What do we do now?" That's the question Bill McKay (Robert Redford), ponders in The Candidate (1972). He won the presidency, promising "a better way." After Nov. 4, America is asking Democrats the same haunting question. These are heady times for the party of Thomas Jefferson, Franklin [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Reader Comments
Beautiful!
Go Big how?
Intentions materialize realities; my intentions are materializing these words; your intention, o reader my Reader, keeps you passing your eyes over them.
Whose intentions are now materializing a tsunami of hate?
NO1 told all these people to do all these hateful things. NO1 is speaking, and you are hearing.
Re: the myths with which Fear-Mongers, both Right and Left, are jacking us again; McClellan’s “manipulating the media narrative.”
Watch McCain’s concession. At the mere mention of Obama, the crowd starts booing, doing violence even to his name.
He holds out a hand to tamp down the hate realized by his hate-filled lies about Obama’s faith, patriotism, and person.
“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
Posted by knowbuddhau on Nov 19, 2008 at 8:18 AM
The “change” promised by Obama is nothing more than cosmetics. Listen to experts like Webster Tarpley, Jerome Corsi, Larry Pratt and others discuss the real Obama. They are free MP3 downloads at http://drop.io/Summerbird
Posted by Stargod on Nov 20, 2008 at 3:44 AM
Thanks for the link Stargod. With all due respect,
I listen to Obama when I want to hear the real real Obama. The “who’s the real Obama?” gambit was overdone before the election was over, IMO.
I am concerned with our next president’s intentions. Looks to me like he’s either being, or about to be, run like any other asset by the same fiends who’ve been jacking us into this Waste Land, and sticking us with the bill, for centuries now.
There are some among us, who think they know how to machine us into Being aware of this we share: our shared Becoming.
“From its late 17th century inception in modern form, science has strongly privileged the reductionist mode of thought that breaks overt complexity into constituent parts and then tries to explain the totality by the properties of these parts and simple interactions fully predictable from the parts. (“Analysis” literally means to dissolve into basic parts). The reductionist method works triumphantly for simple systems
Posted by knowbuddhau on Nov 20, 2008 at 8:25 AM
Cyclops, I’m looking at you, pal, have you seen d’oh! my bad, that was ‘no man.’ Here comes Some1 now.
Here!
I am
NO1 (and so are you, o reader my Reader! that’s the Good News)
Posted by knowbuddhau on Nov 20, 2008 at 8:52 AM