Re: Obama Said to Choose Arne Duncan

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Are we sure his name really isn't "Art" Duncan?

Joe
Fresno, CA
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From: aburke5054@aol.com
> Just explain to Democratic Senators how your judgment about which Secretary 
> would do most for public education is oh so much superior to Mr Obama's, because 
> Mr Duncan is about to militarize, privatize, and segregate the public schools.? 
> Do let us know how things work out on that, won't you?
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> Art
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> From: Bob DeBuhr <bdebuhr@gmail.com>
> To: arn-l@interversity.org
> Sent: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 7:30 pm
> Subject: Re: [arn-l] Obama Said to Choose Arne Duncan
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> He has to be confirmed first, what steps should be taken to make that not
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> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Rick Parkany <rparkany@adelphia.net> wrote:
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> > Well, Art...onw wouldn't sell out AFTER one wins the election, would one?
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> > 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.
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> > 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
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> > aburke5054@aol.com wrote:
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> >>  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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> >>  Art
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> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> 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, as
> >> well?:
> >> 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 venal
> >> system
> >> based on money power, human division and a culture of permanent war".
> >> http://www.johnpilger.com/
> >> AND from a friend, Ahmed Kabel, sharing on the LNC (Language in the New
> >> Capitalism list) had it:
> >> *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.*
> >> ...Continuing...
> >> *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
> >> as inside 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?*
> >> WhaddyThink, Brian? George Schmidt?
> >> Best of the Advent Season to you all, Folks... ;-} rap.
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