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[Spencer Graves]

Perhaps it could begin, "When in the course of human events, it becomes 
necessary ... ."


On 10/17/2011 10:21 AM, Jim Doyle wrote:
> Spencer's recent posting, included below, could,
> in my opinion, be the backbone of one of our flyers.
>
> What do you think?
>
>       During Obama's first two years, he had Democratic majorities in
> both the House and the Senate.  During that period, he expanded the war
> from Irak and Afghanistan into Pakistan.  He failed to close
> Guantanamo.  He continued and perhaps expanded the use of torture and
> extraordinary renditions.  His selected arch right wingers as economic
> advisers and happily used the economic crisis as an excuse for more
> welfare for the banks without any serious move towards reregulation or
> prosecuting those guilty of conspiring to commit fraud in encouraging
> thousands and probably millions of people to purger themselves on loan
> applications, then confiscating their homes in fraudulent ways when they
> didn't make their loan payments.
>
>
>       You are correct that he did not have an army of people in the
> streets like Occupy Wall Street or the Bonus Army of 1932 and 1933
> actively pushing the Democrats to actually pass legislation.  Instead,
> they invented the need for a super majority in the Senate so they
> wouldn't have to be bothered at all with right wing filibusters.  This
> gave them an excuse to continue clandestinely serving the big money
> while complaining the "couldn't" pass legislation.  If the Occupy
> movement had started in 2008, the history of the past 3 years could have
> been different.
>
>
>       Spencer
>
>
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