(l NP ) great speech Mr Obama

[Michael Bailey]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:46 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Healthcare reform? Financial reform?  The stock market soared after both these "reforms" were enacted. Whew, close one!
>

ok, I personally wouldn't miss the stock market in my ideal
anarcho-syndicalist workers' paradise - I really wouldn't... an ASWP
with a kickass safety net like, it's understood that if you're a
person you will need to have housing, school and medical treatment of
your choice (including, but not limited to, homeopathy) and therefore,
without quarrels, things are organized so as to make that happen: an
understanding that the purpose of enterprise is to supply these needs
would be much stronger and more widespread

 ... to me that would be worth giving up the transcendent pleasure of
having more billionaires to pay more pundits to tell us ad nauseam how
great the free enterprise system is while the government protects
their holdings which quite often proceed out of government contracts
and largesse in the first place...

but still, having the stock market soar isn't a completely bad thing is it?


> Obama seems to have a deep-seated need for Republican approval.  Now, even he must realize how badly he's bungled everything.  Propping up the insurance companies and banks, sending troops to Afghanistan, speaking in favor of offshore drilling (he was called on that one!), and, even worse, presiding over the rise of a right-wing, racist faux-populist movement and being unwilling to counter it with a shred of genuine populist legislation.  Sure, he's got a lovely family and looks good in a suit.  I'd rather have Michael Moore or Dennis Kucinich or Al Sharpton.
>

Kucinich, yes, he's even more like Piggy in the blowing the conch
shell department.  Michael Moore, yeah, what the heck is keeping him
from getting into politics?  And Al Sharpton looks good in a suit too,
and I seem to recall him deliverinig a humdinger of a stemwinder at
some place and time - was it the 2008 Democratic Convention? - and
he'd be great in the Oval Office...