Clinton and Obama -- The Worst and Best Thing to Happen to the Democratic Party in Years

Bill Clinton was the worst thing to happen to the Democratic Party and to progressives since that racist warmonger Woodrow Wilson won the presidency and dragged the U.S. into the utterly pointless and incredibly bloody First World War.

Clinton, by posing as a progressive, confused and undermined, and ultimately betrayed the liberal/progressive wing of the party, shattering what was left of the New Deal coalition and leaving the American left adrift and riven by the conflict between those who thought the Democratic Party was the only viable vehicle for progressive reform and those who thought it was hopelessly in the grip of corporate interests.

Barack Obama offers the hope of bringing that era of debilitating confusion to an end.

Not because he is the Great Black Hope of progressives, but because he has taken the concept of selling out to corporate interests and compromising with Republicans to such remarkable heights that progressives hopefully can no longer be confused about the irretrievably corrupted nature of the Democratic Party.

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Last fall, I and many progressives urged voters to elect Obama, not because we thought he was a progressive, but because we hoped that his background -- community organizer, raised by a single mother, experience living in a third world country (Indonesia), multi-racial -- would lead him to make at least some right decisions. We, or certainly I, hoped too that the energized young and working class electorate that came out for him in the fall would continue to press him aggressively to do the right thing on war, environment, civil liberties, and the economy.

I was wrong on the first count: Obama has been a corporatist through and through on all the major issues that matter. And I was wrong on the second. Most of the left in the U.S., from the labor movement to the environmentalist movement to the anti-war movement, has to date remained glumly quiescent as Obama has sold them out on each of their key issues.

But here is the silver lining: The sellout this time is so much more blatant, and so much more serious, than it was with Clinton, and for all the talk about Obama's ability to string words together, he is so much less of a charismatic figure than the gregarious Bill Clinton, that he is unlikely to hang on to the ardent support that propelled him to his victory last November. The disappointment and sense of betrayal among progressives this time is palpable, especially because, while Clinton, by 1994, had the excuse that he was working with a Republican, or partially Republican Congress, Obama has solid control of both houses, but refuses to use it. If, as I expect, the recession continues to deepen, with more and more people losing jobs and homes, if, as I predict, health care continues to be unaffordable and inaccessible, if, as I know will happen, evidence of deadly climate change continues to pile up, and if, as I am equally certain, Iraq explodes and the war in Afghanistan continue to worsen, the left is going to see Obama and the Democrats in Congress as the failures and corrupt frauds they are, and will abandon them.

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Marxism is starting to make sense

I always wondered, why is Marxism demonized and considered an evil economic system? Marxism is totally against the exploitation of the masses by the dominate class. Capitalism, on the other hand, is the direct opposite, it's an economic system in which the business and wealth of a country is contolled by a few, the dominate class. Capitalism is now the dominate economic system around the world where most of the worlds wealth and resources are being controlled by a few. Kathy Fisher over at Unkwown News wrote a good article in which she says the following:

The capitalists are never dying to be rich, they let other people's children do the dying for them. The same way they hire slave labor to do the hardest dirtiest work, then they clame the fruits of someone else's labor. They will tout that if not for them there would be no jobs for people to go to. They steal the land, they steal the money, and then they grab a nation's people by the balls.

Many people will point to the old Soviet Union and it's failures as a reason to reject Marxism and support Capitalism but Ms. Fisher has a different take on that:

These idiots that thought the old Soviet Union was true communism and Marxisn were dead wrong. Once again they had the masses brainwashed. Just because their leaders let a stature of Marx stand in the town square! That doesn't mean shit.

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Putin embraces capitalism. The truth is the Soviet Union leaders were always Closet Capitalists. Not a Marxist or communist among them. They ruled with an iron fist. They forced a set of rules on the people they themselves would never live by. They sold the people a pack of lies. It was all a charade and they had their people imprissoned. I ask you, would a Marxist communist country have a media that was catered to, given the best apartments the highest salaries (Pravda)? Just like our media is. Of course not.

She goes on further to write about the downside of Capitalism by saying the following:

Ultra rich and dirt poor, you have to be kidding me! And nothing in between, and that's exactly where our leaders have taken us. That's NOT Marxism.

Unionized societies are hated by CAPITALISTS. The Capitalist's motto is Don't love your brother, take his job, take his oil, take his country as if it was your God given right. Our leaders lied to the people to when they constantly said 'We are fighting Communism.'' That was pure Bullshit! They were stealing and plundering other countries' resources and using its people for slaves of their new stolen empires. Cruel Business as Usual. The French and the Dutch did the same thing. In the name of GREED and Capitalism.

Now they lie again and say they are fight TERRORISM. No, it's more conquest. More stealing other nations resources. It's capitalism with a big jackbooted helping of in your face Fascism. They work their dirty deeds with the help of their paid shills who spread Propaganda for them.

As for me, I have no country. There is nowhere to go, and nowhere to run to and live free. You need the capitalists form of freedom, THE ALMIGHTY MONEY RULES EVERTHING AND EVERY ONE! Where can the common people live, whose hearts are not filled with greed and dog eat dog mentallity? Where do people go whose only want and desire is to be treated equal?

The Capitalists have created so many hellholes around the world that America still looks safe and good. This shit called Capitalism is like a plague, once it grabs hold of a people it chokes the life out of them. And it has spread to just about everywhere. Can you afford to live in Spain? Or Norway? Can you just pick up your family and your belongings and go off to live in another country? Do we now become nomads? Are we supposed to roam from place to place like cattle?

The fat cat Capitalists can, but why would they leave? They've got it made off the backs of the salt of the earth. Our Sweat, our labor is their victory. The last time I counted there was more of Us than Them. We must take a stand and fight for our lives, our decent way of life. This is our last chance.

A stink on the White House

President Bush and his crime syndicate have put a stink on the White House and on government itself. By failing to cleanse the foul odors with the fire of
impeachment, the Democrats have put the stink on themselves.

The Democrats appear to be playing politics. They claim that with a Democrat as president over a Demo-
cratic Congress, they will finally be able to address the grave misdeeds and misgovernance of the past seven years. But there is no evidence that Democratic rule will be a Constitutional Rule.

There is nothing to prevent a Democratic president from exercising the same illegal, unconstitutional and
tyrannical powers asserted by the Bush government. In fact, since the Democratic Congress served as towel-holders and enablers of a manifestly criminal Republican president, what leads any of us to suppose that a Democratic Congress would enforce the law under a president of their own party? How naïve! Let me know how that works out...

The stink of President Bush is particularly foul and it is impossible to ignore -- unless you are a Democratic member of Congress. Bush's crimes are well documented and public knowledge. They include:


• Torture and extra-judicial killings of suspects.

• Illegal domestic spying and warrantless searches.

• Treasonous conspiracy to disclose the identity of a deep-cover CIA operative who was working to stop weapons of mass destruction proliferation pertaining to Iran, followed by obstruction of justice, and a self-serving pardon of the only man brought to justice, "Scooter" Libby (which establishes the precedent that unless Congress exercises its right to impeach, a president can commit virtually any crime and then freely issue pardons as part of a cover-up).

• Repeated violations of First Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens (remember the "Free Speech Zones" and protest cages?).

• Illegally -- and stupidly -- starting a war with Iraq based on cooked intelligence and telling lies to the American public.

• Losing that war(!) and getting the US bogged down in a desert quagmire costing $200 billion a year.

• Rampant corruption and unabashed cronyism with phony "privatization" schemes involving no-bid contracts and government officials or ex-government officials (especially Cheney and Halliburton).

• The destruction of New Orleans.

There is much more, but if this list of crimes is not considered "impeachable" by the Democrats in Congress, then there is no point in continuing the list. In fact, Congress itself should be impeached at the same time, if that were legally possible! The Bush stink is rancid, like a skunk in an outhouse in summer. And that stink covers Congress and the government itself.

We know that many "Democrats" in Congress are active players in the Bush Regime -- Senators Lieberman, Feinstein and Reid are major players, along with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, but there are many, many more Democrats who have collaborated with Bush-Cheney in their crimes. Only a handful of Democrats and Republicans believe the myth of "Constitution" any longer. The rest must be smoked out of their hidey holes by voters during the coming years.

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The Bush Crime Family Tree

Read about all the main players in Criminal family

Vermont town seeks Bush, Cheney arrests

President Bush may soon have a new reason to avoid left-leaning Vermont: In one town, activists want him subject to arrest for war crimes.

A group in Brattleboro is petitioning to put an item on a town meeting agenda in March that would make Bush and Vice President Cheney subject to arrest and indictment if they visit the southeastern Vermont community.

"This petition is as radical as the Declaration of Independence, and it draws on that tradition in claiming a universal jurisdiction when governments fail to do what they're supposed to do," said Kurt Daims, 54, a retired machinist leading the drive.

As president, Bush has visited every state except Vermont.

The town meeting, an annual exercise in which residents gather to vote on everything from fire department budgets to municipal policy, requires about 1,000 signatures to place a binding item on the agenda.

The measure asks: "Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictment for consideration by other municipalities?"

The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday. The press office did not immediately respond to an e-mail.

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I guess people are turning it up a notch, when the complicit congress wont do anything about the abuses by the Bush administration then it's up to the people to take matters into their own hands. Go Vermont!

American economy hijacked by corruption

Well, so far I have not heard any of the financial talking heads, or for that matter any of the candidates running for election in 2008, putting the blame of our rapidly disintegrating economy on the root cause, so-called "free trade".

This criminal money-making scheme, imposed upon the peoples of the world by the supporters of Globalism and their fellow conspirators on Wall Street and in Washington, has been a monumental failure right from the start. Designed to undermine organized labor by outsourcing both union and non union jobs to Third World nations, and by lowering or keeping stagnant the wages of those Americans still working,
the net result is that the rich are getting richer, and the poor getting poorer.

This is nothing new, as the rich and powerful have always been constantly at odds with the working man for as long as history has been recorded. What is different is the complete and total support for these destructive trade policies by those elected representatives of the people, the President, the Congress, and the Senate, who with few exceptions, are taking no action to head off the economic fiasco which now is bearing down on our hapless nation.

The unwillingness of our elected representatives to act upon the coming economic disaster can only be defined as treason, pure and simple. This sellout of the American worker began in earnest with Ronald Reagan firing the air traffic controllers during his term the White House, and it has continued under the subsequent administrations of GHW Bush and Bill Clinton.

While it was not surprising that the Republicans, with their traditional ties to big business, were hostile to the American labor force, it was a shock when Clinton, a Democrat, whose political party at one time enthusiastically supported labor in America, refused to veto NAFTA despite its obvious implications for the American worker.

Clinton's sellout to Wall Street and the Globalists began a stampede of businesses and manufacturers across the border into Mexico as soon as it was signed into law. Since Clinton's treason, the flow of American jobs out of the country has become a tidal wave, with most jobs formerly done by Americans now gone forever.

Indeed, It has not taken long for America to go into economic tailspin once the Wall Street conspirators and their political lackeys in Washington decided to stab their countrymen in the back. By supporting the voodoo economics practiced by the evil high priests of Wall Street, and conspiring with the backers of a Globalist New World Order, the corrupt and treasonous imposters who claim to represent the best interests of the American people have, so to speak, opened the gates of the nation to the depredations of modern day economic vandals.

With the burst of the housing bubble, the first of what will be many of the economic dominos to fall, and despite the infusion of billions of dollars by the Fed and billions from private investment banks, nothing is going to stave off the inevitable collapse so long as the fraud known as "free trade" remains in place.

The architects of this scam knew right from the get go that "free trade" would never work to the benefit of the masses. It was only but an opportunity for short-term looting and plunder of the economies of the world by the wealthy and powerful under the guise of legitimate economic planning.

However, like their co-conspirators in government with regard to foreign policy, concerning the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in particular, the Wall Street crooks do not have an exit plan to disengage once things start to go wrong. Therefore we the people will be forced unfairly to bear the brunt of the economic hardship initiated by a small group of traitors and criminals who have through greed and corruption hijacked a healthy and vibrant economy and replaced it with war, debt, inflation, growing unemployment, and the implementation of a police state.

Should we the people ever regain our Constitutional right to once more govern ourselves, those individuals who did their best to destroy our nation and to render us powerless must not be allowed to get away with it. Like the trials of the Nazi war criminals after WWII, the perpetrators of this coming economic calamity must be brought to justice for the harm they are bringing down upon the American people, and to those they have exploited around the World as well. We must not allow them to escape with their loot to live the rest of their lives in luxury -- they must face punishment for what they have done.

The Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials attempted to defend their horrendous actions by saying they were just following orders. That did not wash. The Wall Street executives and Washington politicians are already trying to justify their crimes against their country and the world as simply doing business. Sorry, but that is not going to wash either. Actions speak louder than words.

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Hopelessness in America

by Leon Fisher

There is little to be hopeful about. The money pouring into Washington from the powerful lobbies and special interest groups has trumped any real representation which may still exist for the common man in America. The Washington politicians and their corporate benefactors hold the citizens of this country in contempt and are working to remove any influence which they still have left.

The elections have become frauds, with only candidates running who are acceptable to the power elite in Washington and Wall St. No, and there is not much to look forward to. The economy is tanking, the wars continuing, and Bush and his rubber stamp Congress passing ever more legislation stripping Americans of their Constitutional rights.

As for candidates like Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, who hold out the promise of a return to Constitutional government, forget about it. The major news media is all but ignoring both candidates and even if Paul or Kucinich get the lions share of the vote, the result will be manipulated to give us a Clinton or a Giuliani.

We can only wait and see what happens. Hopefully the whole rotten system will collapse upon itself, and only then will we have an opportunity to restore to America a legitimate government beholden to the people.

Mansfield, La: We Know How To Handle Our Niggers...

by TheManWithNoPoint

Thu Aug 16, 2007 at 06:25:00 AM PDT
And don't, please don't come into this Diary complaining about the title. If you do, I'll ask you: What offends you more- my title, or Mansfield, La.'s new Anti-Nigger Law?
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'Cause that's exactly what it is, folks. Trust a Halfrican, I can spot these things a mile away...you may just wish to call it "racial profiling," but I prefer the old-fashioned term, a law to "Keep them nigras in them their place..."
Effective Sept. 15, anyone in this northwest Louisiana town caught wearing sagging pants that expose his or her underwear will be subject to a fine up to $150 plus court costs, or face up to 15 days in jail.
Uh, can anyone here pronounce the name of this particular animal?
Hint: It rhymes with J-I-M C-R-O-W...
Yeah, that'll show those white people who love to walk around with their pants sagging down...
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Mansfield...yes, there's more than one Mansfield in the United States. I'm talking about this one, whose only claim to fame is
History
The Battle of Mansfield, a Confederate victory under General Richard Taylor (son of Zachary Taylor), was fought here on April 8, 1864. This battle turned 42,000 Union Troops away from their conquest of the Louisiana Confederate Capital, Shreveport and sent them in retreat to New Orleans.
So, don't think this is about race?
Don't think it's about race? Then, tell me to which racial group does John Gibson, FoxNews' resident Ku Klux Klan nostalgist, refer to, when he loudly cheers the new law and says of the style:
It's not exactly new. Young men walking around with their pants sagging down somewhere south of their boxer shorts has been a feature of urban life for sometime. There are even hip-hop songs about saggin': I sag here, I sag there. My life is saggin' pants.
Yeah, you're right...he's talking about the ten-pierce-holes, green-haired white youth of that region, must be...
Because, according to the 2000 census, little ol' Mansfield, La.;
...there were 5,582 people...The racial makeup of the city was 34.13% White, 64.26% African American, 0.13% Native American, 0.27% Asian, 0.47% from other races, and 0.75% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.59% of the population.
Wow, a Jim Crow law in a Southern town that is one-third white, and nearly two-thirds black...
And pray tell, Mr. Gibson (of "let's make more white babies" fame), whose pure Anglo-Saxon bloodlines art whiter than thine hair, why are you so tickled by this law?
Even though you admit that the ACLU will shoot this down like a drunken duck in a bio-dome, and that the Supreme Court will give it the "hard good-bye" in a world-record quick ruling?
Is it that you already know that the targets of this law are more likely to end up doing 15 days in the bin than to come up with $150.00?
Wow, you're a real humanitarian, Grand Wiz- I mean, Mr. Gibson. In fact, this is how special you are, getting right into it;
...I say book 'em chief. Enforce the law until the courts say stop. Maybe in the meantime the kid with the sagging pants will grow up.
Yes, I'm sure they will, Mr. Gibson- after they've done 15 days in a Southern American jail for...a breach in dress etiquette...
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Tell me again, Mr. Gibson, how many days Scooter Libby served for his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice?
No time in jail? Not even one day?
And you were in support of this?
Excellent...
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Reminds me of a hilarious quote from Fried Green Tomatoes, where the Georgia sheriff says to the black man, "Just remember...we hang our lyin' niggers in Georgia... just as fast as they do in Alabama..."
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My advice to young black men in the Southern States of America:
A. Repeat after me: "You've got me confused with someone else, officer, my name isn't Crow, it's 50-Cent..."
B. If you're going to wear pants that hang low...wear shorts beneath them, so your "drawz" aren't showing?
Hey, no one said there was anything wrong with sagging pants exposing athletic shorts, did they?
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Give them a minute...
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It's Official: In certain parts of the United States of America, it is now a crime to Walk While Black.
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You heard it here first...

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