I want a fighter. The things that are going wrong in this country are almost too much to wrap my head around, but even if I can't do that, I can sense it. We all can...we know how deep, how pervasive and how terribly wrong things are. Foreclosures, job losses, no health care, Fannie and Freddie, corruption, oil companies that control our future, incompetence everywhere we look in government, Katrina, the fact that McCain and Palin can lie with a straght face and nobody cares, the educational system and on and on and on.
Newsflash: People who hold power NEVER give it up willingly! EVER! Being agreeable, trying to compromise, presenting intelligent, rational arguments for change DOES NOT WORK WTIH PEOPLE WHO HOLD POWER. EVER!
We are going to have to fight with everything we have to get things changed in this country. Obama and Biden and Hillary and Bill and every other surrogate is going to have to fight with all they have as well. This is nothing short of a war...I believe that with every fiber in my being.
I want someone who is willing to fight and be outraged...every minute...every TV clip, every appearance. I want someone who will say it so loud and so often that it will pierce through all of the defenses, the closed minds, the lack of awareness that seems to permeate this country.
I want Barack to say ENOUGH!!!! Every day, every appearance...and then follow it up with WHY WE SHOULD BE OUTRAGED! AND What will happen if we don't get things changed.
I want to see him mad...I want to see more of Joe Biden getting mad.
Do you remember the video of Teddy Kennedy talking in the Senate about Republicans and the minimum wage? If I could find it I would, but I am too mad.
That is what I want to see. I want to see him calling them on their crap every minute. I want to hear him say everyday they are lying to you on this and this and this...
Nothing will change if we don't let that anger and outrage move us. ANd Barack and Biden can't do it. We are the only ones who can do it. We have to call every politician, every media person, every newspaper article on it when we see their crap.We have to do it. WE have to fight for this...it will not change unless we do.
Every great struggle for change, whether it was the civil rights movement, the union movement, Ghandi in India, Cesar Chavez, the struggle against apartheid...every struggle for structural change was a huge BATTLE. I believe we are in that kind of struggle to take our country back.
I want fighters....I want people who are willing to lay EVERYTHING on the line for this, because it requires nothing less.
I want a fighter!