http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2008/02/06/goodbye-super-tuesday/ Rory O'Connor's blog Mon, 12 May 2008 11:58:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2008/02/06/goodbye-super-tuesday/#comment-68173 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:32:49 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2008/02/06/goodbye-super-tuesday/#comment-68173 Bruce, WELL SAID! I am a John Edwards supporter precisely because he was saying the same things, and I was extremely saddened when he stepped aside. I hear Hillary Clinton saying these same things now and I will support her, because of it. Obama seems to think he has the skills to make everyone happy. At the same time he says he's not a good manager, and is easily distracted to the point that he has to have assistants keep him on track and feed him information. (Do we want another GW Bush type?) His own wife said, "Barack doesn't do anything that isn't easy." I can't believe the media didn't exploit that. I'm tired of Washington powerheads, Mogel-CEOs, and the Media deciding who WE hire to be OUR President. Bruce,
WELL SAID! I am a John Edwards supporter precisely because he was saying the same things, and I was extremely saddened when he stepped aside. I hear Hillary Clinton saying these same things now and I will support her, because of it. Obama seems to think he has the skills to make everyone happy. At the same time he says he’s not a good manager, and is easily distracted to the point that he has to have assistants keep him on track and feed him information. (Do we want another GW Bush type?) His own wife said, “Barack doesn’t do anything that isn’t easy.” I can’t believe the media didn’t exploit that. I’m tired of Washington powerheads, Mogel-CEOs, and the Media deciding who WE hire to be OUR President.

]]> http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2008/02/06/goodbye-super-tuesday/#comment-68169 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:14:02 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2008/02/06/goodbye-super-tuesday/#comment-68169 Hurrah for us, the young and old who are starting to take seriously our responsibility for who gets to the White House and Congress. The public, you and me, has the responsibility to do its job, especially when our government has killed, orphaned, maimed, and turned into refugees well over 1 million human beings, all based upon lies, greed, and arrogance. Especially when they keep us from having universal health care like other civilized nations. I think historian Howard Zinn says it best in his logic to our opposition to the Iraq invasion and subsequent occupation: "When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not to fall in meekly behind them. We who protest the war are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians and profiteers may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress." Let's take back OUR government from the lobbyists and the wealthy and rebuild the middle class, our infrastructure, and our reputation in the world. That is OUR job... you and me. Hurrah for us, the young and old who are starting to take seriously our responsibility for who gets to the White House and Congress. The public, you and me, has the responsibility to do its job, especially when our government has killed, orphaned, maimed, and turned into refugees well over 1 million human beings, all based upon lies, greed, and arrogance. Especially when they keep us from having universal health care like other civilized nations. I think historian Howard Zinn says it best in his logic to our opposition to the Iraq invasion and subsequent occupation: “When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not to fall in meekly behind them. We who protest the war are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians and profiteers may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.” Let’s take back OUR government from the lobbyists and the wealthy and rebuild the middle class, our infrastructure, and our reputation in the world. That is OUR job… you and me.

]]> http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2008/02/06/goodbye-super-tuesday/#comment-68168 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:04:32 +0000 http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/2008/02/06/goodbye-super-tuesday/#comment-68168 And what does "awaiting moderation" mean in this context? And what does “awaiting moderation” mean in this context?

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