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<br><br>I would like to add that Obama's Justice Department has asserted state <br>secrets privileges in court far beyond what Bush did, and he aggressively <br>extended executive power beyond Bush's by not only claiming the right <br>to assassinate U.S. citizens, but by actually doing so.<br><br><br><br><br><div>> To: sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<br>> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:07:03 -0700<br>> From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us<br>> Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] literature content<br>> <br>> <br>> It's 210 words, in two dense paragraphs, with complicated<br>> compound sentences.<br>> That's not gonna impress the twitter generation.<br>> How many of them even know what Guantanamo is?<br>> Can you boil it down to 140 characters?<br>> Sentences of less than 12 words?<br>> <br>> "In politics, if you're explaining, you're losing."<br>> <br>> And don't forget the spell check. purger s/b perjure.<br>> <br>> -Cameron<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> >Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:21:10 -0700<br>> >From: Jim Doyle <j.m.doyle@sbcglobal.net><br>> >To: sosfbay discussion group <sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org><br>> >Subject: [GPSCC-chat] literature content<br>> <br>> >Spencer's recent posting, included below, could,<br>> >in my opinion, be the backbone of one of our flyers.<br>> <br>> >What do you think?<br>> <br>> > During Obama's first two years, he had Democratic majorities in<br>> >both the House and the Senate. During that period, he expanded the war<br>> >from Irak and Afghanistan into Pakistan. He failed to close<br>> >Guantanamo. He continued and perhaps expanded the use of torture and<br>> >extraordinary renditions. His selected arch right wingers as economic<br>> >advisers and happily used the economic crisis as an excuse for more<br>> >welfare for the banks without any serious move towards reregulation or<br>> >prosecuting those guilty of conspiring to commit fraud in encouraging<br>> >thousands and probably millions of people to purger themselves on loan<br>> >applications, then confiscating their homes in fraudulent ways when they<br>> >didn't make their loan payments.<br>> <br>> <br>> > You are correct that he did not have an army of people in the<br>> >streets like Occupy Wall Street or the Bonus Army of 1932 and 1933<br>> >actively pushing the Democrats to actually pass legislation. Instead,<br>> >they invented the need for a super majority in the Senate so they<br>> >wouldn't have to be bothered at all with right wing filibusters. This<br>> >gave them an excuse to continue clandestinely serving the big money<br>> >while complaining the "couldn't" pass legislation. If the Occupy<br>> >movement had started in 2008, the history of the past 3 years could have<br>> >been different.<br>> <br>> <br>> > Spencer<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> sosfbay-discuss mailing list<br>> sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<br>> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss<br></div> </div></body>
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