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Wednesday : The Day After History was made
by John From Cape Cod Mass
Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 11:52:55 AM PDT
What's Up Wid Dat?
The Dems Vs The GOP in 2008
A brief discussion of the Draft, the GOP, life in the "Fab" 60's
The argument for Unity among all Democrats, Independents, Republicans
Green Party members...Human Beings in general. One guys time in 1971
and 2008 and how they relate. Theres even a Poll <G>
John From Cape Cod Mass's diary
The Primarys are finally over. The three rallys come to a close last night.
Phones ring in the night..some unanswered. What's Up Wid Dat?
We all know the GOP rap....never surrender..100 years!
We hear the words from two of the Senators...Bomb Iran!
I like the Beach Boy song much better.
We heard one Senator say ...hold on..Lets talk to our enemies
Lets talk to those folks who HATE us. That makes sense to me.
Well I'm a Vet..and nope..never fired a shot in anger..nor had one fired
at me. HM2 USN/USCG 1978-1988. My job was to save lives..they told me that
in Navy Hospital Corps School, over in GreatLakes, Ill. I believed it too.
Yes i know..where was i during Nam? On the New Years Eve night of my 19th
birthday, me, like many others, we watching a LOTTERY decide if we were
going to live or die.That was the only lottery i ever made out on...i was to live..born May 22 1952.
Now this Iraq War
Hows it going folks? We have a few thousand dead.
We have God knows how many injured and What's Up Wid Dat?
The Military.com site has an article, here the LINK
They say 50% of our Folks aren't fit (healthwise) to return to Duty.
WHATS UP WID DAT?
To pursue the goals of the GOP a DRAFT is certain. I hear its no longer
"safe" to be a female like it was in 1971..Can they draft our Sisters,
Our Wives, Our Daughters, Our Grand Daughters now too? Or just the males?
That Senator who wants to talk..yea...THAT GUY...He's the Democratic
Nominee for President now. So Brothers and sisters What's Up Wid Dat?
The GOP = DRAFT So what are you going to do? Unite? or Fight?
Peace
John
Thats the Article and by following the Link you can comment directly..take the Poll
If you wish. I will end up doing at least five more, using research already gathered.
Do we need a courageous leader to take over in 2009?
So, which of our candidates is the most courageous?
How many of the candidates have had the courage to stand up to an out-of-control president and stop him from extending the military draft? To do so by using the filibuster that makes enemies of fellow senators from both parties? (And couldn't the Senate use some of that courage today?)
How many of the candidates have risked their careers and their freedom by publicizing secret records that revealed the long history of deceit that misled the people into allowing their immoral leaders to extend and escalate a stupid and short-sighted war? And then had to battle the president all the way to the Supreme Court.
How many of the candidates have had the courage to stand up to the racists to push through a ground-breaking aboriginal land claims settlement?
How many of the candidates have had the courage to stand up to the military-industrial complex by organizing worldwide environmental opposition to U.S. nuclear testing in the North Pacific?
How many of the candidates have had the courage to stand up to the idealogues and xenophobes and introduce legislation to normalize relations with China months before Kissinger's secret visit and Nixon's historic visit to that country?
How many of the candidates have had the courage to stand up to the oil companies, state and federal officials, and their own party, to empower the Congress to decide on the construction of an Alaskan oil pipeline that supplied one-fifth of our oil, thus reducing the danger of oil tankers wrecking in the arctic?
How many of the candidates have the courage to stand up to the homophobes and the religious right and speak out for full marriage equality, as well as repeal of the halfway "Don't ask, don't tell" policy?
How many of the candidates have the courage to directly challenge the corporate media by holding their own anti-debate when they've been shut out of the main-stream media's pony show?
How many of the candidates have the courage to persist in the face of ridicule from the corporate media and the blinkered pundits, who refuse to look beyond their knee-jerk judgments?
How many of the candidates have the courage to trust YOU to be a law-maker, by presenting a National Initiative for Democracy?
How many of the candidates have the courage to base their campaign and their life on love, saying "The most important thing in life is love. That's what empowers courage, and courage implements the rest of our virtues."
If you want to see courage in our leader, you might want to look at the courage displayed by Mike Gravel.
htp://www.gravel2008.us
So, which of our candidates is the most courageous?
How many of the candidates have had the courage to stand up to an out-of-control president and stop him from extending the military draft? To do so by using the filibuster that makes enemies of fellow senators from both parties? (And couldn't the Senate use some of that courage today?)
How many of the candidates have risked their careers and their freedom by publicizing secret records that revealed the long history of deceit that misled the people into allowing their immoral leaders to extend and escalate a stupid and short-sighted war? And then had to battle the president all the way to the Supreme Court.
How many of the candidates have had the courage to stand up to the racists to push through a ground-breaking aboriginal land claims settlement?
How many of the candidates have had the courage to stand up to the military-industrial complex by organizing worldwide environmental opposition to U.S. nuclear testing in the North Pacific?
How many of the candidates have had the courage to stand up to the idealogues and xenophobes and introduce legislation to normalize relations with China months before Kissinger's secret visit and Nixon's historic visit to that country?
How many of the candidates have had the courage to stand up to the oil companies, state and federal officials, and their own party, to empower the Congress to decide on the construction of an Alaskan oil pipeline that supplied one-fifth of our oil, thus reducing the danger of oil tankers wrecking in the arctic?
How many of the candidates have the courage to stand up to the homophobes and the religious right and speak out for full marriage equality, as well as repeal of the halfway "Don't ask, don't tell" policy?
How many of the candidates have the courage to directly challenge the corporate media by holding their own anti-debate when they've been shut out of the main-stream media's pony show?
How many of the candidates have the courage to persist in the face of ridicule from the corporate media and the blinkered pundits, who refuse to look beyond their knee-jerk judgments?
How many of the candidates have the courage to trust YOU to be a law-maker, by presenting a National Initiative for Democracy?
How many of the candidates have the courage to base their campaign and their life on love, saying "The most important thing in life is love. That's what empowers courage, and courage implements the rest of our virtues."
If you want to see courage in our leader, you might want to look at the courage displayed by Mike Gravel.
htp://www.gravel2008.us
Today I received a message from the Democratic Party builder to find and join a group that supports one of the candidates running. Thank you but I must decline. I have already formed a group for The Draft Gore Movement. Our Candidate may not be running but that won't stop us from trying to persuade him. Maybe if we all dug down real deep and found the strength to aplogize to the man, asked him back in a nice way, he might reconsider. This party owes that much to him. You will never have my heart, don't ask for it. I gave it away already to the Draft and to our man from Tenn.
The Draft Al Gore For President Movement
By Marta Jorgensen, co-regional director of AlGore.org (AGO), Southwest chapter
"In my heart, I do believe that democracy was harmed by my network and others on November 7, 2000.” — Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News Network, February 14, 2001. (How to Steal an Election, David W. Moore)
Most of us remember painfully well the 2000 election. But some of us aren’t content to let it be simply a painful memory. In 2002, a dedicated group of individuals who had been involved with Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign set up a Web site called gore04.org and organized a rally in Nashville, Tennessee. Gore told them to stop. He wasn’t into it. In the middle of 2006, the group got it rolling again, teaming up with AlGore.org (AGO) and working with other sites such as draftgore.com, meetup.com, and www.gorehub.com.
To date, the combined Draft Gore Movement has collected 150,000-plus signatures urging Gore to run. And this time Gore hasn’t told us to cut it out. The Draft Gore Movement is a labor of love on the part of its rapidly growing membership. Members and organizers do not have deep pockets, but use their own resources and intelligence to try to accomplish what mainstream political parties accomplish with their special-interest money and media spin doctors. They intend to place his name on the primary state ballots and put in place a voting base. Just in case …
Why all this effort? Why not support one of the Democratic candidates who has officially thrown his or her hat in the ring? To put it bluntly, none of them come close to Gore. He has established relationships with numerous world leaders, is well-liked internationally, and is not in anyone’s pocket.
Given the Bush administration’s unprecedented expansion of the unitary executive and sweeping constitutional changes, our next presidency may mean the difference between preserving our constitution and the principles upon which this country was founded, and losing them forever. Gore put it best himself in his 2006 speech, “Restoring the Rule of Law”: “If the pattern of practice begun by this administration is not challenged, it may well become a permanent part of the American system. Many conservatives have pointed out that granting unchecked power to this president means that the next president will have unchecked power as well. And the next president may be someone whose values and belief you do not trust.” The Clintons were involved in various breaches of constitutional law while in office, including allegations that Hillary’s brothers received large sums of money in exchange for requesting (and obtaining) presidential pardons. Both John Edwards and Barack Obama are too inexperienced to adeptly lead America out of its current constitutional and diplomatic crisis.
Gore would make the climate crisis the number one issue for 2008, a necessary agenda no candidate from either party has adopted. By unifying world powers in pursuit of the goal to save our planet, Gore would restore America’s standing in the world, thereby changing the global dialogue on other geopolitical crises as well.
If elected president, Gore would: eliminate all payroll taxes and replace that revenue with pollution taxes, principally on CO2; help negotiate a stronger second-generation Kyoto Treaty; create an “Electranet,” a smart electricity grid that would allow individuals and businesses to buy and sell electricity, forcing them to monitor their own consumption; and promote profitable alternative energy business models. Gore is also committed to ending the war in Iraq, which goes hand in hand with reducing our dependence on oil.
In The Assault on Reason, Gore stated, “Many Americans now feel that our government is unresponsive and that no one in a position of power listens to or cares what they think. They feel disconnected from democracy. They feel that one vote makes no difference, and that they, as individuals, now have no practical means of participating in America’s self-government.” Gore is well connected with the citizenry, even engaging in citizens’ Web blog discussions from time to time. As president, he would restore public participation in politics.
Gore has stated that he can accomplish his goals as a private citizen, without getting caught up in the political game. But that can only go so far. Real change in governance must come from the executive. The goal of the Draft Gore Movement is to show him that the people want him to run, and that he has enough popular support to win. According to a recent 7NEWS / Suffolk University poll, 32 percent of Democratic voters would support Gore over the candidate toward which they are currently leaning. That’s why the Draft Gore effort is becoming so insistent and vocal.
Members have shown up at all of The Assault on Reason book-signings. In Los Angeles recently, the “Gore People” were in full force, handing out Gore ’08 buttons, signs, and gear to the 2,000 attendees. Gore said he was “flabbergasted” by the level of organization.
Supporting the Draft Gore Movement is the most logical and moral path to take. It’s real democracy in action. Since 2000, a sizable part of the nation has grown from its pain, is less naïve, and more politically active and vocal, thanks to the Internet. Gore has also grown from his pain, as a man and as a leader. He would be the People’s President. It’s high time the nation and the leader shook hands. 4•1•1Visit AlGore.org to get involved.
By Marta Jorgensen, co-regional director of AlGore.org (AGO), Southwest chapter
"In my heart, I do believe that democracy was harmed by my network and others on November 7, 2000.” — Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News Network, February 14, 2001. (How to Steal an Election, David W. Moore)
Most of us remember painfully well the 2000 election. But some of us aren’t content to let it be simply a painful memory. In 2002, a dedicated group of individuals who had been involved with Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign set up a Web site called gore04.org and organized a rally in Nashville, Tennessee. Gore told them to stop. He wasn’t into it. In the middle of 2006, the group got it rolling again, teaming up with AlGore.org (AGO) and working with other sites such as draftgore.com, meetup.com, and www.gorehub.com.
To date, the combined Draft Gore Movement has collected 150,000-plus signatures urging Gore to run. And this time Gore hasn’t told us to cut it out. The Draft Gore Movement is a labor of love on the part of its rapidly growing membership. Members and organizers do not have deep pockets, but use their own resources and intelligence to try to accomplish what mainstream political parties accomplish with their special-interest money and media spin doctors. They intend to place his name on the primary state ballots and put in place a voting base. Just in case …
Why all this effort? Why not support one of the Democratic candidates who has officially thrown his or her hat in the ring? To put it bluntly, none of them come close to Gore. He has established relationships with numerous world leaders, is well-liked internationally, and is not in anyone’s pocket.
Given the Bush administration’s unprecedented expansion of the unitary executive and sweeping constitutional changes, our next presidency may mean the difference between preserving our constitution and the principles upon which this country was founded, and losing them forever. Gore put it best himself in his 2006 speech, “Restoring the Rule of Law”: “If the pattern of practice begun by this administration is not challenged, it may well become a permanent part of the American system. Many conservatives have pointed out that granting unchecked power to this president means that the next president will have unchecked power as well. And the next president may be someone whose values and belief you do not trust.” The Clintons were involved in various breaches of constitutional law while in office, including allegations that Hillary’s brothers received large sums of money in exchange for requesting (and obtaining) presidential pardons. Both John Edwards and Barack Obama are too inexperienced to adeptly lead America out of its current constitutional and diplomatic crisis.
Gore would make the climate crisis the number one issue for 2008, a necessary agenda no candidate from either party has adopted. By unifying world powers in pursuit of the goal to save our planet, Gore would restore America’s standing in the world, thereby changing the global dialogue on other geopolitical crises as well.
If elected president, Gore would: eliminate all payroll taxes and replace that revenue with pollution taxes, principally on CO2; help negotiate a stronger second-generation Kyoto Treaty; create an “Electranet,” a smart electricity grid that would allow individuals and businesses to buy and sell electricity, forcing them to monitor their own consumption; and promote profitable alternative energy business models. Gore is also committed to ending the war in Iraq, which goes hand in hand with reducing our dependence on oil.
In The Assault on Reason, Gore stated, “Many Americans now feel that our government is unresponsive and that no one in a position of power listens to or cares what they think. They feel disconnected from democracy. They feel that one vote makes no difference, and that they, as individuals, now have no practical means of participating in America’s self-government.” Gore is well connected with the citizenry, even engaging in citizens’ Web blog discussions from time to time. As president, he would restore public participation in politics.
Gore has stated that he can accomplish his goals as a private citizen, without getting caught up in the political game. But that can only go so far. Real change in governance must come from the executive. The goal of the Draft Gore Movement is to show him that the people want him to run, and that he has enough popular support to win. According to a recent 7NEWS / Suffolk University poll, 32 percent of Democratic voters would support Gore over the candidate toward which they are currently leaning. That’s why the Draft Gore effort is becoming so insistent and vocal.
Members have shown up at all of The Assault on Reason book-signings. In Los Angeles recently, the “Gore People” were in full force, handing out Gore ’08 buttons, signs, and gear to the 2,000 attendees. Gore said he was “flabbergasted” by the level of organization.
Supporting the Draft Gore Movement is the most logical and moral path to take. It’s real democracy in action. Since 2000, a sizable part of the nation has grown from its pain, is less naïve, and more politically active and vocal, thanks to the Internet. Gore has also grown from his pain, as a man and as a leader. He would be the People’s President. It’s high time the nation and the leader shook hands. 4•1•1Visit AlGore.org to get involved.
Do you believe Senator Obama should run for president? CNN has a story about the various draft movements springing up around the country. Todd Webster, former spokesperson to Tom Daschle, launched his website www.runobama.com to gather support for Senator Obama. This and another site created by Ben Stanfield are linked at CNN and both have petitions to sign. So go ahead--sign away!
--Timothy
--Timothy
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