Obama's Right Turn?

drummerman1972

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Monday June 23, 2008 · 7:13 PM PDT

2008/06/23 · 19:13

Seeing these reports and the latest rhetoric from Senator Obama, I fear that our man is heading towards where many of us feared he might: that courage-less middle ground that has put this nation on the verge of self-destruction. This election has to be about drastic foreign policy change as much as domestic. If our foreign policy and our nation's military industrial disease is not altered dramatically... all this talk of hope and change is utterly in vain. We must support him CRITICALLY, brothers and sisters.....

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Tuesday June 10, 2008 · 9:48 PM PDT

2008/06/10 · 21:48

Representative Kucinich Introduced 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush yesterday. Here they are for your dining pleasure. Can one seriously argue against any of these?

History will honor this man, and ridicule those who refused to take a stand. We should all thank him for displaying true courage in this time of fear.

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Thursday June 05, 2008 · 8:53 AM PDT

2008/06/05 · 08:53

Just watched a pretty amazing documentary with some great commentary by the likes of Dick Gregory, Gloria Steinem, Gary Hart and McGovern himself. Narrated by Amy Goodman (also features an excellent interview with her.)

I encourage everyone to check this out: "One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern" by First Run Features.

He really picked up RFK's mantle and I would say perhaps even outdid him. I don't think people realize that his landslide loss to Nixon only came after some pretty sinister and ridiculous events. He was very close to surging to political victory during the summer of 72. He said the things that this nation needed to hear and I hope brother Obama knows this story! Tragic to see how right McGovern was and wrong everyone else was, particularly those who voted for Nixon. Hopefully our history will start to reflect this someday.......

Yes, Let's Talk About Bobby Kennedy

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Sunday May 25, 2008 · 11:58 AM PDT

2008/05/25 · 11:58

There's no need to rehash the utter insanity of what good ole Hillary implied with her ill conceived remarks the other day about the assassination of RFK in 1968. I'll even give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she didn't mean to imply it.... despite the obvious and justified reaction provoked by even uttering those word at this moment.

But rather than brush it away I think this is yet another opportunity for brother Obama and, more importantly, the United States, to take a potential disaster and use it to talk about the things that we as a nation rarely talk about. Our lack of national intellectual curiosity still amazes me at times. So let's talk...

Bobby Kennedy. What could have been.

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