ostriches with their heads in the sand about the fact that Hitlery Clinton did not actually concede anything to Obama's victory. I beleive many Clintonites have come into the Obama campaign with the intention of taking it over at the convention. We cannot afford to ignore their true intentions.
I was actually mobbed and shoved out of a community group because I used Walmart plastic bags and I thought that was just an odd personal thing until I noticed that the people running around this city with "stop Walmart" petitions are using them as trigger points for targetting people to drive out of the city for other reasons, mostly Clinton-style class hatred of menial laborers. They have been attacking people using all the Clinton tactics of gathering personal information and then feeding it into their activist network to take over "affinity" groups and grab real-estate through their control of "neigborhood" groups.
The Clintonites have identified a certain set of characteristics as being "the enemy" and shopping at WalMart is one of them. Being under $25,000 a year is another, and they are actually waging a war in this city against the affordable apartment complexes that have been getting city help to serve that population. The Clintonites for the most part are so disconnected from reality that they do not know that $25,000 a year is well above what anyone in any regular minimum-wage type job earns full-time and they characterize such people as "poor" instead of as "working class" and they characterize all "poor" as criminal noncitizen undesirables who are to be driven out of the city so that California yuppies can move in. They are not content to buy a house and move in, they are focused on driving everyone else out.
In fact you can live quite well here for about $12-15,000 a year (single w/o kids) and until recently you also were respected if you worked. Lots of artists and musicians have lived here for that reason but now the Clinton activists are mobbing us all out of our clubs and jobs and shutting down our studios unless we co-operate with their crazy fringe radical politics and give them control of our funding and hand them our neighborhoods.
I watched this whole WalMart fight over the years and the more I learned about actual urban growth patterns and planning and retail marketing, the more I could see the fallacy in the entire set-up. Watching them mob people based on class perceptions of body type, clothing, and stylishness (the "new" racism!) has confirmed the true nature of the anti-Walmart crazies.
Has anyone else noticed that if you click a profile link you no longer get the little box for requesting a "friend" connection?
Maybe it is just a co-incidence that I have chosen a number of people in a row who do not want friend-requests available, but it just happened on every one I tried today.
I was trying to pull friends from my local area to hook up for leafletting, etc and I sent out 25 requests. Did I hit a threshold? My present number is 17 and I have seen profiles withmore than 80 on their friend list.
If this sudden disappearance of that link from my pages is not supposed to be happening, then someone in tech needs to look at it and see what is going on.
I have made some very strong anti-Clinton remarks regarding VP choice. I am known to the Clintons because I did work for one of the contractors they screwed in 1993, this is a matter of record since I was paid a normal wage and I have copies of my Soc Sec records which I have used to prove the facts of my work history in self-defense when applying for benefits. I have also faced off with Clinton extremists, completely apart from Obama's campaign, in local politics. It is not paranoid or unrealistic for me to think that maybe Obama has a Clinton supporter in the tech department who does not want any people developing friends-networks if they have direct, verifiable experience.
I really don't care if I am barred from making new "friend" connections here because of some built-in threshold based on numbers, because the battle is not won online. I just wanted to mention this site-glitch so that if ithe blockage is not something Obama's own leadership has approved and it is affecting anyone else, it can be fixed before a self-assertive techie interferes with anyone else's ability to set up local campaign support networks.
I was noticing some posts from Obamians visiting a Clintonite site called PUMA and wondered what it was about, so I googled and found that PUMA stands for "Party Unity My Ass" and here is a major hate-nexus for these Democrats who are setting up a third party rather than join Obama:
http://obambi.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/puma/
This is probalby where the agitators preparing civil disturbances are rallying, along with the professional agents-provocateurs Clinton has already sent into Ron Paul's eccentric little Republican faction. I was toying with the idea of voting for Paul as a protest vote until Obama showed himself as a viable candidate, and so I have had a few conversations with Ron Paul activists and I noticed that a number of them becvame extremely angry at me for criticizing Hillary Clinton and suggesting some angles that would actually support their more controversial ideas (such as 9-11 as "false flag" set-up) They were concentrating on Bush-bashing. The emotional reaction to my remarks caused me to wonder what is up with that. Ron Paul's association with the Libertarian party caused me also to look at that (I am a libertarian with a populist-socialist streak by nature, yah, I know: hippie-utopian *LOL* ) and I saw the same odd thing: people in leadership positions with a strange allergic reaction to criticism of Hillary.
It bears watching. The crazy violent stuff is to be expected and it is naziesque, for sure. The PUMAs are consciously hateful, and the Libertarian-RonPaul Republicans just seem clueless to the ease with which a few Clintonites seem to have inserted themselves like termites in the beams.
This is not about Obama, it is about an old Republican shenanigan that I just happened to come across and i found that the article has been taken off the internet (got an apache server error page for it) but it was still available in the google cache at http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:dq6waB6FZb0J:www.observer.com/2000/right-wing-southerner-rudys-secret-weapon-senate-campaign+%22no+boundaries%22+limbaugh&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=40&gl=us
Given what I know about the google system, this means the page was yanked sometime in the past 30 days ( I could be wrong) and therefore one wonders what is afoot? Should we be looking for something strange from the island of Rush, or from Rudy?
If, for reasons that might best be described as unfathomable, you've bought a Rush Limbaugh power tie recently, you soon may be receiving an urgent appeal for campaign donations from a prospective United States Senate candidate named Rudolph Giuliani. That's because the Giuliani campaign has the names of some 37,000 right-wing fashion victims who don neckwear from Mr. Limbaugh's "No Boundaries" collection. They apparently also have the names of people who think President Clinton has surrendered control of the national parks to the United Nations, who supported former Lieut. Col. Oliver North, who support English-only laws, and who have bought Rush Limbaugh winter boots, sandals, coffee mugs and, of all things, mink gloves.
As part of its aggressive direct-mail fund raising, the Giuliani camp quite naturally has turned to people who might be inclined to send a check to keep Hillary Rodham Clinton out of the Senate. But a look at the lists shows that the Giuliani campaign has stockpiled lists of potential donors who have supported groups and causes that seem to be at odds with the Mayor's image as a moderate Republican who favors gay rights, immigrant rights and abortion rights.
Among the organizations whose mailing lists the Giuliani campaign has rented from Response Unlimited are the American Center for Legislative Reform, which apparently believes that blue-helmeted United Nations troops will soon replace rangers at Yellowstone National Park; the Catholic Alliance, an anti-abortion offshoot of the Christian Coalition; and the American Patriot Donors, which opposes gay rights.
Richard Viguerie, the controversial right-wing direct-mail magnate, was enlisted by Giuliani operatives to arrange for the list rental, according to a source familiar with the transaction. The Observer first reported Mr. Viguerie's role with the Giuliani campaign in its on-line edition on Jan. 21.
Mr. Viguerie would seem to be an unlikely supporter of Mr. Giuliani. A leading right-wing warrior, he has worked for Jesse Helms, Oliver North, George Wallace and Patrick Buchanan. His very presence in the Giuliani campaign suggests that widespread contempt for Mrs. Clinton on the right has made the Mayor somewhat palatable to diehard social conservatives.
Calls to Mr. Viguerie's office were not returned.
Kim Serafin, a spokesman for the Giuliani campaign, declined to comment on fund-raising specifics. "Trying to paint the Mayor as a right-winger is absurd," she said. "This notion of a vast right-wing conspiracy is an old Clinton tactic that New Yorkers won't fall for."
It is not known how of Mr. Giuliani's fund-raising appeals has gone to right-wing groups. Nonetheless, Mrs. Clinton's camp already has begun to package Mr. Viguerie's work as evidence of a matorial alliance with the extreme right wing.
Mr. Giuliani's aides defend their fund-raising efforts, which hauled in $12 million last year, eclipsing Mrs. Clinton's total of $8 million. Mayoral advisers said their techniques are necessary to keep up with the formidable Mrs. Clinton, a national celebrity who enjoys the backing of the Clinton White House.
"Look," said one mayoral adviser, "this is a campaign where the rhetoric in fund raising is not always going to connect with the rhetoric at the top. [Mrs. Clinton's] mail is going to go out to every crackpot leftist and leftover commie in the world."
The adviser added that Mrs. Clinton's camp wasn't above gutter politics: "What they've done so far is to insult a lot of people in New York by calling Rudy supporters thugs and goons."
Indeed, one of Mrs. Clinton's fund-raising letters reads: "I haven't even announced my candidacy and already the divisive, negative Republican campaign has begun. Already, my potential opponent is attacking me almost daily."
Still, there's no question that Mr. Giuliani has strayed into alien territory by working with Mr. Viguerie and his army of donors. The Mayor, a Northeastern big-city moderate Republican, has often feuded with conservatives in his party, and he crossed party lines to endorse then-Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1994. Many insiders note that the Mayor is vulnerable to a third-party challenge from the state Conservative Party.
He's Got Mail
Mr. Viguerie's conservative credentials, however, are impeccable. His best direct-mail work stirs horrifying images of a left-wing takeover of the Federal Government. His marketing strategies helped launch the conservative revolution in the early 1960's, when he did mass mailings for Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. He raised cash for Wallace in the early 1970's, and helped organize Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority in the 1980's. He threw his direct-mail empire behind Mr. North, an insurgent candidate for Senate in Virginia, in 1994.
Mr. Viguerie has also done direct mail for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church-whose members he has described as "good, decent people who are strongly anticommunist."
The lists Mr. Viguerie apparently procured for Mr. Giuliani provide a glimpse into the intriguing world of the direct-mail magnate, who once reportedly likened the silent deadliness of his technique to a snake. Response Unlimited records offer detailed descriptions of each list, designed to promote them in the eyes of would-be buyers-such as the Giuliani campaign.
"Rush Limbaugh Power Tie Buyers," for example, are described as follows: "These individuals have shown a fierce loyalty to both good taste in fashion as well as being highly conservative politically. These folks will respond to appeals as well as conservative and political fund raising, subscription and book club offers."
"American Patriot Donors," meanwhile, "support … Oliver North, a strong national defense, veterans, less government, term limits, sending Bibles to Russia, pro-family as well as other patriotic and senior citizen causes."
Another list rented by the Giuliani campaign, according to the records, is the "Christian PAC Donors and Activists," which is described as "a political action committee that specifically helps Christian and pro-family candidates get elected to public office, and [worked] hard to see that Bill Clinton [was] impeached."
Then there is the "Religious Freedom Donors": "conservative individuals [who] have opened their checkbooks in an attempt to stop the censorship of religious expression and the public display of religion.… These grass roots Americans are concerned with issues such as private prayer in schools, the teaching of homosexual practices in public schools … and the growing assault on the family."
Meanwhile, the Giuliani campaign has rented a list of 6,000 names from English Language Advocates, a group that drafted a controversial initiative to make Arizona an English-only state, the group's development director, Phillips Hinch, told The Observer .
The Mayor's campaign also has enlisted other right-leaning list companies. According to campaign finance records, the campaign hired the Virginia-based RST Marketing, which is raising money for Gary Bauer, the social conservative who is seeking the Republican Presidential nomination. And the campaign has paid for the services of Pinnacle List Company, which offers lists such as the "Anti-Clinton Republican Revolutionaries" and names of those who have donated to "U.S. Border Control," a group whose Web site warns darkly of "the ethnic cleansing of European Americans."
Holly Ruble, the president of Pinnacle, declined to say which lists her company had rented to the Giuliani campaign.
Stealth Campaign
Political operatives agree that donor lists can be extremely effective. They enable a campaign to identify would-be donors far from home. The technique is almost impossible to trace. The names of targeted individuals who make a donation later pop up in Federal filings-but only as individual donors. The name of the donor list-the ideological grouping of givers-is not reflected in filings.
What's more, some lists cannot be traced to actual organizations; they are simply compilations of donors put together by people whose identities are cloaked in secrecy. Ms. Ruble, for instance, said that the "Anti-Clinton Republican Revolutionaries" was such a list, and that it had been pulled together by someone who wished to remain concealed.
Whatever the effectiveness of Mr. Giuliani's carpet-bombing of the right with direct mail, social conservatives may prove reluctant to shell out cash for someone who, from their point of view, is a big-city, pro-abortion pinko with a strange comb-over. Take, for instance, a man named William Murray, a Washington, D.C.-based social conservative who runs a campaign called "Anybody but Hillary." Mr. Murray told The Observer that he wouldn't even bother offering Mr. Giuliani his candidate questionnaire.
"He would not qualify for support from our [political action committee]," Mr. Murray said. "We cannot support Rudy Ghoul-iani."
Here is something the media is not saying about that incredibly nasty remark Hitlery Clinton made about assasinations, even if her claim that it was a "Freudian slip" is to be believed:
Does anyone want a person capable of such veiled threats in a position of sensitive negotiations or confrontations on a global level?
And we certainly don't want someone like that involved in the first nonwhite presidency in this country's history. We want to finally move beyond race, and the Clinton faction of the Democratic party will not allow that to happen.
There are those who have claimed that extremists like Wright in Obama's background mean that he, too, is racist, but I, as a "typical white person", beg to differ. The self-protective remarks made by preachers or leaders like Wright can be understood by every working-class white person as being the same kind of remarks our own leaders make at times of anger and frustration. Obama's claim that he was not paying close attention to the level of Wright's extremism rang true and authentic with me because I can easily think of lots of things my own Catholic priests have said over the years that most of their listeners chose to ignore. And when he stopped to take a close look, Obama did the right thing and everyone respects him for that.
We "typical white people" can count, too. All the brouhaha over that crazy radical former "weatherman" caused only one question in my mind: what about all the OTHER members of those boards on which both Obama and the old radical served? Hmm? What about the fact that it was briefly big news when that old radical and his wife, Bernadette Dorn, were exposed back in the nineties and no one seemed to care that they were on the same boards? (and there was that other WTC bombing around that time, remember?)
Working-class white folks are standing in the same food pantry lines as black folks, and we live in a lot of the same neighborhoods, and we recognize each other as neighbors. We survived Vietnam, some like me were there in the demonstrations, and we remember the leaflets from all the political factions, and some of us are embarrassed that we never believed the filth coming out of the genocidal factions, the hate-propelled splinter groups, would finally take root and bloom the way it has in the Clinton branch of the Democratic Party.
It is the yuppie suburban white folks, thosee Clintonites who are the arrogant college social-workers talking down to young mothers and the white teachers patronizing American-born students into dropping out of high-school rather than tolerate any more sexual political exploitation and disgusting bigotted psychobabble: it is they who support Hitlery Clinton, not us. They are the crazed left-fascist genocidal maniacs who are preparing to light the match on a "long hot summer" of violence that the Clintons think they will control and direct to their own ends. We are the working men and women who remember the diginity that won integration battles and the solidarity on the factory floor that prevencted slave-wage traditions from moving North with our Afro-American brothers and sisters. We are the victims of Hitlery Clinton's vicious political movement.
We look forward to Obama helping us take back the Democratic Party from the edge of the social-fascist abyss to which the Clintons and their delusional supporters have led us. Many of us have long memories and we will not allow that filthy Clinton-fascist faction of the Democratic party to highjack America into their own ends.
If only Obama would pre-empt Hitlery Clinton's delusions by announcing Edwards as his running mate, then we could look forward to peacefully winning the next election with a landslide that would leave the Republicans no ammo for challenge and the Clintonites' desire for violence would play itself out in a few isolated riotous demonstations and no real harm done. And plenty of room for good solid female leadership in his cabinet that will result in a future woman president, unrelated to the Clinton faction in any way.
Whoever Obama picks, DON'T let it be Clinton!!!!
