I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more!
Here's a thought...
don't get mad don't get even kick their butt and race across the finish line first.
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Fundraising efforts end Sunday at midnight. Help us with:
* Financial Assistance for ALL PUMAs for Denver. We are OVERWHELMED with requests for help - most of it less than $100 each. (gas, real food, air miles, travel vouchers, etc.) * Shuttle vans to get Pumas back and forth across Denver * Cases of water for thirsty Pumas * Walkie-talkies for coordinators to keep Pumas connected and safe * A case of plastic Puma whistles to hand out to Pumas * 1,000 Orange Puma balloons with our logo for the Headquarters and the Beautiful Protest and Rise on August 25th * Banners and signs for Pumas to carry * Markers, staplers, posterboard, strapping, cups, plates, napkins * Tables, chairs, extension cords, power strips * Cases of snacks for hungry Pumas * Full Color Puma PAC Posters and Flyers to plaster around Denver all week * And much more!
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But then we realized - America has been dumbed down to the level of American Idol. You are old, over the hill, stupid, worthless unless you can yell and scream and clap for your favorite hyped up "idol".
George W. Bush is responsible for a lot of this. If someone who looked and acted and thought like Alfred E. Newman could not blow us up in 8 long long long years, then BO couldn't be "that" bad.
Oh. What ever happened to experience?
http://asx.ljcentral.net/mp3/e... More downloading options (dialup, mac) or stream it here: http://www.larouchepub.com/rad...
I just downloaded it (took less than 5 minutes at about double dialup speed)...
There will be a full roll call vote. Michelle explains what she's doing and why. Including rules and history. Including fact that Howard Dean's name was in when he was a candidate ... and now he wants/wanted to deny HALF of all the Dem primary voters in this primary a voice in the convention.
This petition process started by Hillary's delegates themselves who read the rules and saw a petition could force Dean to do his job. Michelle volunteered to help them... Grassroots. No contact with Hillary's organization. Had to google to find delegates phone numbers... Got about 80% of them. Call them to inform them Howard Dean trying to subvert the process, prevent roll call vote from happening. Many delegates didn't know of this. Inform them of the petition...
This is first election Michelle has been politically active in. She explains how she got involved this time, ... starting back around January, she saw from unfair media coverage and other things that something was very wrong with this election... she'd never read blogs before... she found "hundreds and hundreds" of people who were undergoing the same experience as her...
(Well, that's 11 minutes into an hour show. I type far too slowly to be doing this. Links above. Enjoy. I'm going to listen to the remainder of the show without typing.)
I couldn't help but type listening to the rest of the above show. Helps me to focus. After reading Hopscotch's comment below, I've decided to post it, because it tends to answer the questions (which I've put in bold to that end). Kind of a rough transcript. My additions in square brackets. Sorry for length, won't make it a habit.
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Michelle is a photographer in L.A. doing this thing out of her apartment. "We can't risk 4 more years. People are hurting." (34 minutes. Michelle off. Host talks with LPAC street organizers...)
Grand Lake theater marquee... (I missed it. Maybe someone in the Bay area knows...) Soros money destroyed campaign of Hillary, corrupted the Party.
SF, East Bay... Obama ex-supporters waking up. "Oh. That's what's going on..." People smelling something... they smell the smoke, but don't know where the fire is.
Problem: cynicism, some think there's nothing can be done about it. Transforming from just being upset about the subversion of the process to doing something about it.
1932... FDR... Lessons for Denver. Trying to keep a candidate who has a plan for the economy out of the process. This is something that happened before; not happening now just because Hillary is a woman.
1989 (phone connex bad) People need to understand how the nation's powerhouse development was stopped after WWII. Intentional destruction of our productive economy.
Obama put up as candidate to thug-out discussion of issues.
People need bigger picture-goal and method of organizing. Town-hall mtgs on day of convention opening:
In Bay Area. Town Hall Mtg Monday, Aug. 25 at women's Bldg., Mission District. 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. 510.599.1776
Next day - a march, being organized by the 18 million Voices from the Ferry Bldg to the UN Plaza. Rally at UN Plaza (town hall meeting in the street)
"What's going to happen in Denver?" No one knows at this point. In last 2-3 day's we've seen Dean-Obama forced to concede they couldn't just leave out more than half of the Dem primary voters from the process.
Important to realize that this is not happening in a vacuum. We almost had an outbreak of WWIII the other day. Most people don't realize that the govt of Georgia is almost a wholly-owned subsidiary of George Soros' "Open Society" (lots of material at their website, larouchepac.com, on this) . Their financial system that keeps them alive (as she put it) is coming to an end. They are willing to do just about anything to try to keep it alive, including destroying any sort of FDR tradition in the United States.
If people are clear on that, if people are clear on the overall world situation, on how these operations are being run, and if we organize from that standpoint, then we'll win.
Michelle Thomas raised the point, "Where are the leaders?" We saw in the situation in Russia and Georgia that Putin and M did not play by the rules that were set by the BE [those who created and therefore control Soros]. Similarly, President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton did not accept the rules laid down by Soros' puppet Howard Dean.
In both cases, we have seen a change in the overall strategic geometry. Now the other active ingredient which has to be fully visible, between not just now and the opening of the convention, but beyond that, is we have to have a mass movement, a movement of leaders [not only national but like Michelle] of people from [e.g. heavily including] the lower 80% of family-income brackets, who bring us back to the traditions of Franklin Roosevelt. We need the policies [and principles] to be put forth and we need to see if there is a candidate who will rise to the occasion.
What happens in Denver will reflect this, but there is no way to predict how this will happen.
What we do know is that Michelle and her group will continue their mobilization, LPAC will continue their mobilization to destroy George Soros and everything he represents, including using Obama as a hand grenade to blow up the Democratic Party.
Watch their website and they'll be back with another show 3:00 EST next Sat. END
I was banned from Riverdaughter's for comments like this... maybe 1/5 of my comments referred to lpac's work, but they'd "gotten complaints" or somesuch. (So if Allegre starts "getting complaints," she can blame Kim for telling me to look elsewhere to post "my politics." Heh.)
To be fair, Kim was nice enough to reply to my e-mail asking why my comments were disappearing into the digital ether. She kicks ass in Denver and gets Hillary nominated, I'll send her a dozen roses.
Really. Go to www.larouchepac.com and watch some of the videos. Firewall, 1932, Soros, take your pick. If you can't find something well worth your time there, I'll send you a dozen roses.
Well, ...if I win a lottery.
Till then...
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Since Bush came into office fraudulently, IMO, mocked democracy, the rule of law and melded the branches of government which caused so much anger, the Democrats decided they needed to play hardball this time around. What the dems did wrong was pander to the radical left and ignored the moderates to grow voters. If they hadn't committed so much fraud, used sexism, racism etc., and found a more experienced candidate than Obama I don't think the dems would be so fractured. They had the perfect candidate, Hillary, but succumbed to the right wing talking points which the far left used also against the Clintons.
Add the money factor, the power factor and the corporations influence which is more this cycle than any other primary I recall and we have chaos in the Dem party. Too much greed, power hungry angry people with poor leadership like Dean and Pelosi and the kids are louder and drowned out the voices of wisdom and reason like Hillary and older voters.
But that's all in cyberspace. I think the majority of Americans who do not blog don't have a clue of most of what we have learned about Obama and all the drama surrounding it. I also think Obama will lose because most of Americans are moderates and will vote accordingly and this time around we need centrists in the WH. I also don't think having DEMS majority in congress and senate and white house is a good thing so McCain as POTUS who is a centrist with Dems in majority of Congress and Senate may be the way to go for the next 4 years to get the country back on an even keel. If the country swings way left after having been way right the whole country will literally flip into a bigger mess. That's my observation.
WTF? I hate this. Do we have to have a "Deal"? Is this Democracy? How about just having a straight-up delegate roll-call and whomever wins is President! This is the only scenario I can accept.
I will be tempted to post this comment again if I see an appropriate thread.
