[GPSCC-chat] literature content

[Cameron L. Spitzer]

It's 210 words, in two dense paragraphs, with complicated
compound sentences.
That's not gonna impress the twitter generation.
How many of them even know what Guantanamo is?
Can you boil it down to 140 characters?
Sentences of less than 12 words?

"In politics, if you're explaining, you're losing."

And don't forget the spell check.  purger s/b perjure.

-Cameron



>Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:21:10 -0700
>From: Jim Doyle <j.m.doyle at sbcglobal.net>
>To: sosfbay discussion group <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
>Subject: [GPSCC-chat] literature content

>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