(l NP ) great speech Mr Obama

[Charles Albert]

Forget Kucinich or Moore......the guy you want to see in the WH is Alan
Grayson, congressman from Florida...

There's a guy who always leaves his house without his pencil.

love,
cfa

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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...
>
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