PEOPLE! WAKE UP AND SMELL THE STINK
If we want more of what we have had for the past 15 years, all we need to do is nominate Hillary Clinton to run against John McCain. Election of either of these candidates assures that business as usual will continue.
If we want real change, we have the opportunity for that in Barack Obama. But to realize this chance, we have to repudiate the smear tactics now in full force against him. We have repeatedly allowed ourselves to be influenced by rumors and gossip. Remember the attacks and accusations - against John McCain in the 2000 primary and against John Kerry in the 2004 election, just to name two – that manipulated voters even though the so called facts were patently false? We are way past the “fool me twice” stage and into the “now we’re just plain stupid” stage if we let this happen again.
The Washington insiders were caught off-guard by Obama’s ability to raise huge amounts from small donors thereby avoiding the usual octopus grip special interests have on potential candidates. As reported by Robert Parry on Consortiumnews.com:
This spreading realization that Obama’s political movement might represent a more revolutionary change than previously understood is sparking a deepening resistance among defenders of the status quo – and prompting harsher attacks on Obama… lobbies – from AIPAC to representatives of military and other industries (realize)… It’s in their direct interest to dent Obama’s momentum and demoralize his rank-and-file supporters as soon as possible….So, neoconservatives and other ideological movements – heavily dependent on grants from the same special interests – are now joining with the Clinton campaign to tear down Obama by depicting him as unpatriotic, un-vetted, possibly a “closet Muslim.”(Read entire article at http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/022608.html )
It is up to the American people to let the power brokers know that it will not work this time; that we do not want them to control our elected officials; that we have had our fill of dirty tricks, dirty politics and the greed that is destroying our country from within.
If you need more convincing about the strangle-hold these people have on our lives, take a few minutes to read some of the following articles that deal with the causes and effects of the current housing crisis, our failing economy, and incompetent and corrupt government agencies.
http://www.solari.com/blog/?p=501 Where’s the Money? Let’s Get It Back!
http://www.whereisthemoney.org/S00223_collateral.htm Where’s The Collateral?
http://whereisthemoney.org/collateral_II.htm So, where is the collateral?
http://www.dunwalke.com/gideon/privatization030402.html Transcript:Greg Palast interview by Alex Jones
We cannot afford to be willfully uninformed. The future of our country depends on us.