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A Message to President Obama…

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Finally!  Definitive proof that, even at the subconscious level, V’ger Brane here is a total, utter, unrepentant smartass. (Not that there was really any doubt left, but still…)

Right before I woke up today, I dreamed someone was doing a political survey for the Obama campaign; called me [happened to be one of the times that I'm totally in the mood to wax bitch-errific]; asked if it were OK to record the conversation [sure]; and my lil ol’, formerly-mousy, nervous-when-talking-to-any-group/stranger Self calmly, coolly, and oh-so-thoroughly shot down each and every talking point that a dyed-in-the-wool, lifelong democrat such as yours truly would be expected to be all giddy-fied over, e.g. …

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“If [this-n-that...], why did he name Tom Vilsack, a Monsanto man, as AGSec?”

“If [yadda-yadda...], why did he choose Jeffery Immelt, GE’s outsourcing/tax-dodging King of the Universe, as his liaison with the business community?”

“If [blah-blah...], fracking? Seriously?!  Will a lower heating bill really matter if we’re falling into sinkholes and quake cracks, our tap water is flammable, and deadly hydrocarbons such as benzine are poisoning our kids?”

And so on.  Yeah, I was on a roll.  And a bagel.  With cream cheese and strawberry jam.

I finally paused, took a deep breath, and said, “Sorry, I’m really passionate about all this… What was the last question?”  The survey guy cracked up – turned out he was loving every second of it [who knew?] – and asked, “Do you plan to vote this year?”  Me: “Oh, yes, I’ll walk three miles to vote for him again because a center-right POTUS is better than one who’s gone so far-right that he’s about to tumble off the eastern edge of his flat earth.”  Dood lost it.  LOST. IT.

“I’m sure the President would appreciate hearing all you’ve had to say.  Do you mind if I pass this recording onto him?” Me: [gulp] “Please do!”

“Is there anything else you would like to say to him?”  Me [pretty much tapped out at that point]: “Uh… yes, tell him when Michelle told him not to do that milk joke, he should have listened.” [Pause while survey dood tries to catch his breath again....]

“In summary, one last question: If you had to pick a number, what percentage of the time would you say you agree with President Obama?”  Me: “Well, I agree with at least 90% of what he says; the problem is that, while he talks a good game, at least 50% of the time, he then walks through the door and either caves – out of a sincere but misguided attempt to ‘go along to get along’ – or flat-out plays for the other team.  We need a POTUS who is a passionate LEADER, who takes a firm stand for We The People, for the planet, for the Rule of Law, and for Sanity itself!”

“Thank you very much for your input.  I’m sure President Obama will appreciate it.”  Me: “You’re very welcome” [as I'm thinking: Heh, yeah... when pigs fly backwards whistling a catchy Gershwin tune...].  The typical goodbyes. ::click::

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At that point, I started to regain consciousness [sort of] and thought: Wow, cool dream, hope I remember it (which rarely happens).  Half-awake me stumbled over here, hit the button to switch my power strip on; tripped on into the kitchen; and, as I was standing there filling my glass, found myself wondering: Why are Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons singing in my head???  Suddenly achieved full focus and damn near died laffin’… The song that I was ‘hearing’ was “Walk Like a Man.”

Oh, V’ger Brane, you are *such* a smartass!

But just do it, O.  PLEASE.  It’s now or never.  Seriously.

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The Entitled Ones are always saying: “Let the market decide.”

We of The 99% reply: “You want it, you got it!”

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46.2 million Americans – that’s 15.1 percent of us – now live in abject poverty. We rescued the Too-Bigs, now they are tossing families into the streets and demolishing their foreclosed homes. People are struggling to survive in tent cities right here in the United States of America. World-class tax dodgers are downsizing and outsourcing us, quite literally, to death.  We are considered no more than collateral damage, mere sacrifices upon the Altar of the Almighty Buck.

Millions jobless… homeless… sick… shivering… hungry…. and the sociopaths in charge of this star-spangled neocon/neolib asylum DO. NOT. CARE. In fact, they think it’s FUNNY!

It is impossible to do the ‘bootstraps’ thing when someone keeps stealing your boots!

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So we are taking a stand.  We’re hitting them in the ONLY place that they care about: their own wallets. We are moving our money. Some folks on Facebook picked today as a special day to get the ball rolling.

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The FBI began using the word ‘epidemic’ to describe mortgage fraud in September of *2004* predicting that it would cause an economic crisis if it were not contained. Greenspan, Bernanke, and Geithner knew exactly where we were headed, but failed to take action. The highrollers were having waaay too much fun sitting at the gambling tables with other people’s money, donchaknow. Until Reality once again reared its ugly head and it became obvious that all of those pretty zeros existed only on paper. The money – trillions of dollars – never actually existed!

When time came to settle up at the window, the modern-day Medici wannabes had to admit that the jig was up. Technically, they were insolvent and screamed for help – by threatening to bring down the entire global economy! – and the entire mess suddenly became a Big Freakin’ Emergency™. So the FED “rev’d up the presses” to pay off their gambling debts. FOREIGN banks and their U.S. subsidiaries received a huge chunk of that $3.3 trillion in TARP funds.

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Keith Olbermann’s excellent summation of the Bush/Cheney era…

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Last week’s historical election was a great accomplishment, but it is only the first step in reclaiming our nation and re-establishing a government which is truly of, by, and for We The People.  Our job is not done.

In the midst of the Great Depression of the 30s, several titans of American industry approached General Smedley Butler in hopes that he would be willing to lead a military overthrow of the U.S. government.  These men – including Prescott Bush – were traitors by every definition of the word, literal and figurative.

Instead of cooperating, General Butler reported the plot to FDR; however, since the cooperation of these rich and powerful men was needed for the passage of the desperately needed New Deal, he struck a deal with them rather than prosecuting: if they dropped all political opposition to his plan, he would not have them charged, and their crimes would be swept under the rug.  It was a politically expedient, understandable, practical decision. However, it also left the avarice-driven criminals running free amongst us. Prescott Bush was elected to the U.S. Senate, and here we are.

Richard Nixon did not get away with his “if the President does it, it’s not illegal” modus operandi, but he was pardoned, the full truth will never be known, and far too many guilty parties were never held accountable. They were left free to become operatives in future administrations, and here we are.

While the much-loved, charming and well-meaning (but ill-equipped) Ronald Reagan smiled for the cameras, a shadow government wheeled and dealed, arranged for the overthrow of duly democratically elected leaders of other countries when they refused to play ball with ours, and even equipped and funded TERRORISTS in South America and the Middle East. Most were pardoned, left free to rise to positions of power again, and here we are.

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…specific, established facts were reversed in the Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin presidential race?

If John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review; and Barack Obama had finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class…

If McCain had only married once; and Obama were the divorcee…

If Obama were the candidate who had left his first wife after a severe, disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards…

If Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair with her while he was still married…

If Cindy McCain had graduated from Harvard; and Michelle Obama were the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization…

If the Obamas had paraded five children across a stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant, teenage daughter…

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First, some words of wisdom from Abraham Lincoln, on January 11, 1837 ~ “It is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler. Now, sir, in the present case, if any gentlemen, whose money is a burden to them, choose to lead off a dance, I am decidedly opposed to the people’s money being used to pay the fiddler… all this to settle a question in which the people have no interest, and about which they care nothing. These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.”

And a recent, succinct summation of our current economic conundrum from Common Dreams forum member “matti” ~ “Criminal financial enterprises lent out money they didn’t have, then expected you to work and slave to pay back that “debt” (that they made by magic into an asset – for them) with REAL money. When you couldn’t do it, they had you kicked to the curb. And now, when too many of us have been screwed over in this way for them to pretend that these debts are really assets, they demand that YOUR Government use YOUR Treasury funds to bail them out!”

Yep.

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Many reasonable people believe that seeking the impeachment of the Deluded Decider (and his Dastardly Dick) at this late date would be a foolish waste of time; however, I respectfully disagree, for the following reasons:

1. Vincent Bugliosi, John Dean, Elizabeth Holtzman, Dave Lindorff & Barbara Olshansky, and others have fully documented the impeachable high crimes and misdemeanors that have been committed by this avarice-driven misadministration. On June 9, 2008, Dennis Kucinich formally read Thirty-Five Articles of Impeachment into the Congressional Record. The case has been made, as Vincent Bugliosi makes perfectly clear in his book (shown at right). The evidence already gathered is both well documented and incontrovertible.

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As mentioned on my Bush/Cheney Administration page, in a country where the economy crumbles due in large part to a criminally fraudulent “creative financial products” bubble-burst — as home values plummet, bridges collapse, hardworking people max out their plastic just to cover necessities, and many families end up sleeping in their cars or on the streets — there could be a virtually endless supply of overwhelmed debt-slaves and desperate indigent people to serve as cannon fodder for the Neo-con men’s excellent global-domination adventures or as indentured servants in the “enterprise zone” work camps being built, even as we type, by our fine fiends… um… friends at KBR.

The fiscal abyss into which we’re falling is not the result of incompetent governance; nor was it merely caused by the actions of a few greed-driven flimflam men in $2k suits.  They all know *exactly* what they’re doing.  The top 10% now own 85% of our nation’s wealth and assets.  This was THE PLAN.  And they are still not satisfied.

The New American Nobility — our corporate overlords, their willing puppets on the Hill, the nattily groomed MSM shills on teevee, and the loyal stenographers of the Waffle House Press Corpse (dear Helen excepted!) — honestly believe that “society is best served” if We The Peons are forced to, quite literally, live and die in service to The Entitled Ones.

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