[GPSCC-chat] Obama & Economic Recovery

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Alex:  I concur.  In the 1970s, Gore Vidal said that the US had a 
one-party system with two right wings.  I call in the Party of 
Institutionalized Bribery.  Whether you vote for the Republican Party of 
Institutionalized Bribery or the Democratic Party of Institutionalized 
Bribery, if you vote for a candidate with a campaign budget raised 
substantially from large "contributors", you are voting for bribery.  
I'm through voting for bribery.  Spencer Graves


On 8/30/2011 9:50 PM, alexcathy at aol.com wrote:
> Dear Green Friends,
>
> My problem with this kind of analysis (supposedly comes "from the 
> Left") is the presumption that Mr. Obama and the Democrats do what 
> they do because the "Tea Party" or the Republicans or "Wall Street" or 
> "racists" make them do what they would otherwise not do.
>
> I used to think that.  No more.  In 2008, Obama, himself, proved that 
> you could raise plenty of money with small to mid-sized donations.  In 
> 2012 he'll have the advantage of being an incumbent president running 
> against a GOP plainly being run by idiots.
>
> No! No! No!
>
> Obama and his boys do what they do because they believe in 
> "trickle-down" economics no less than the Republicans.  Ralph Nader, 
> for one, has painstakingly been documenting this now for more than a 
> decade.  I mean, look at Jerry Brown, Diane Feinstein and the 
> Democrats right here in California.  Except for the "culture war" and 
> "social issues" there really is no significant difference between 
> them.  And I say this as an African-American who loathes Republican 
> so-called conservatives for forty years of race-baiting.  But I know 
> what I've seen, including what I've seen from Black and Latino 
> Democrats in 4 states and the District of Columbia.
>
> Clinton, Gore, Lieberman, Clinton, Edwards, and Obama!  My friends, 
> this is not your mother's Democratic Party.
>
>
> Alex Walker
>
>
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