As of recently, Obama and Biden have stepped up the rhetoric against McCain, but why are they still using terms like "bipartisan". In the past thirty years in American politics that equals Democrats giving up and moving to the right on an issue or bill. If Obama wins the election his party will control two branches of the government at a time of great crisis in this country. Imagine what would have happened in 1932 if FDR pandered to the right or "saw both sides of the spectrum," there'd be no hundred days, no New Deal and Americans would have sunk even deeper into depression with no hope of climbing out. There's a right wing and a left wing for a reason: they represent opposing interests and opposing political viewpoints and platforms. There's nothing wrong with that. It's exciting, it's needed, it's a powerful objective to rally behind.
The radical, pro-corporate, de-regulatory platform of the Republican party that has dominated Washington since the 1970's is what got us into this mess (this is not to excuse the two Democratic presidents within this period who did nothing to stand up to Republican congresses and followed their lead instead). The American people should be out in the streets demanding the heads of these Fat Cat Wall Street speculators and their cronies in Washington, and at the very least, supporting the opposing party's first exciting candidate since the 60's. I say there should be a voter rebellion and would gladly welcome every Republican congressman/senator up for re-election being purged, McCain getting his ass handed to him, and every Supreme Court justice dying in Obama's first term and having him stack it with partisan-left judges. That would get rid of the gridlock and there'd be a wave of government activism that this country has not seen in too many years and has so sorely needed. There's nothing wrong with action or with standing up and telling those who lead us into this disaster that they are wrong.
At least there has been a shift back to Obama leading but the margin is still far too thin for where it should be. Unfortunately, I believe the reason for this is the "culture war" politics that the Republican Party, Evangelical Churches, and Media mouthpieces have been so effective at propagating. There's absolutely no other reason this race should be this close. How else could such an obviously terrible choice of a Vice President as Sarah Palin actually activate such a mass of people and pull the Republican back into this race? Poking fun at big cities and community organizers are coded racist signals sent to whites in small towns, the south, and the suburbs who fear diversity. And they went for it. Poor and working whites who have suffered daily at the hands of the ultra-right economic policies of the past eight years of Bush have absolutely nothing to gain by voting in the same party for four more years. This should be as clear as day to them, yet the polls are still close and they still choose to cling to their racism and fundamentalism while they drown. I hope my cynicism is proven wrong, but the polls being this close in these times is just outrageous. The American people themselves need to continue to organize and pressure our government for more far reaching change and if Obama wants to win, he should take his cue from the people, be emboldened by it, and drive these points home. He seems to have been going in the right direction recently and I hope he steps it up even further and stops pandering with weak "bipartisan" rhetoric.
In Solidarity,
-Steve
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Well said brotha Steven.
And as we have discussed earlier, the honorable Reverend Jeremiah Wright should also be given the chance to be heard.
Liberation Theology within context, such as Wright's sermons can be found on YouTube. And I recommend all those who are reading this, to listen to what this brotha has to say.
It is what it is and it ain't what it ain't.
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