Category: Election 2012

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Warning to the Democrats and the undecided

I did not pen these words, but they are so true:

Let me warn you and let me warn the Nation against the smooth evasion which says, “Of course we believe all these things; we believe in social security; we believe in work for the unemployed; we believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things; but we do not like the way the present Administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them- we will do more of them we will do them better; and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything.”

But, my friends, these evaders are banking too heavily on the shortness of our memories. No one will forget that they had their golden opportunity—twelve long years of it.

Remember, too, that the first essential of doing a job well is to want to see the job done. Make no mistake about this: the Republican leadership today is not against the way we have done the job. The Republican leadership is against the job’s being done.

The most astonishing fact to  me is that this is from a Democratic Convention speech that Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered in 1936. And it still rings true today.

My warning is, beware of the republicans offerings when it comes to budget work. They don’t want to save Medicare. They want it to fail fast. They don’t want to spread financial opportunities across the population. They want to institute a class system akin to the old British system, with Lords and Dukes and other nobility. Not in title, but in practice. Bu having an elite of people who owns close to everything, means that the rest of the people will become vassals with no chance to move into the owning class.

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Obama pre-debate prep imagined

President Obama is sitting in the green room a few minutes before the debate is about to start. In there he is trying to focus on the debate, but many of the topics makes his head wander.

“So much has been happening lately. Being President means you never ever say you’re busy, because… Because you always are. And emergencies happen and look you up. Like the Libya killings. Not only did it hurt on a personal level, we almost messed it up politically as well. Oh, my mind is wandering again. Back to the debate.”

At this time the First Lady walks into the room. She sits down beside him and puts a small box with ribbons on it. She motions for him to open it.

– “For me?” he asks smiling slightly. “From you?”

She nods with an expectant look on her face.

– “What can it be,” he says to himself as he opens the gift. He peers inside. “A wristwatch. What for?”

– “Happy anniversary, babe,” she says as she learns forward and kisses him on the cheek.

– “Oh yes, of course!” he says. He smiles at her, but he knows that it’s not his confident smile, but rather his caught off guard, defensive smile. And he knows that she knows. She gets up and walks to the door. Before she leaves she turns around.

– “I’ll be in the audience.”

From that point on, all he can think about is “how can I make this up to her.”

 

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What does $50,000.00 give you?

It either gives you a median income for a family in the United States of America. Or it gives you a seat at a Romney fundraiser.

I’m not surprised at Mitt Romney’s comment at the now famous private fundraiser. What I’m surprised about is that very little has been made of the fact that each of the clients at the fundraiser paid $50,000.00. Roughly the same amount that half of US families earn less than. The median family income in 2011 was just above $51,000.00. Are you surprised that these very rich people cannot fathom what matters to the large majority of wage slaves. Or wish-they-could-be wage slaves as the case may be.