From: "brembelia2004" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: November 6, 2008 9:31:46 PM PST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [BushShouldHaveBeenImpeached] On Counting Chickens:
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I am a life long FDR Democrat and as much as I want to let myself soar
on the wings of an
historic win, my insides counsel me to caution. I am going to hold off
on any judgment
regarding PE Obama and what his presidency is going to mean.
PE Obama says he wants to knit the tattered and weary threads of Right
to Left and move
us forward as a unified America, but he is mending with those very
people who would see
the American dream dead, the American people in economic slavery, and
America as a
third-world manufacturing ghetto from coast to coast.
The Clintons both graduated law school as "corporate lawyers" and the
Clinton
administration, even though it ran on an FDR promise, not only
funneled more money up
than down, it was responsible for killing off the last three vestiges
of the New Deal in the
Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Welfare Reform Act, and the
Campaign Finance
Reform Act. (Bill also plays golf with the Bush's on a regular basis
while Hillary had lunch
with Karl Rove in the White House in November of 2006, prompting my
inner self to ask,
"what kind of 'Democrats' do this?" knowing full well that the Bushes
and Karl Rove are no
Eisenhower Republicans.)
Now PE Obama is embracing not only the Clintons but the Clinton
machinery.
Rahm Emanuel inherited Terry McAuliffe's corporately funded campaign
contacts and thus
Emanuel became the cash conduit between K Street and the Beltway
Insiders.
Howard Dean (a true American hero) took over the DNC and came up with
the ingenious
idea of small donations from grassroots supporters while solidifying
an internet
community bent on ousting the Bush/corporate regime.
This created two campaign funding camps inside the Democratic Party:
(1) The corporately
funded, corporately owned Democratic Beltway Insiders, and (2) the DNC
which
represented the grassroots, small donations of the internet and
working classes.
At one point Emanuel together with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) demanded
that Chairman
Dean hand over the DNC's grassroots coffer to further fund Beltway
Insider senate races
for Congress, but Chairman Dean was committed to a vision of a 50
state change in this
country and told Emanuel and Schumer, "No". (Dean wasn't going to get
hustled by a
couple of Republicans in drag.) These two camps existed until PE Obama
consolidated
them for the `08 run.
No doubt, in trying to bring all of the corners together, PE Obama
will have to make
concessions. He already has. He voted for the FISA bill allowing
criminals and corporations
to get a free pass and go unpunished for illegal wiretapping and
invasion of emails
without warrants from the FISA Court. This flies in the face of the
ninth and tenth
amendments to the Constitution which specifically limits the federal
government with
regard our rights to privacy, together with the Bill of Rights, even
though PE Obama is a
Constitutional lawyer and taught Constitutional law for twelve years.
PE Obama also weighed in on the $700B dollar "bailout" with a "no
strings attached" boon
for Henry Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury (a collection of 12
regional/main banks
privately owned with a quasi-relationship to the US govenment), which
has amounted to
little more than an all out gift to the banking/insurance/investment
giants who have been
terrorizing us through premeditated inflation for years, all paid for
by you and me when
the math demonstrates that we would have had better results by handing
every adult
citizen of the US a stimulus check for a quarter of a million
dollars... that would surely
have paid off mortgages, loans and credit card debt. PE Obama espouses
bubble-up
economy, but when the opportunity presented itself, it was a status
quo freebie for the
rich-and-corporate one more time. What's up with that?
Meanwhile, Mike Duncan, head of the RNC, told the National Press Club
the other day that
he has instructed the Republican minions to play ball with PE Obama
just as long as PE
Obama is playing puppet for them, but to not support PE Obama if he
should try to leave
the reservation without permission. Boy, does that ever sound like
Clinton with Greenspan
and Rubin three days after Clinton took office! I hope PE Obama isn't
left holding his quid
pro quo's all by himself after the Rights get everything they want
from him.
It all boils down to: We the People have to make a choice. A choice
about fundamental
premise: Either we are going to be ruled by private corporations who
answer only to
themselves and their own greed, or we are going to choose to live
under the rule of law
and have a government that answers up to We the People every four years.
We must have some basic operating model upon which to hang the fabric
of society and
these are the options. Either we rule ourselves through an elected
government that we
control, or we hand over our resources and rights to private
corporations whose Sun Tsu,
Art of War mindset will siphon off everything then tell us "you're on
your own". This isn't
some premise or theory. We've seen this up close and personal already.
These crazies
want to lay claim to everything to include making it unlawful to
collect rainwater for
drinking water to holding all patents on the DNA of all vegetation to
holding patents on
YOUR DNA.
Under the private corporations we will give everything and get nothing
in return because
corporations are greedy little men behind deceitful curtains of
unconscionable self-
interest (thank you Margaret Thatcher). Or we are going to choose to
live as one people
under law, sharing the good with the difficult, operating within The
Commons, sharing and
serving each other as we ourselves would like to be served, forever
free because we can
vote out transgressors, and having laws and a government that protects
us from the
vagaries of big business and the robber barons.
I don't know what PE Obama has in mind. We all will have to wait to
see where this is
going. What I do know is that PE Obama is only going to be given a
handful of
opportunities to make some very bold moves if he truly intends the
fundamental change
that we need. And, if he does not avail himself of these
opportunities, America will drag on
for years mired down in the garbage we saw pouring out of the 109th
and 110th
Congresses: A sickening combination of cowardice, self-interest,
corporate bloat and
coverup, on all sides, as the beltway insiders scramble to hang onto
the golden goose of
power and wealth, forever at our expense.
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