I know it, Barack, you just can't win lately. You stand up for Wright and you get slammed, you renounce him and you get slammed. You're sounding like it's really getting to you, which is only human, which means you've got to fall back to the plan. Why you are doing this.
The pundits and networks are trying to Dean-Scream you with this Wright thing. Pretty amazing, isn't it? The guy says the US has killed innocent civilians and everyone acts shocked. Wright could have put it differently, but you mean to tell me thousands of Iraqi civilians haven't been killed by US bombs and firing into cars at checkpoints? But you're trying to win an election, and that's a downer.
That means, to stop from veering off in all directions, giving a history lesson on one hand and telling white America they're not all evil on the other, you need to pull back to message. You need to say, Look, this is what always happens whenever someone gets too close to the real problem, the disappearance of the middle-class and all the bridges that used to let Americans go from one class to another, just working hard and not needing to be a financial genius.
Bridges like college affordability and worker training. They want to get your minds off the fact that your jobs went overseas or to Mexico, and even if your kids are bright and have the grades they probably can't afford their first-choice college. They want you to forget that a very small number of people have benefited from the lion's share of tax breaks while you can still barely make ends meet.
So here's what you do, Barack. They'll work the social divisions like always, whether it's gay marriage, abortion, or school prayer, unless you show that poor black people and poor white people have more in common than they have dividing them, which is why the billionaires running the networks are trying to stop this Obama phenomenon. Anyone who says, "We have to disaggregate tax policy between the wealthy and the working class or middle class," like you did, is dangerous. Because once you touch on the idea that the interests of the very rich might not be the interests of everyone, well hell, everything that keeps them getting richer no matter what happens might come crashing down.
Do what you do best, which is thinking and uniting. And not by tearing old Jeremiah a new one - yes, he should have shut up after you asked him to, when you explained to him that people can't handle too much truth at once. The last guy who tried that got nailed to a cross. I mean Wright didn't have to say 9/11 was "payback," that's a little harsh, but you mean the CIA didn't overthrow the democratic president of Iran, Mossadeq, in 1953? And install the bloody Shah, which led to the Iranian Revolution and furthered Middle East extremism? Give me a break.
You need to pull out of this nosedive where the talkingheads are, AGAIN, going to snooker people into voting against their own interest, for a woman whose husband fairly personified NAFTA and all those other free trade agreements which they lied would help everyone, but were really aimed at their fat-cat businessman contributors. Sure, that was Bill, but Hillary, as a co-equal like she always says, said not one word against those agreements when she could have politely disagreed with her husband, the way even Laura disagrees with George about some things.
You need to announce the American First Choice College Initiative. (AMFCHOICE? Help me out here.) You've got to think big or media hyenas will keep circling and tearing of little pieces out of you.
The idea is, in the first 100 days of an Obama administration, any American student will have the funds to go to the best school he or she can get into, or wants to go to, from the Opportunity Fund. Max-out what a poor or middle-class parent will pay, and Uncle Sam takes care of the rest. In one very real, concrete way Obama is REBUILDING the bridges to the middle-class.
No kid should have to go to Iraq for college money. The dirty little secret is, over the past 25 years, fewer and fewer kids have been able to afford their first choice college.
Here's the kicker: It's financially do-able. Since you're getting us out of a Iraq, like you said in your Superbowl ad, that $100 billion or so we spend every year could go to this program. Joe Stiglitz calls this the $3 trillion war. "Unmet college need," a rough measure of what this program would cost, runs at about $30 billion a year. Do you know how many times $30 bill fits into $3 trill? You don't want to know. Put your numbers crunchers on it, the guys you pay, and they should be able to come up a some good estimates in under 24 hours. It isn't rocket science. It's arithmetic. $100 billion minus $30 billion leaves enough for 3 more years. Kill that idiotic Star Wars, and we've got the money forever.
Here's your sticker, I want credit:
Obama: Building Bridges, Uniting Americans
Make them forget that your black, and that they're white, and make them remember we're all in this together. And if you really use this idea, I want a job.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, Call to Demand Impeachment
When legal immigration activists light up congressmens' lines on May 1 for legal immigration and against the globalists' plans to erase the borders between anything except Citibank and B of A, why stop there? Let's light them up for impeachment too.
The fact of the matter is that impeachment hearings are in the hands of about 20 Republicans in the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, where the latest resolution against Dick Cheney, who comes first, is bottled up.
Not giving a good g.d. if they sell the country down the river to the highest globalist bidders dreaming of football fields-wide NAFTA superhighways, not caring if half the U.S. debt is controlled by China, a country which makes no bones about its plans to bury us and become the century's new superpower, George Bush and Dick Cheney are sure that, with maybe a few bombs thrown at Iran somewhere down the line for a "war president" booster shot, they can get out of office scot-free.
But as the clock runs down, more states are starting impeachment measures using "Jefferson's Manual," a parliamentary tactic which bypasses a do-nothing Congress, and directs impeachment hearings to begin upon passage of a resolution by a single state legislature. It's as if the Founders saw a day when Congress could become every bit as isolated and unresponsive as the president, and not give a good g.d. about the country either.
Why keep at it? Besides the arguments that only impeachment will do for the most law-breaking administration in American history, including Richard Nixon's, I recently was given a few more when I found myself in the same room and at the same lunch table with one Dr. Daniel Ellsberg.
Remember, even Nixon never dreamed of holding and torturing American citizens as "enemy combatants," or bragging that he had ordered illegal spying, or started a war on a country which had not attacked us while throwing open the borders so that people who might could slip in.
Lot's of folks don't really know what Dr. Ellsberg did besides leak the Pentagon Papers, which Nixon didn't like. What the Papers showed was that the generals were fighting a war they privately believed could not be won, and were throwing more peoples' sons into the meat-grinder. At the time, Ellsberg was ready to go to jail for violating his security clearance, and he fully expected he would spend the rest of his life there for stepping forward.
The NSA now has the authority to listen to anyone, anytime, without a warrant, in the name of the war on terror. This includes journalists, ALIPAC activists, plumbers, lawyers, and congressmen. Ellsberg said congressmen and journalists are for sure being listened to, then the rest of us depending on who we are or what we do. As part of the Executive Branch, NSA information is a new form of power available to that Branch, not just to the president.
Ellsberg said that if this power stands, then whatever we will be living under, it will not be democracy. That kind of power belonged to the East German Stasi or the KGB. It doesn't belong in America.
Ellsberg also said that impeachment hearings before Bush-Cheney leave office may be our only chance to roll this power back. That's because it will be hard for Bush to claim "executive privilege" during impeachment hearings. That would just make things worse for him, with shades of Watergate. In other words, without finding out what the NSA has actually been doing, who among Americans it has been listening to and who is getting the information, it will be impossible to stop it, because you can't stop what you don't know. Once Bush-Cheney leave office, the strong "discovery" process of impeachment will not be available. That's because we can't impeach a new president who didn't give the original order.
Ellsberg said new presidents, no matter what party they are, will not throw their hands over their ears and say, no, I don't want to hear this about my enemy, when they are being told something obtained through the NSA. That's just not in a president's nature.
The NSA has technology the Stasi could only dream of. I personally believe it is possible that Bush has something on almost every one of these congressmen right now, and that's why they won't impeach despite their clear duty and enormous pressure. This May 1st, as you are calling your own congressmen, call these Republicans on Judiciary too. They are the key. Most Democratic congressmen have shown that they believe in nothing except the kind of rich campaign contributors who are behind NAFTA, China imports for Wal-Mart, and continuing the war in Iraq with our kids, not theirs. Perhaps among Republicans another conservative of conscience, like Barry Goldwater, will step forward.
want to do more? Here is a list of the top campaign contributors for these reps. Give them an ear full too, demand "not one more penny to these guys until impeachment, or face boycott!" - or whatever you want to say.)
Letter to Republican Members of Judiciary, and Impeachment Articles.
Last, first name, state, PHONE (first #) / FAX (second #)
Conyers, Jr., John D-MI 202-225-5126 / FAX 202-225-0072 (Chairman)
Smith, Lamar, R-TX 202-225-4236 / FAX 202-225-8628
Franks, Trent, R-AL 202-225-4576 / FAX 202-225-6328
Gallegly, Elton, R-CA 202-225-3065 / FAX 202-225-1100
Lungren, Daniel, R-CA 202-225-571 / FAX 202-226-1298
Issa, Darrell, R-CA 202-225-3906 / FAX 202-225-3303
Feeney, Tom, R- FL 202-225-2706 / FAX 202.226.6299
Keller, Ric, R-FL 202-225-2176 / FAX 202-225-0999
Pence, Mike, R-IN 202-225-3021 / FAX 202-225-3382
King, Steve, R-IA 202-225-4426 / FAX 202.225.3193
Coble, Howard, R-NC 202-225-3065 / FAX 202-225-8611
Chabot, Steve, R-OH 202-225-2216 / FAX 202-225-3012
Jordan, Jim, R-OH 202-225-2676 / FAX 202-226-0577
Gohmert, Louie R-TX 202-225-3035 / FAX 202-226-1230
Cannon, Chris, R-UT 202-225-7751 / FAX 202-225-5629
Forbes, J. Randy, R-VA 202-225-6365 / FAX 202-226-1170
Goodlatte, Bob, R-VA 202-225-5431 / FAX 202-225-9681
Sensenbrenner Jr., James, R-WI 202-225-5101 / FAX 202-225-3190
The fact of the matter is that impeachment hearings are in the hands of about 20 Republicans in the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, where the latest resolution against Dick Cheney, who comes first, is bottled up.
Not giving a good g.d. if they sell the country down the river to the highest globalist bidders dreaming of football fields-wide NAFTA superhighways, not caring if half the U.S. debt is controlled by China, a country which makes no bones about its plans to bury us and become the century's new superpower, George Bush and Dick Cheney are sure that, with maybe a few bombs thrown at Iran somewhere down the line for a "war president" booster shot, they can get out of office scot-free.
But as the clock runs down, more states are starting impeachment measures using "Jefferson's Manual," a parliamentary tactic which bypasses a do-nothing Congress, and directs impeachment hearings to begin upon passage of a resolution by a single state legislature. It's as if the Founders saw a day when Congress could become every bit as isolated and unresponsive as the president, and not give a good g.d. about the country either.
Why keep at it? Besides the arguments that only impeachment will do for the most law-breaking administration in American history, including Richard Nixon's, I recently was given a few more when I found myself in the same room and at the same lunch table with one Dr. Daniel Ellsberg.
Remember, even Nixon never dreamed of holding and torturing American citizens as "enemy combatants," or bragging that he had ordered illegal spying, or started a war on a country which had not attacked us while throwing open the borders so that people who might could slip in.
Lot's of folks don't really know what Dr. Ellsberg did besides leak the Pentagon Papers, which Nixon didn't like. What the Papers showed was that the generals were fighting a war they privately believed could not be won, and were throwing more peoples' sons into the meat-grinder. At the time, Ellsberg was ready to go to jail for violating his security clearance, and he fully expected he would spend the rest of his life there for stepping forward.
The NSA now has the authority to listen to anyone, anytime, without a warrant, in the name of the war on terror. This includes journalists, ALIPAC activists, plumbers, lawyers, and congressmen. Ellsberg said congressmen and journalists are for sure being listened to, then the rest of us depending on who we are or what we do. As part of the Executive Branch, NSA information is a new form of power available to that Branch, not just to the president.
Ellsberg said that if this power stands, then whatever we will be living under, it will not be democracy. That kind of power belonged to the East German Stasi or the KGB. It doesn't belong in America.
Ellsberg also said that impeachment hearings before Bush-Cheney leave office may be our only chance to roll this power back. That's because it will be hard for Bush to claim "executive privilege" during impeachment hearings. That would just make things worse for him, with shades of Watergate. In other words, without finding out what the NSA has actually been doing, who among Americans it has been listening to and who is getting the information, it will be impossible to stop it, because you can't stop what you don't know. Once Bush-Cheney leave office, the strong "discovery" process of impeachment will not be available. That's because we can't impeach a new president who didn't give the original order.
Ellsberg said new presidents, no matter what party they are, will not throw their hands over their ears and say, no, I don't want to hear this about my enemy, when they are being told something obtained through the NSA. That's just not in a president's nature.
The NSA has technology the Stasi could only dream of. I personally believe it is possible that Bush has something on almost every one of these congressmen right now, and that's why they won't impeach despite their clear duty and enormous pressure. This May 1st, as you are calling your own congressmen, call these Republicans on Judiciary too. They are the key. Most Democratic congressmen have shown that they believe in nothing except the kind of rich campaign contributors who are behind NAFTA, China imports for Wal-Mart, and continuing the war in Iraq with our kids, not theirs. Perhaps among Republicans another conservative of conscience, like Barry Goldwater, will step forward.
want to do more? Here is a list of the top campaign contributors for these reps. Give them an ear full too, demand "not one more penny to these guys until impeachment, or face boycott!" - or whatever you want to say.)
Letter to Republican Members of Judiciary, and Impeachment Articles.
Last, first name, state, PHONE (first #) / FAX (second #)
Conyers, Jr., John D-MI 202-225-5126 / FAX 202-225-0072 (Chairman)
Smith, Lamar, R-TX 202-225-4236 / FAX 202-225-8628
Franks, Trent, R-AL 202-225-4576 / FAX 202-225-6328
Gallegly, Elton, R-CA 202-225-3065 / FAX 202-225-1100
Lungren, Daniel, R-CA 202-225-571 / FAX 202-226-1298
Issa, Darrell, R-CA 202-225-3906 / FAX 202-225-3303
Feeney, Tom, R- FL 202-225-2706 / FAX 202.226.6299
Keller, Ric, R-FL 202-225-2176 / FAX 202-225-0999
Pence, Mike, R-IN 202-225-3021 / FAX 202-225-3382
King, Steve, R-IA 202-225-4426 / FAX 202.225.3193
Coble, Howard, R-NC 202-225-3065 / FAX 202-225-8611
Chabot, Steve, R-OH 202-225-2216 / FAX 202-225-3012
Jordan, Jim, R-OH 202-225-2676 / FAX 202-226-0577
Gohmert, Louie R-TX 202-225-3035 / FAX 202-226-1230
Cannon, Chris, R-UT 202-225-7751 / FAX 202-225-5629
Forbes, J. Randy, R-VA 202-225-6365 / FAX 202-226-1170
Goodlatte, Bob, R-VA 202-225-5431 / FAX 202-225-9681
Sensenbrenner Jr., James, R-WI 202-225-5101 / FAX 202-225-3190
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