In Class War, Rich are Attacking and Winning

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Tuesday November 02, 2010 · 3:36 PM PDT

2010/11/02 · 15:36

President Obama has fundamentally misunderstood the nature of the country's crisis. The President — like the vast majority of Americans — did not and does not recognize the truth of Warren Buffet’s statement:

“There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning

By understanding this fundamental truth, the President can develop a battle plan to regain lost ground.

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Monday September 13, 2010 · 2:38 PM PDT

2010/09/13 · 14:38

The Christian Right declares that America is a Christian nation and demands a halt to building the “mosque at Ground Zero,” invoking anger over Muslim a thousand years ago. Does being Christian demand a return to the religious wars of past centuries?

Freedom of speech and religion provide a practical pathway for people of different faiths to live together in peace. They are part of an American domestic cultural fabric which maintains peace among our diverse people by treating everyone as equal and according everyone an equal right to believe and practice the religion of their choice. And, just as everyone has equal rights, everyone has — or should impose on themselves – an equal obligation to respect the rights of others.

The mosque controversy is intended to disrupt this fabric of domestic tranquillity. Like the other right-wing eruptions of the last few months, it has not been spontaneous. It has been planned, financed and executed for the political purposes of the Tea Party corporate sponsors.

Is America a Christian nation? Not in the sense that it endorses or enforces any religious view. But in the sense that freedom of religion may be an outgrowth of the teachings of Jesus, perhaps it is.

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Monday April 19, 2010 · 2:48 PM PDT

2010/04/19 · 14:48

Trust of the government is near an all time low. The obvious reasons include the financial meltdown, the election of a new, "change" administration which appears unable or unwilling to control the banks in their bonuses, their lobbying or their refusal to support mortgage adjustments.

The anger and distrust also reflect a failure of the Obama Administration to differentiate itself from its failed predecessor, and to lay out a clearly different program to resolve the nation’s problems. Most importantly, the administration has not taken a clear leadership role on the financial bill now coming to the floor of the Senate. It has taken varying positions and the bill as now presented does not include important safeguards which the President sought.

The speaking tour to support the bill is late. We hope the bill will be improved and passed, but it is late to effectively educate the country on what is needed and earn their trust.

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Monday April 12, 2010 · 10:14 AM PDT

2010/04/12 · 10:14

The first shots of the Civil War were against Ft. Sumpter 149 years ago today. We are approaching the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, which will involve a “celebration” of the event and “education” on its history. In the past, southern apologists used these events as occasions to create a revisionist history attempting to obscure basic facts, such as that the war was started by the south to preserve slavery.
We should stick to the truth about the Confederacy and the war.
The Civil War was an immense tragedy which yielded the immense good of abolition of slavery. There is no basis for honoring the Confederacy or its leaders, but all of us, from the entire country, can join to honor all of the brave soldiers and populations, both north and south, who suffered to bring the nation through the trauma of the war into a better life.

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Saturday April 10, 2010 · 10:54 AM PDT

2010/04/10 · 10:54

Gov. Bob McDonnell's proclamation of Confederate History Month for Virginia is only the latest example of right-wing southern politicians injecting Confederate imagery into current public debate. Rather than being nostalgic for the lost past, or out of touch, this is a calculated appeal to the racist, nativists elements in the constituency. It is also a message to others, including ourselves, that they are heirs to the tough, mean, unscrupulous tradition of intransigent refusal to yield to progress. They are dangerously effective opponents.

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Saturday March 27, 2010 · 5:35 AM PDT

2010/03/27 · 05:35

We should not be surprised at the incendiary language, shattered windows, spitting on congressmen, shouted racial insults and threats against Democratic lawmakers.

This is standard operating procedure for the right-wing. It is organized, not spontaneous. It is not unique to this year, this administration or the health care issue; it is typical of right-wing resistance to progressive efforts.

Entrenched power and wealth concede nothing willingly. The country and its leaders must not be intimidated.

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Tuesday March 02, 2010 · 12:39 PM PST

2010/03/02 · 12:39

The Sunday talk shows report that the Tea Party people are "mad as hell." Well, two can play at that game. I am mad as hell, too, at the Tea Party radicals and -- more importantly, at the billionaire polluter who founded and funds them, and their right-wing allies.
We need to do more to alert the public to the vast corporate money and Republican political organization behind these purported spontaneous groups. They are not spontaneous; they are organized, orchestrated and funded -- and their tactics derive from Nazi Germany.

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Thursday June 04, 2009 · 6:55 PM PDT

2009/06/04 · 18:55

Judge Sotemayor's statements about experience leading to better legal decisions follows the great American legal tradition led by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Democrats should join Judge Sotemayor explaining to the public the importance of experience in shaping the law. We should affirm, not run from, this great American legal tradition.

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Saturday February 21, 2009 · 3:04 PM PST

2009/02/21 · 15:04

March 5 will be the 76th anniversary of FDR's declaration of a Bank Holiday. His sudden, dramatic move, announced the day after he took office, saved the national banking system, ended the American credit crisis of the early 1930s, and opened the door to begin a return to more normal economic times.

A similar move by the Obama Administration is needed to clean out the toxic financial instruments now clogging up the financial system and to create confidence that the system which remains is sound. The Administration needs the boldness and courage to lead in the face of determined opposition. Today, Obama has the public support to be tough; success will be its own reward. If efforts at moderation and bipartisanship prevent the needed success, he may not have the support to be tough in the future.

For more see:NT Times Editorial and Roubini Article in WSJ

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Thursday January 01, 2009 · 10:38 AM PST

2009/01/01 · 10:38

New Year's Wish -- Rejection of Mindless Right-Wing Platitudes As a Substitute for Thought

For New Year's, a friend forwarded to me a column purportedly by constitutional scholar Linda Monk, but actually written by Pat Buchanan. See http://buchanan.org/... Buchanan has created an incoherent compilation of platitudes (of various political views) which the right-wing is now circulating all over the internet in the name of someone else.

Buchanan's column, and its misuse, illustrate the dual right-wing tactics of substituting platitudes for real thought and simply lying about the facts.

Using these tactics, right-wing propagandists successfully obtained repeal of New Deal regulatory protections, freeing a few "malefactors of great wealth" to use financial fraud to further enhance their positions of wealth and power. The media accepted the right-wing platitudes to distract from the early evidence of the failures of deregulation.

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 7:16 PM PDT

2008/09/17 · 19:16

The U.S. is in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The economy is the most important issue in the mind of most American voters. Everyone -- including John McCain agrees that lack of effective regulation is a major cause of the ongoing financial catastrophe. John McCain was one of those responsible for removing the regulatory protections which were needed to protect the public. Obama, in contrast, has a record of supporting legislation to prevent the very disaster which is in progress. Yet -- the Obama campaign has not effectively attacked McCain for his responsibility for deregulation, and his sudden and ingenuous turn toward re-regulation as a campaign tactic. It has not even effectively displayed Obama's own outstanding record.

Like it or not, in a presidential campaign, with control of the American Government at stake, Republicans will fight tooth and toenail, fair means and foul, hitting below the belt, to win at any cost and with any tactics. If Democrats are to win, they must attack their opponents rather than being forced to be forever on the defensive.

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