Re: Obama Said to Choose Arne Duncan

[Rick Parkany <rparkany@adelphia.net>]

Well, Art...onw wouldn't sell out AFTER one wins the election, would one?

Besides, the trouble w/politics in this country is precisely that it has 
nothing to do w/candidates, as my quoted disquisitions went on to 
explain--so, once again, you missed the point and came up short of 
sense...politics in these USofA has to do w/Corporate power, the 
Corporate Citizen (the pantheon of post-modern Olympians) has 
disenfranchised we citizens born of a mother's womb, especially after 
the Supreme Court ruled that money talks and bullshit walks under the 
Roosevelt tenure...that is: cash money (a la political donation) IS free 
speech and BOTH are fungible.

Besides, who asked YOU, anywhom?   ... ;-} rap.

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"Dein Wachstum sei feste und lache vor Lust! 
Deines Herzens Trefflichkeit 
Hat dir selbst das Feld bereit', 
Auf dem du bluehen musst." 
JS Bach: Bauern Kantata 

Richard A. Parkany
Prometheus Educational Services 
http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/ 
Upper Hudson & Mohawk Valleys; New York State, USA 



aburke5054@aol.com wrote:
>  Mr. Obama has not been sworn in yet and you're dismissing him as a tool of the establishment, if not the second coming of George Bush? No, thanks.
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> From: Rick Parkany <rparkany@adelphia.net>
> To: arn-l@interversity.org
> Cc: Brian LeCloux <neaguy@hotmail.com>
> Sent: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 5:59 pm
> Subject: Re: [arn-l] Obama Said to Choose Arne Duncan
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> Ah, yes, friend Brian...and such a sensitive history teacher as you must 
> also see the sense in these observations of the American Body Politik, 
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> John Pilger (Australian journalist, documentary film-maker, and blogger) 
> very accurately wrote "US presidential campaigns...... are a ritual 
> dance macabre of flags, balloons and bullshit, designed to camouflage a 
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> based on money power, human division and a culture of permanent war". 
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> AND from a friend, Ahmed Kabel, sharing on the LNC (Language in the New 
> Capitalism list) had it: 
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> *Let us please not forget that Obama is a great product of the media and 
> public relations industry. Why? Because he is their man. And it is 
> really silly that almost everything that was said about him has to do 
> his character, his eloquence, big smiles, style and so on. Where are the 
> real issues? Of course if you can market a candy bar, you can 
> equally market a candidate. So discussions revolve around irrelevancies; 
> important issues are buried in the clutter of the personali
> ty cult. I am 
> sorry to say that insisting on the racial implications of Nader's 
> statement (i.e., that Obama is nothing but a *House Nigger*) and 
> ignoring its substance is just another example of this. Keep in mind 
> that Obama is very often compared to white folks of the likes 
> of Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton, Blair, but certainly not to King or Malcolm 
> X. Take Kennedy. It is interesting that he was also a creation of the 
> media and was also hailed as the man of change and hope. This was the 
> guy who invaded South Vietnam and visited hell on the Cubans and paved 
> the way for the takeover of Brazil by a despicable ditatorship. Change 
> and hope turned out to be mere slogans.* 
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> *Now how about Obama? Let us see what kind of change and hope he has in 
> mind. Mr. Obama has no intention to change the militaristic character of 
> American foreign policy. Indeed, he wants to increase military spending, 
> reserves, invest in counterinsurgency warfare, develop military 
> technologies and so forth. Where is the change? The military-industrial 
> complex should be rubbing their hands with glee. Nor is he intent on 
> changing the doctrine of protecting US interests by force if need 
> be. Where is international law and the UN? complete disregard. He talks 
> about a hazy plan of withdrawal from Iraq, but in reality that is a 
> redeployment of troops to Afghanistan where the core of his policy is to 
> bomb and carry out commando operations in the tribal are
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> Pakistan. Joe Biden is committed to the Balkanization of Iraq, with the 
> intention of establishing military bases and a protectorate in the 
> oil-rich Kurdistan. Not a word is said on lifting the shameful embargo 
> on Cuba. Re Iran, military options are always on the table. 
> Unconditional support for Israel is no doubt on top of his 
> agenda. Incidentally, his right hand Rahm Immanuel is the Likud 
> embassador in the White House, served in the Israeli army and is the son 
> of a terrorist responsible for the massacring of Palestinians! Change?* 
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> WhaddyThink, Brian? George Schmidt? 
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> Best of the Advent Season to you all, Folks... ;-} rap. 
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