[GPSCC-chat] Obama & Economic Recovery

[Caroline Yacoub]

Well said Spencer!




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From: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
To: alexcathy at aol.com
Cc: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
Sent: Wed, August 31, 2011 2:14:35 AM
Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Obama & Economic Recovery

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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