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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Spencer Graves <spencer.graves@prodsyse.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> alexcathy@aol.com<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wed, August 31, 2011 2:14:35 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [GPSCC-chat] Obama & Economic Recovery<BR></FONT><BR>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<BR><BR><BR>On
8/30/2011 9:50 PM, <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:alexcathy@aol.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:alexcathy@aol.com">alexcathy@aol.com</A> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT color=black size=2 face=arial><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Green Friends, <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>No! No! No! <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif">Clinton, Gore, Lieberman, Clinton, Edwards, and Obama! My friends, this is not your mother's Democratic Party. </FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif"><BR><BR><BR>Alex Walker <BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR>
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