With Obama Disaster Capitalism is playing an all new and improved card:
The Shock and Awe Doctrine

Too nice, I think.
Obama's another Clinton, triangulating between a continuation of Bush's foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan then opening up with Cuba, between promising transparency and covering up the bankers heist of taxpayers funds (see 4-03 Moyers), between promulgating domestic spying without warrants (see Greenwald, for one) and ending torture, maybe. You get the sense that he’s dealing out party favors so you don’t feel bad about the betrayal and continuation of the unitary executive theory.
Our first black Republican president.

Hope is a word, a representation, a shadow that our masters love us to cling to. The Red&Blue Corporate Oligarchic Party is mildly amused as we sit on our asses.

Vote the Green Party Platform and start running for offices in clusters of candidates. The platform and a 40 hr workweek is your guide and if they don't like it send them a copy of the platform so they can figure out your no-brainer position on their own.

Localize your life and start urban gardens.

Stop driving and bike-train-ped.

Stop buying anything but local food and thrift-swap-RRFM.

28th Amendment: Separation of Corporation and State.
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=43811311612

Demand to have your fulltime jobs switched to part time and double employment, giving you free time to participate in the above emancipating activities.

If they refuse, homestead your homes and share food.

That will fix their little booties...they're outta business!!!

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. "

We all know who said That! It's kind of like saying hope doesn't trickle down but instead springs upward. I have say that John F. Kennedy's speech was more inclusive or worldly. The very next line:

"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."

Even as an agnostic or perhaps especially as a deist, I find the following words powerful and still apt:

"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe - the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God."

Why should I be surprised, when Today's Obama fans start to lose faith or 'hope' in their savior. Many of us became cynics when Ronald Reagan became president. Or Nixon. Or when either Bush became president. But truthfully, when our own great hope becomes president, he has always put on that business suit that fits so snugly that it is impossible to forget all the money it takes to put it on. That once worn, not only does it trap the most virtuous, but becomes the man lost in the trappings of his own new office. And in one hundred days, he will not undo what has taken 200 years to be. No more will he be able to undo the last 8 years of leadership.

You'll have to take hope where you can find hope and make hope where there seems to be none. I'm glad the torture is ending and coming to light. I'm glad that Cuba and the US are talking. And I require that Obama regulate those bankers if I am to vote for his re-election-- it's none-negotiable.

To "quote" Adlai Stevenson: "Flattery [Hope] is all right so long as you don't inhale."

PEACEMAN,

The great hoax that most of us has bit into is that Rome was the last empire. Don’t think so. How’s about Britain? Those dirty rotten scoundrels along with the French laid waste to millions going a doing supposed acts for their pagan GOD called JESUS.

Poor Jesus name message and our hope of glory were stolen long ago and for many remains just a myth. Because what was done against mankind --- then for some the only comfort trying to justify what the BEAST OF MANKIND has done under HIS cross and name, so HE has been labeled fable.

And let us not forget the vile evil rotten bastards the Spanish and Portuguese what they did in the western Hemisphere. It was robbed before most knew what was going on. And even unto today Mexico does not make a big move unless it is approved from the BIG BOYS in Spain.

Then the list goes on to all races of mankind that is still around today. I believe that within the genetics of some of the Anglo Saxon folks the BEAST OF MANKIND was moved along from one generation to another. But in all things I stand to be corrected with facts not fiction.

DB

You should see what this guy has written...

Kudos to Naomi Klein, who had the fortitude to reveal the Truth of the NeoCon Capitalist system, for this excellent article. But I am beginning to be sick of all the Obama-bashing on CD. The insane idea that Nader or McKinney would Ever be elected is pathetic (much as I admire Nader to the extent of having his autograph.) And either one of them would have had to be elected Dictator to get their platforms done.

Another stupid idea is that Obama is Tweedle to McCain/Palin's Dumb. Those who complain about Obama need to form a viable third party NOW, for 2012, as there were NONE in 2008. Or take over the Democratic Party NOW. And quit whining about the compromise that is Obama. That is Naomi Klein's message.

Obama is not a dictator, and I harbored no illusions he alone is the solution. Gore was not the solution either, but what if Gore had been empowered rather than Bush? I think the world would be in a far better place right now. Obama's mild shift to the progressive left has already driven the right-wing trogs and their carny-barker 'leaders' batshit... in under ninety days. That is signal enough that he is trying to turn this barge of a country into more progressive waters, without blowing up the boilers.

And as far as this back-to-the-land individualism crap (worthy of coming from right-wing Republican Rugged Reaganite Marlboro-Cowboy Winner-Take-All Individualist Theocracy propagandists), well, Welcome to Cambodia under Pol Pot wherein all the evil towns were forcibly emptied, and people were forced to starve to death on their little patch of dirt.

There has to be a collective life as well as an individual private life. The collective life is politics, the politeness of getting along with one another, for the Common(ist) good. I thought that the choice between the nasty, brutal and short individualist life and the enlightening and sustaining collective life was decided with Hobbes centuries ago. Leave it to Republicans to bring back nasty, brutal and short.

And as far as violent revolution, well, the rabid right-wingers are stocking up on guns right now, and are just itching for the chance to kill a few 'commies' that want to try and take their guns and money. Believe me, the Republican Party and its voting pattern look and sound the same as the Ante-Bellum Southern Confederacy. You know what that led to. Is this the revolution you have in mind? The Second Civil War?

The deluded and deceived right-wing troglodytes are being egged on to oppose Obama and progressive socialism every minute by the satan's-legion of right-wing media blowhards under corporate domination (and these slick-talking-big-conning propagandists are far, far better paid than was Judas for their services to the Empire.)

So please, enough with the Obama-bashing from the left, too. Bash his policies, bash his choices, force him to do progressive things, but don't bash him ad hominem. Because believe me, his election is nothing short of a miracle. Be grateful that, despite all the odds and the immense satanic forces aligned against him Unto this day, even such a mildly-left politician is now President.

we have nothing to hope for but hope itself.

perhaps we need a Department of Hopeland Security.

Obama is not going to "save the world" as NK said, he won't sink the Pirate Ship he Captains. But unlike his satanic predecessors he will do some good-
Today-
A. The memos were released, and with MINIMAL REDACTIONS. This will lead to a "Flood of new disclosures." BO knew that, right on, let them squirm, Pandora's Box is being opened for all to see.
B. At the Summit Of the Americas BO reached out to Hugo Chavez, a US first and significant.
C. In Israel his envoy demanded a Two State Solution as requisite for Peace, nothing else.
D. Obama anounced he will seek to LEGALIZE 12 MILLION undocumented workers in the US.
E. And most importantly maybe, in Trinidad, Obama announced "The United States seeks a new beginning with Cuba."
Not bad for a day's work. To insist that BO does ZERO good, make NO progress where ruin existed only months ago, is JUST as ridiculous as an Obamabot as you call some deserving folks who think he walks on water. He does not. He wades through a swamp, but DIFFERENTLY, NOT the same as the Republicans-The above FIVE examples of forward movement by Obama are just TODAY. Quite true, BO does much harm, but does good also, if not, what are the above examples? Great posts, all my respect, I just submit BO does not just ill, but right on occasion too. He Captains a War-Ship, and as Chris Hedges said, we "Resist or become serfs."

US Blues, I got you bad.

Ralph Nader: Be prepared to be very disappointed with Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE7PFbK5L88

hopeprotest, hopemob, hoperiot, hopecivilunrest, hopestreetclashwithpolice, hopestopallbusinessasusual, hopeteardowncapitalism.

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I was Hopenical or Hopecautious. I'm not as clever as Naomi here. Now I'm sort of Hopissed.

I still think that with a mass movement that we could draw the change out of Obama even though I wrote in Kucinich and voted for Nader.

[ ______ ◎ _ B _ Y _ S _ M _ A _ L ______ ]

[ ______________ a _ n_ d ______________ ]

[ _____ H _ O _ P _ E _ L _ E _ S _ S _____ ]

.

"O b a m a _ u r g e s _ t h a t _ t h e _ [ t or t u r e ] _ c r i m e s _ w e r e _ j u s t i f i e d
b e c a u s e _ t h e _ d u u m v i r a t e _ a c t e d _ t o _ p r o t e c t _ t h e _ n a t i o n

___ f r o m ___ i n t e r n a t i o n a l _ t e r r o r i s m ___"

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What courageous people MUST DO,

is realize that not only has the " s m o k i n g _ g u n " been visible for quite a while,

but now we also have the _ 9 _ ! _ ! _ disaster's " l o a d e d _ g u n "

_____ that the WTC demolitions of 11th Sept 2001,

_____ had little if anything nothing to do with
_____ " international terrorism" ( other than creating it ).

There is categorically scientifically peer reviewed proof of large masses of unexploded nano-thermite residue in the WTC dusts, which is completely impossible to explain away as being the work of " international terrorists" living in caves.

[ _______________ T H E R E __ I S __ N O ________________ ]

[ ______ J _ U _ S _ T _ I _ F _ I _ C _ A _ T _ I _ O _ N ______ ]

[ ____________ F O R __ T H E __ G _ W _ O _ T ____________ ]

These red-colored millimeter and smaller sized nano-thermite explosive particles are still TODAY as powerful as dynamite, almost a decade later, and were definitely internally formed and created using the world's most sophisticated nano-miniature technology.

We are talking about physical fabrication of structures one millionth of one millimeter in size and the production and placement of possibly 100 tons of this material --- prior to the impact of the planes. There is only one possible source of this material ( LLL ).

This is the " l o a d e d _ g u n " that not only pointed AND FIRED at the the WTC towers, but also FIRED the head of every American.

An immediate, thorough, and international panel of independent experts must be assembled to bring bush and chenney to trial for war crimes, and treasonous conspiracy against the USA citizens and Constitution -- as well as the mass murders of thousands of Americans.

W E _ M U S T _ S O O N _ B R I N G _ THE _ G U I L T Y __ T O __ J U S T I C E

or the ponderous weight of this almost unimaginably wicked crime of all time -- will drag us down into the gutters of history.

Namaste

NAOMI WHO CRIED FOR A KING? NOT ME! THIS WORK IS FOR ALL OF US
By Dwight Baker
Words 285

All to often some people want someone to shame then blame when things go wrong not right. Thus is the case for most civilized so-called life today. But could that kind of mindset be civilized. I THINK NOT.

Name just one of the many civilizations that have come about---- where a high potentate, king or president --- the biggest BIG SHOT in charge led the people to a civil existence. STILL WAITING.

And we in America today are still trying to emulate the old forlorn and mostly forsaken Roman Empire. They had a SENATE composed of the BIG BARONS that had the great wealth of the nation bestowed on them ------ to watch over the BIG SHOTS, how can that be done? And likewise we still have the same twisted, convoluted ideas of political rule today. IS ---- WE JUST DUMB or WOULD WE RATHER have A SOMEONE else to shame and blame?

If so are we really civil? Civil means communal and that for sure we are not. Are we a tribe that is banded together by the RULE OF LAW? I THINK NOT. Our rule of law in America since our birth has been the crooked and perverse lawyer-ing of the SEE SAW YAW of the LAW.

Bottom line: When a people forsakes the principles in words and deeds done to rule themselves-----the tyrannical will take over and promise they will do that job for them. Then just one more repeat of HISTORY comes upon them. That is a pretty dim view [but historically correct] of how civilizations come and go and all are made to suffer in the end by their inactions to rule themselves and thus all turn loose then lose their RIGHTS to LIFE.

What can change the format for a Democracy?

WE THE PEOPLE ADVOCACY ---WE NEED TO FORM OUR OWN LOBBY.
For more info contact
Dbaker007@stx.rr.com

You're so right. As soon as I heard he had picked Summers and Geithner in November '08, I knew he was another DLC establishment corporate lackey of the plutocracy. Better than McCain, certainly, but not by that much.

Maybe some more words need to be added to this Obama lexicon.

Hopepimp: An erstwhile progressive columnist who stumps for Obama.

Hopeholic: Someone who's bought all of the Obama books and still wants more.

Hopedope: A rhetorical flourish in an Obama speech, typically having a narcotic effect on the audience. Any person so affected.

Hopeas corpus: The false hope that this longstanding legal tradition still exists, even as it's being violated by the Obama administration.

Hopelot: A group of non-governmental organizations called together by Obama to hear his hopeful speeches, without actually demanding any changes.

-TIA

NAOMI WE NEED YOU AND ALL OTHERS TO GET ON BOARD AND GET THIS DONE BEFORE IT BECOMES LATE IN THE GAME. BUT ONE THING FOR SURE GOD IS ON OUR SIDE.

THE WTPA CONCETPS –CAUSES – GOALS-- PLANS-- SURMISED AS A
WIN ------- WIN

INTRODUCTION

In our origination of the concept of the WTPA a WIN WIN agenda for progress to come to the people in America was viewed as the only sane, sound, sanguine way for our nation to bring about the changes needed to again thrust forward our goodness and hope for all to JOIN IN and be empowered to self govern again.

Demographics
When a governing body becomes too large seems all gets lost. That is the reason we deemed it necessary to identify the six regional areas in America that have the greatest numbers in population. And from that regional base office will be organized many district offices to tend to the care, concern, education, and empowerments from our advocacy for those members in all ways.

One of our major concerns today is that there seems to be not a single source advocacy center that has all the information to do the acts of equity in justice for the many citizens that have needs that our current agencies are empowered to deliver. As a consequence many good folks fall through the cracks in our great society and are lost for they do not have the skills, transportation, or connectivity with others who can assist them along through the many hallways and corridors of the in-take processes and paper work in our cities, counties, states and federal agencies. And the most overlooked and unfortunate of those folks are the elderly, veterans, and are our weary citizens who many have mental and physical disabilities.

Broad spectrum of Advocacy and Educational pursuits
For the many that enlist in the WTPA as a WTWT member our goal during the IN-TAKE development is to set up a file member database to be used to guide that person along the best path of their needs and choosing.

These advocacy services will be at no cost to the members, books and educational materials will be at cost and likewise will be the programs suggested and WTPA will be negotiate for the best price with those vendors for our member services, WTPA will not make a profit from any of this work.

1. Become prepared and placed in line for a paying job with the WTPA
2. Continuing education in College or University to be placed in line for a position with the WTPA or one of its many affiliates.
3. Veterans affairs
4. Social Security
5. Department of Human Services
6. Mental health agencies
7. Drug and alcohol rehab programs
8. GED sources
9. College and Universities programs – requirements for entry- grants—scholarships etc.
10. Educational aids-books computer hardware and software programs etc.
11. Local within District job fairs, available jobs, housing, on the job training programs,
12. Job placement services
13. Connectivity with other members who have business with needs to employ good people.
14. Free postings on the districts web site for all members to use for ---jobs needed and/or employment offered.
15. Provide a column per day on the district web site for those with writing aspirations.
16. Open forums will provide the way for those who would like to pursue a career in public speaking.
17. WTWT Members will be affiliated with those Founders in STAR POWERS IN ACTION within their district.
18. Members will enjoy the frequent gatherings of fellow members in WTPA arranged and sponsored activities to include children activities, group discussions, and leisure and recreations times spent together indoor and outdoor locations in the district.
19. Members who have a sense to serve in the political area will in time learn the steps needed to become prepared for that position, by becoming more informed at the local county state levels to be a better informed citizen thus proving ones worth to lead.

During the in-take process a Broad Spectrum of Enlistees will be identified that has Earned the Rights to Teach and Educate --- University and College Administrators Professors, PhDs, Scientist, local teachers, public speakers, educators of all kinds, Political figures, Law enforcement officers and officials, men/women in the decision making process involved in banking commerce and trade and the service segment of our American enterprise etc.
1. All members will find more hope and inspiration from those mentioned. Because those local folks will help inspire the forums that is at the very heart of the WTPA to become the CHANGE that is needed in our democratic republic government.

NAOMI THERE IS SO MANY GOOD VOICES OUT THERE THIS IS THE DEED TO GO WITH THE VOICES

The SECOND plan is to reach out to those who could assist with the primary funding of the concept we have named those our BRIGHT STAR Founding Financial Advisors Directors and Donors such as Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Foundations, Think Tanks, Charities, AARP, Consumers Union, Peterson Foundation, Ford Foundation, Labor Unions, School Teachers Unions, ETC. $1,000----$5,000------$10,000-----$100,000----$MILLIONS. In the form of donations and grants.

The THIRD plan We will petition and plea with many in the public lime light now --- in all forms of media --- that have the goals of saving our rich heritage as we do ---- to come on board to be a contributor to the cause as they have proven to be ---- to take our near and long term goals to completion. We have named that group our Founding STAR POWERS IN ACTION our Directors in Media. The list of those to contact that have proven their will to survive in these past turbulent times and that recognizes the synergy in what are concept can do will make sense to them and they will enlist JOIN IN. That number of folks that met those objectives is long varied, wide and deep with intellect, personality, name recognition therefore we need to reach out best as we can for all to help to give freely to get the ball rolling ---- for the timing is right in our generation --- and all is in place to get that done in near record breaking time. Some of those many prospective Founding STAR POWERS IN ACTION our Directors in Media and donors/ actors may see the need to combine their present efforts with the WTPA by bringing there hard ware and/or software and some people to aid in the promulgation of the mission to our Office complex in Washington DC that will be the home of our group of Constitutional Lawyers and legal specialist, staff, media folks.

And in that cooperative group effort all will begin bringing in the will of the People then making the lawful matters published that is needed for the People in America to convey to our Politicians the redress of laws and edicts and the changes needed NOW. And from that same group of folks plans will be made to broadcast the real NEWS not views on CSPAN nightly.

The thrust and power that can be had from our Founding STAR POWERS IN ACTION our Directors in Media donors/actors working as contributing partners as groups or single parties will propel the WTPA concept to come to life. ---As Amy Goodman---Naomi Klein ETC. We have high hopes that we can get the entire crew of three hundred or more to work the work of the concept from the same page seeing the pressing need for our Democratic Republic to step up and out with the power of the people for all to have a Vested Voice and Vote for all polices, laws and agendas at the cities, counties, states and federal levels. Each regional web page will make available to the enlisted STAR POWERS IN ACTION to advertise at no charge their books for sale, their own web sites----speaking engagement -etc –for a win/win will ensue for the WTPA and our STAR POWERS IN ACTION when they reciprocate by publishing the WTPA in their books, publications, radio and televised media and on each web site --- spreading the word amongst the many that follow them to enlist JOIN IN to the WTPA.

NAOMI WE NEED YOU TO HELP US POWER PUSH THIS ALONG

FIRST To go out on the Internet to seek out those who would be willing to JOIN IN our Grass Roots actions needed to get people to work now toward the actions needed to give us the power in people and contributions to go forward. That grass roots group of folks we have named the TRUSTED WATCHMAN ON THE WALL Or TWTW. To enlist as a member and contributor the charge for a Life Time Fully Vested Voice heard and Voting member would be from [free to $25 per month] pursuant to the rules in the in-take process. This group is expected to represent 95% of our financial and grass roots political persuading strength that is needed to birth the concept that it can show it value to all others in the or Democratic Republic. And it is unto that group that all our window dressings on our publicly aired presentations of whom we are and what we do needs to bring attention. Those millions moms, dads, plumbers, tile layers, construction workers, longshoremen, nurses, auto mechanics, truckers, union workers all of those good to the core American people that we adore and want to make their lives more blessed and abundant. In the in-take process we will seek out those contributing worker partners that have skills to come on board to work as a Grass Roots Organizer with hopes to turn full time as director, attorneys, needed staff in the six regions and in DC the upper echelon jobs that will need to be filled. Then each several days articles of importance for that sector of the nation will be published for commenting by those that [enlist only] and allow comments to be made, then comments to those comments made ---- that will give the WTPA the base for a good informed forum for discussion to bring light too many views that will instill in those [enlisted] power to share views and with one another in a communed sense of belonging and working for the common cause of the Rights to Life for everyone and Equity in Justice as code of Honor. We will search for six sweat equity Regional Directors throughout the USA to organize and oversee the staff of volunteers to quickly and directly respond to the many in-takes from their regional area that JOIN IN at our main web site in DC. Each Region will be empowered with their own computer server to work for those that have enlisted. We believe that we will see top notch folks that have a zeal and a will too get the organizational matters and message out right away and as they do in their own words and deeds as our plans requires with aid from DC when needed --we expect that group to drive the concept train of WTPA right down the track full steam ahead till it reaches the destination.

It will be the responsibility of each person as a TWTW to pay each month [from –0- to $25 per month] as a Vested contributing/member to have their vested voices heard and their votes counted. And for the many in America that do not have a computer they can JOIN IN by mail and we will make a way for their voices to be heard and their votes to be counted in each region and district that will be stressed as a need to aid those best way in the connectivity issues raised daily on each web site connecting with all other members. And from that group the TWTW we will garner 95% of the needed funds to operate the entire effort, as it should be in a Democratic Republic. It is our valid assumption that as time progresses and folks start sharing and giving their ideas that all the [seemed mazes] that no one has been able to think through, at this time in our American history --- will be seen by some like moms, dads, grandmas, uncles aunts from all walks of life and all jobs and professions. WHY? Because they have been in tear filled thoughts and prayers just waiting and wanting to get their voices heard so they could help. WHY because they love all people and have an abiding sense to preserve their posterity in having an innate sense of civic duty that can overcome all odds.

Araquin, all very good points. Instead of bitching about what we aren't getting, work with what we have and start public protests. We need to start demanding investigations and laws out of Congress. That's their job. Time they did it. Find some progressive candidates to replace corporate flacks. That's why the entire House has an election every 2 years.

When the people fear their government there is tyranny,
when the government fears the people there is liberty.
~ Thomas Jefferson

NAOMI PLANS FOR OUR FUTURE
Executive Summary

We are consumed, committed and loyally devoted in forming our own not profit American entity for the People at large to have their own truth filled lobby in Washington DC.

The CONCEPT of the We the Peoples Advocacy WTPA is designed for the Voices of the lifetime-vested members and contributors to have their voices heard and voting rites on all issues be heard then represented with the legal power of lobby to implement and be pushed along in Washington DC. We are apolitical and non-religious. Our total concept/cause is to represent the People in America preserving their Rights to Life in all areas, while holding all to the Laws in our Constitution and preserving our national communed held wealth in all areas while bringing those to account that have others visions for the welfare, safety and longevity of the People in the USA while demanding that we remain solvent and have protections for our sovereignty to endure.

Our CAUSE is to bring a new dimension to our Democracy that is at this time viable with the advent of the Internet and state of art computer technology.

Our PLAN is to provide the means to affect this change in people, soft ware, hardware and investigations and representation for the People in America to have a Vested Voice and Vote concerning the many issues, matters and things that originate and get passed into law in Washington DC that affects each persons life. The People have a need to know and vote on all matters. When the CONCEPT is commercialized we can rest assured that the People at large that have enlisted as members and contributors will have access to all information and have a good forum for intense discussion with others that their communed Voices will be heard and Votes counted preserving the Peoples Rights to Life in all areas, While our Directors in Constitutional Law and the cadre of Attorneys have oversight in origination of legal matters that hold all the People taken as a whole to the Laws in our Constitution and preserve our national communed held wealth in all areas while bringing those to account that have other visions for the welfare, safety and longevity of the People in the USA ---- while demanding that the People at liberty remain solvent and have protections for their sovereignty to endure.

One BROAD GOAL of the WTPA is to promote pro-social friendships, stronger interpersonal inclusive communication skills, and reassert a sense of hope in the future. To accomplish this goal, people must be engendered into a caring, inclusive learning and giving back environment that promotes their best efforts and reinforces respect for self and others with all having a deep abiding respect for the laws of our land.

A specific GOAL of the WTPA is to identify the needs, wants, desires and wishes of the people who are going to have a turbulent transition back to being a contributing part of our society. By offering them a positive support systems in advocacy that will help avert and avoid the pitfalls that can derail our society and their individual lives. The focus is slightly different at each level of the governing bodies in the cities, counties, states and federal levels but the goal remains the same; empowering the people to make positive declarations of their needs, wants, desires and wishes that they believe will bring the needed changes in their lives and for those that are located around them.

A PLAN of WTPA is to have a director and staff in six regional offices covering the expanse of population in the grass roots of the American people that will present the generalized needs, wants, desires and wishes of those enlisted in each regional division. That information gathered will be a part of the in-take process. The WTPA will provide those that enlist positive support systems in advocacy that will help them avert and avoid the pitfalls that can derail our society and their individual lives. The WTPA will encourage mentoring programs at all levels in the input process and will pair each new member with a mentoring group for 12 months. The WTPA staffers will arrange the times and places for the monthly meetings at which times a guest speaker of importance will chair --- such as those form academy in colleges and universities that have likewise become members. New members will receive continuous training throughout the year in matters of importance at their city county state and federal level of needs, desires, and wants to become a matter to thrust forward for the Advocates purview for leadership roles in the foundations of all Democratic ruled societies. During that time many people young and old alike will prove their innate worth, as they become and join the ranks of the aspiring well educated, students then teachers, leaders, role models, mentors and advocates in their communities at large providing to all the scope and mission of the WTPA to promote the Rights for Life for everyone. Assessing their Voices and Votes from informative forums on our private web site dedicated to the many needed causes for action. The WTPA director and staff will develop partnerships with those that enlist being employed by cities, counties, states and federal entities to continue that same need to be explained to others in their workforce arena. All members should be involved in the need to enlist others to become a member and contributor in the WTPA to again strengthen the message of HOPE.

Our SCOPE has two business plans

Our PLAN to fund the WTPA

NAOMI MORE GOOD WORDS

Preamble
We the People in Unity
Declare

We believe that our United States of America has grown in population such that our voices in representation in our federal government has diminished to a degree that we must in solidarity form our own We the People Advocacy to lobby in Washington DC. To make our voices heard once again.

When we were a young nation of less that five million the size of our Congress and Senate had an ear to the grass roots needs of our people. Our population now is over three hundred million and the size of our Congress and Senate has not keep up with our growth. Therefore We the People in Unity declare that our city, counties states and Federal Governments have grown too centralized, too intrusive, too exclusive and too expensive.

We believe in Constitutional oversight by the people, smaller governments, Rights to Life for everyone in civil liberties, federalism, and taxes that span the great gulf of all our contributing members and resources and be assessed with equity for all.

We the People in Unity want to make a stern call to all elected and charged to govern us to end laws and programs that don't work, eradicate the laws, programs and agencies that cause harm, and cause a call from our Department of Justice to summons those that have clearly violated the basic tenets of our Laws in our Constitution to be held to account.

We the People in Unity want the power to restore the full force of ALL the amendments, in our Constitution which will bring back the power to us to govern ourselves in all needed sane sanguine and society social functions and end NOW our needless and warrant less wars ---- and in the future ----deny the use of all preemptive aggressive wars that have robbed from us our people and our communed treasury.

NAOMI HERE IS SOME MORE GOOD WORDS

THE ANSWER

Introduction to the WTPA
ALL SHOULD SEE NOW ---THAT WE NEED OUR OWN
LOBBY IN WASHINGTON DC.

So what are we to do? A good idea is for us is to form our own lobbying efforts. The concept is not new the Grange did a similar thing and changed the way our federal Government worked ---http://www.nationalgrange.org/

In some foreign countries advocates for the people are doing likewise, in America today many advocates that help those with disabilities are do the same.

FOLKS we are 5 million strong, simply saying ----- we must mount a front to confront the ones who use money thrown at lobbyist to get what they want that most times those things are at odds with the American populous needs, wants and wishes.

In saving of our Nation --- a people sound sane and grounded in being kind, caring, loving their fellow man here in the USA and around the world are going to be the ones to lead us into a better form of Democracy. In doing we cannot live in a dream-enhanced state such as some want to do---- with heads in the clouds waiting for some ONE to come along and fix the mess that we are in. We must take Action in the use of our words first then our deeds will follow represented here as our plan for the WTPA --- that lays claim that many People want to be a working contributing part of our civil society where all would have the Rights to Life regardless of their education, status in life, creeds, customs or color of their skin.

Now the WTPA has arrived and is the Good Change with thundering in the clouds that will produce a cool rain that will shower down on all ----- that has a desire to work toward getting ----then giving all Americans a voice in our Democracy. Thus held in your hands is We The Peoples Advocacy or WTPA our grand plan to help aid all the People at large in America the thrust needed to improve our Democracy.

We believe a forum for discussion is a primary need for our society. We see a great need to get the American People informed with the hard-core matters that are at hand. Seemingly there are many items matters and things that are disguised in an effort to gain more sympatric response from the other less others that have not the training or educational skills to purge deeply for hidden agendas or quirks in the use of LAWS that seem good but at the core are wrong for the American Masses for them to have the Rights to Life as was intended long ago and was the heartbeat of our elders.

NAOMI DO YOU LIKE THESE WORDS?

We the People in Unity
Declare

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of WE THE PEOPLE, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted falters and fails in substantive issues, matters and things we must re-institute in a legal form for our voices and votes to be heard.

And so far the present form of our Federal Government has not been a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, but has become an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression:

When the Constitution of our country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of our government has been forcibly changed, without WE THE PEOPLES consent, from a democratic republic, composed of sovereign states change must come and quickly.

Our Federal Government has in many ways become a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest if pursued could degenerate the Rights of the Life of its citizens by the Federal Investigative and Enforcement Law.

And in the recent past our Executive Branch of the Federal Government and all that become appointed and employees to duties both have proved to be the eternal enemies of our civil liberties and have made visible the ever-ready minions of power, the usual instrument of tyrants and to that end we as a People must demand indictments be brought to bear on the offenders in perfecting the laws of our Constitution.

When, long after the spirit of the Constitution has departed, those in power at length, so far lose moderation that even the semblance of freedom has been removed and to that end we as a People must take up a legal stand to demand change.

And when all the forms of the Constitution has been discounted and discontinued to a meaningless set of laws and edicts for which all citizens should abide by and live we, as People must demand a legal oversight for change.

And so far many petitions and remonstrance's have been regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into all sorts of terror filled restraints inclusive prisons of despair, and mercenary agents and armies have been dispatched to force sovereign citizens in America and some in other Nations at the point of the tools of war:

And when, the present matters of great concern if not stopped now the consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the part of our federal government, anarchy will prevail, and our civil society will be dissolved into its original elements.

In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable right of WE THE PEOPLE to appeal to first principles and take their political affairs into our own hands in extreme case, enjoins it as a right towards us.

And it is a sacred obligation to our posterity and us to make legal certainty that the many offenders in the military and federal government as elected executives, employees, appointees, and envoys are indicted or impeached, tried, convicted, fined, banished with no impunity.

And in such causes to be Constitutionally elicited ---- worthy others are to be empowered as substitutes in lieu of the next term of elected officials to resume elected powers, calculated to rescue WE THE PEOPLE from impending dangers, and to secure our future welfare and happiness in all legal actions needed to preserve our solvency and sovereignty.

Therefore the problems in our Congress today -- is such that our country has far too many in population today to be served by such a limited few.

Accordingly We The People has put our best effort forward to elect a President to take the lead and do what is right for us. And that effort appears to have become a languishing effort or a far cry from getting what is needed done today about the failed fraught with fraud past and if not changed now will set a lackluster legal precedent for our future as well.

Lobbyist represents the very ones that have caused the erratic decline of our nation. They write many of the laws that go on to be voted, by our Congress and Senators that have never read the contents. Thus We The People must enter that same arena and write the laws that protects and serves our interests, forming our own LOBBY in Washington DC to protect all our rights to life.

The BUSH Administration in all of its known derision, decadents with actions by dissenters, in our rich and abundant America and world wide too has caused multiple disasters and that has aroused an awareness of those with Patriotic views to stand firm, shoot out with strident voices and not to back down or cower but to press on toward moving our Democratic Republic to a restored legal right and height for representation of the people to be fully restored.

Some Barons of banking, trade and commerce, the makers of the tools of war and many others that need to stay under our protection of us as a Nation --- has caused multiplicities of infractions against us while they took care business their own way. And many times that has involved killing innocence people out and about in the world’s populations. Black Water works for Chevron in the Congo and it has been reported that Bush created AFRICOM to do likewise under the guise of propping up failing Democracies. It is reported that We the People pay for and to that end support over seven hundred active military installations throughout the earth today and up till now we have had no recourse or redress against those kind of military actions.

DwightBaker

What? I did try to "do the work" I set a date... are we going to do this wor what? Sick out -19th or 20th of May... What'd ya say?

EQUITY FOR ALL IN ACTS OF JUSTICE

If this our generation alive on planet earth TODAY does not get it and then push for it to be expanded prolonged extended that all have the rights to life in acts of justice with equity. Then MY TAKE we as the willing and able to help lead the many that are NOT ---- should have never been born and had a time to live.

And that is the WAKE UP call for all. To stop the idiotic jabber--- grab ass and those that prefer to wallow around in their own stupidity instead of getting behind a well thought out plan then grabbing each others hands and work the work that must be done to get saving our Rich and Abundant America.

Dwight Baker We The Peoples Advocacy WTPA leading the way out of mediocrity to a new day with Rights of Life for everyone with Justice in equity.
For info contact Dbaker007@stx.rr.com

Ok am I loosing my mind? I know I just made a comment about setting a date for the sick out - I'm sure I have the right article. yes I did respond with same on another article but ....

I suggest the sick out to be may 19 or 20th . I feel that that gives sufficient time for organization and well, it works out to be a good day to be sick-er. That would be a tues or wed...

Who's biting
or suggest soemthing else...

and again why are we sicking out? To get prosecution of those that smeared our constitution and laughed in the face of the Treaties that were made to keep ourselves humane and to keep our own troops safe from retribution.

Well, I am 85 and my middle name is Hope but long ago I discovered that hope can be just wishful thinking unless it is 'evidential hope' and that is a do-it-yourself' project.

And I voted for Kicinich in the primary and then Nader--to keep some glimmer of hope that there are those who are truly dedicated to worthy causes and do not just want to be 'the imperial decider.' Not sure what I would have done if I lived in a 'swing' state--maybe gagged on the charisma and voted for Obama in spite of the red flags I noted before the election.

YES. And NO, at the same time.

I've just watched the April 16 Daily Show on the net. The "Tea Parties" were not exactly headline news in Europe, so I didn't know that much about them. I was shocked when I realized that the right-wing media of America, with Fox as cheerleader, is trying to build up grass-roots movements to make life really difficult for Obama. They didn't miss a beat.

I've watched the American Right and their efforts to unseat Clinton using methods which would have been called a cold coup d'état in any developing country.

There weren't any millions of Americans who took to the streets when it happened.

And I am watching right now how the Right is trying to undo another election result.

I don't see any millions who hit the street to prevent that either.

I agree that Obama isn't radical enough. I am shocked that the crimes of the past administration will not be prosecuted. They should be - primarily as a warning to the entire secret services community and the armed forces.

This is exactly the point of dragging Ex-Yugoslavian warlords to The Hague and putting them on trial, BTW. The prime goal is the warning to the rest out there: No, there is no impunity. Yes, we'll get you in the end! You better think twice about committing crimes just because you think you are allowed to. Use your conscience!

This lesson is one which CIA operatives PLUS too many Americans at large are still in dire need of learning. Obama prevented that learning process.

This "they were acting under orders" smacks of the line of defense all higher-up Nazis used in Nuremberg, after all.

BUT: The Obama administration is facing the usual intense fire from America's fascistoid Right, and this is where the Left ought to close ranks, IMO.

You can't have 250,000 people demonstrate for something as ridiculous as they do - I wish my taxes were as low as American taxes, but then again, I wouldn't want to have to endure American-style tax-starved infrastructure or health care, unless I was rich, in return, thank you very much!! - and not come to Obama's rescue!

One has to choose the right moment to pick a fight. Right now, even the little Obama is trying to accomplish is under attack.

With mostly extreme right-wing or simply dumb mass media in place, the real battle is elsewhere. The Right is trying another coup d'état, of course. I have always been questioning their commitment to democracy. So please don't get distracted again!!

Hit back! Take to the streets. Outdo their numbers.

Only afterwards is the time to get tough with Obama, I fear.

Progressive Americans have to act to the backdrop of the population they've got to deal with: Mostly uneducated, easily excitable, unsolidary, glued to right-wing TV and tremendously greedy.

Sorry, I know that none of you is like that, but these are the facts. And facts, not emotions, ought to guide the American Left's strategy.

Bashing Obama right now (I have never been an Obama fan, BTW) is just counterproductive. Hit him later. Hit your little fascists first!

Obama was elected as the leader but he needs his supporters and believers to harshly and immediately redefine the ambit and goals of his mission.

The presidency of the United States must be guided by the aspirations and informed consent not of the vested interests and corporate oligarchs but of all the people who strove to believe not in Obama as a presidential celebrity but in his pronounced mission. Obama's mission is creeping away from the guidance of its supporters and into collusion with the old parasites who drain America and feed the world to its unleashed corporate vampires.

The president needs guidance, not from the chiefs of defense staff, but from those thoughtful citizens from whom his mission was entrusted. Few presidents before Obama have invoked greater public aspirations and none have achieved stronger informed electoral support for their missions. But, the corporate parasites need to entangle Obama in violent intrigues, illegal operations, and labyrinthine wars the exits from which only they control. This president needs to reject their council and consider them the age old enemy of freedom.

We the people without fear or want of favour must advise him so and stand accountable because hope, faith and despair will not advance the American mission.

Michael Major\\

Boy, this place sure has changed since I last commented...

So Naomi, is it just coincidence you've never responded to my or others' appeals to engage us in discussing mathematically perfected economy(TM), or are you actually capable of proving there is more than one actual, integral solution for the categoric faults of a pretended monetary system *which can only* multiply debt in to terminal debt?

What *is* that alternate solution, Naomi?

The same one which Obama's "Economic Policy Team" refuses to answer to?

mike montagne

PEOPLE For Mathematically Perfected Economy

The sleep of war,like hops and poppy to sedate the fear, awakened to find the war over and no further wisdom of how to live together only to tired to fight longer.

Involvement in governance for one day brings in elected dictatorship. If we want to see things change, I think people need to persevere. The lobbyists and vested interests are there everyday and people should be there too.

This articles takes me back to the good ol' days of browsing through urbandictionary.com

My favorite entry: "You really fucked up, Negroponte."

All it took was obama cozying up to corporate america and izrael, when it appeared he had a chance of being the democrat nominee for me to go to a third party. I knew it wouldn't change much and even though the crap he was left with from w & dick's fiasco can't be fixed, replaced or undone in 100 days or 100 weeks, I knew I wouldn't be unindated with a hopeover. Just another typical national election in the land of OZ where the curtain the 'man/men' hide behind needs tearing down exposing their real identities.

Nader has a great article at Counterpunch explaining EXACTLY what to do about Obama and his fellow greedsters.

Hope is transitory, delusionary and overrated. As the Dutch said while struggling against the 17th century superpower Spain: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

Why do I get the sour feeling that by the end of Obama's term, the words "hope" and maybe even "change" will be dirty words?

I hope that Obama will stand against the left wing conservatives that want to assassinate his character and the right wing conservatives that also want to assassinate his person and take progressive actions despite the regressive allure of Mammon's siren songs.

we cannot continue to live our industrial life, yet our planet's corrupted governmental structures are intending to do just that...we have no way forward but to abandon the delegated, property-owning, industrial life for one in which we take our own individual rights and responsibilities back...a planetary cease-fire from human destruction, if you will...we grow our own food and make our own shelter and put out our own fires and police our own communities according to our own laws and treat our own illnesses...we have stepped outside of our minds and bodies, handed them to the Nation, and are watching our lives transpire reactively as others would have them...we must step back into our minds and bodies and use them proactively to deliver our own sustenance and salvation...

I propose we all begin to do these things on September 22, 2012, and that we use the intervening years to re-establish the robust vegetable and animal infrastructure we will need...think of it as building a planet to house our species, and all of the other myriad creatures...we already have a big ball with air and water and sunlight to work with...

I'm not surprised at all that this happened, and I'm kind of glad it happened so early on. Obama snowed so many people, and he smiled because it was so d*mn easy. He only needed to have a dark face and use the word "change" without any explanation of what those changes would be. The dark face was a mask, because behind it is the same corporate shill face that has been running this country and the world into the ground for far too long.

I just wish that all those people who wanted a dark face in the White House, could have voted for REAL change and voted for McKinney instead of letting the white corporate media tell them WHICH black face they should vote for.

If the corporate media WANTS you to vote for anyone -- no matter what the race or gender -- you say NO, THANK YOU, FACIST MEDIA! And cast your vote for the candidate who REALLY represents you.

When Nixon exposed to the world what the rulers of the U.S. were really like, they put in Jimmy Carter to fool the world into thinking that the U.S. was serious about fixing their system, but all they were interested in was a fresh face which expressed honesty. Behind the scenes all the old players continued to run things as they always did, except for a few minor attention grabbers that could be paraded. After the disaster presidency of Bush jr, which ranks it in the same, unacceptable, category as Nixon's presidency, the owners put in Obama, and they did it for the exact same reason that they put Carter in: Because they were frightened.

“I believe strongly in transparency and accountability... The United States is a nation of laws."
Pres. Obama April 16

BAIL OUT: There is no accountability or transparency for the billions of taxpayer funds given to Wall Street crooks.

SPYING ON US: There is no accountability or transparency in the NSA's massive and illegal interceptions of emails and phone calls of American citizens.

MORE WAR: The Iraq war and murder of women and children continues, the Afghan-Pakistan war and murder of women and children grows.

WAR CRIMES & TORTURE WITH IMPUNITY: Torturers go free with no special prosecutor or independent inquiry. The rule of law, International treaties, and the US Constitution ignored.

CHANGE WE CAN NOT BELIEVE!

PE

Now that Obama has shown his true corporate colors, you have at most one year to find an acceptable 3rd party candidate to get behind...otherwise get used to disappointment.

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." - John Keats

Obama : The Audacity of Protecting War Criminals

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." - John Keats

I guess that after a year Obama will be named "boot-shining boy"... Shining up the same old boot that Bush had and all the earlier presidents Just some glossing on the surface to make it more easy to swallow for naive Europeans and US citizens...

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B-o-r-i-n-g.

Wake me when you're ready to do something about this s**t.

Z-zzzzzzzzzzz

"Hope is the longing for a circumstance in which we have no agency."

Example: I do not hope to drive my car, I just do it. I hope that I will not be ploughed into by an eighteen wheeler while sitting at a light.

Hope is wishful thinking, day dreaming. It relieves us of responsibility for doing something by promising a savior.

It feels good, as does all mental masturbation.

A scene in a recent movie was an artist pleading with a communist party boss to allow him to return to work. When he asked "Am I right to hope?" the corrupt official said "Of course. As you know, hope dies last."

Very clever, Naomi Klein. And the most important observation is the tendency to go from hope to apathy. That is, people are not wanting to take responsibility for their lives, they want to be saved. That's not going to happen and Obama warned us it won't happen before he was elected.

I agree that the rulers of America aren't elected or even known. They live behind the curtain. And they are afraid of us, because we actually are the ones with the power. We outnumber them. The French peasants figured that out, and they haven't forgotten it.

When the people fear their government there is tyranny,
when the government fears the people there is liberty.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Obama makes one false move that the power class can't abide . . . he joins JFK.

USers have to understand what species of deranged human garbage rules the US.

...Becuase the author is right, WE NEED TO START DEMANDING...

And yet, many of us weren't fooled.

We saw through the fraud. And felt sorry for the mooncalves who battled the bitter cold on Jan 20 to witness Bush transfer power to his clone.

Progress can't be achieved by voting for a Democrat. Or Republican. Ever.

WOW- GREAT ARTICLE!~

As I just wrote on another article,the one about (the torture memo's) it'e time.

Let'w have a sick out day -set the date. Becuase I for one am getting sicker and sicker, call it hopesick.

Just adding my 2 cents worth.....Does everyone really believe that the President of the United States really has power? I no longer do. I believe the President is a figurehead and those around him/her have all the real power...especially the military/Pentagon and believe it or not....some foreign nations, i.e., Israel, Saudi Arabia, China. The President does not act alone and cannot act as his conscience dictates....not yet anyway.

I never had any great hope in Obama, nor was any warranted. During the campaign he appeared to be the fork-tongued Clintonesque triangulator he has turned out to be. No genuine progressive could find hope in such an individual. So the very premise of the article, that there was grounds for great hope, is what must be looked at. What makes so many Americans vulnerable to being chumps . . . again and again and again? Why are so many progressives like an abused spouse, who thinks maybe her abusive husband won't beat her up again, because now he's gotten a facelift and has made lots of new promises? Obama is the oligarchy's facelift.

odoco
Just read where Obama administration is still invoking Bush's policy of not allowing Maher Arar to enter the United States. Arar is the Canadian citizen who was illegally kidnapped and tortured - Canada already has admitted guilt in case.

No, this isn't change I can believe in. In fact, it sickens me.

Excellent article Naomi!

Your final statement: "Hoperoots. Sample sentence: "It's time to stop waiting for hope to be handed down, and start pushing it up,from the hoperoots." begs the question why is our hope either a hand me down or hidden in some mysterious roots waiting for us to push it up? Is this the nature of hope? I think a good understanding of hope and it's place with humans is asking to be discussed.

thank you, ms. klein. keep pounding on that bell. if that doesn't get their attention, there are other ways.

george m. _ "i'm all for starting a violent revolution. i think this is the only way out of this mess." you are so right. the passive approach only works in tea rooms and pansy gardens and with those wearing rose colored glasses.. as long as our approach remains the same, i.e. watching bailout after bailout and cover-up after cover-up to and for these sorry excuses of humanity, they aren't too concerned about us.

on the other hand, it is a certainty that the monitoring of our protest posts here and elsewhere has sent them some sort of red flag. if it hasn't, then they are dumber than we believe them to be, and they should be removed from office and boardroom. in any manner necessary. this will most likely happen in a seemingly unlikely manner from a seemingly unlikely person or group. and from that action will true hope for the american people spring forth. only then will we have their attention.

"a patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." - edward abbey

I knew Obama was bogus when his supporters conducted the sleaziest primary campaign ever. Real Democrats don't run smear campaigns.

Two things stick in my mind: Obama's genuflecting to AIPACE before the election, and the information on free trade and his implicit support of same (Chicago School - Friedman) actually existing on his campaign website. Definite red flags - yes, I did vote for him, but unlike my usual campaign status, I did not hit the streets for him. Many supporters in my little hometown were upset with me because of this, but something just didn't seem to fit . . .Something else that is becoming a growing concern of mine is Obama's glorification of the military. The implications of that, along with the military being engaged domestically at least twice within the past year (California DUI traffice stops and the shooting in a southern state where the military showed up - against the law - and no one has ever divulged who called them or why).

At this point in m life I trust no one. I believe nothing I hear. I am witness to acts and consequences: that witness, actual, tangible, will forever be the sole basis for my belief system. I don't want to give up on this man, my heart tells me not to, but it seems that there have been so very, very many disappointments, and many of them moral in nature. If someone is not held accountable for all the crimes committed in the past, both economic and military, there will be no change in the future, there will be no hope for a better future, but there will be similar and repeated transgressions because the people who run this country never have to pay a price for their crimes committed against the common people.

All may not be well, but the spin is still in high gear.
From disappointment to deception to disgust.
Like the gulf between what the public wants and cares about to government pronoucements of the conventional wisdom, the rift grows increasingly wider.
So, they will prop up Obama for as long as they can, but judging by the first regressive 100 days, the spinning will be winding down to a dizzy twirl.

Obama has said that he needs support from the ground to do anything constructive. Why not take him at his word? I'm as pessimistic as anyone about real change, but before we start shouting gloom and doom, why not take him at his word?
As long as the progressive citizens in this 'democracy' sit on their asses whining and complaining, nothing will change. Even the neo-conservative corporate sponsored Republicans are out there with their little tea parties. Are we going to let them represent us? Is that all Obama will have to listen too? I'm all for starting a violent revolution. I think this is the only way out of this mess. I don't believe this country has ever had the necessary sort of ground-swell revolution against 'landed interests'. But on the other hand, let's see how far Obama is willing to go if we start shouting in his ear. It's worth a try.

Never marry your candidate. Though I voted and caucused for Obama, it was in fear of First Dude wandering the White House with personel files under his arm. I mean, what kind of choice was that? My candidate, Edwards, flames out philandering with a flakey campaign aide. Collectively we need to realize that money rules this system, as we now see the ruling class is emptying out the remains of our wealth to cover their gambling debts. A real movement with ideas and thinking people would be nice. No more of this thinking that one person will change our course. That's nice for dictatorships, shouldn't be considered in a democracy.

What's really disturbing about this administration, is it's response to the FISA lawsuits. Their term "sovereign immunity" in response to violating our rights. We had a revolution to throw off a sovereign. And poof, what do you know, we have another one.

There goes yet another campaign promise down the drain. Secretary of Defense Gates who presumably speaks for the President because he has discussed the issue with him said that ending "don't ask, don't tell" of our armed forces will be difficult and take years. He did not say how many years.

All of this is a warning for enthusiastic Obama supporters in 2012. If you believe anything he promises you during that campaign will be severely disappointed again.

It is increasingly becoming evident that Mr. Obama was merely a hot-air spewing demagogue during the 2008 campaign.

Furthermore, his "advice" to Cuba to "straighten out" (i. e. a change WE but not necessarily the Cuban people can believe in!) before all Americans can travel there and before Obama can lift the sanctions is ludicrous. Mexicans obviously don't accept his arrant nonsense. Mexicans can travel legally wherever they want to in the world and despise our Cuban sanctions.

Suppose you are a "hard working Cuban" who takes a look at the USA. Would you want what we have? No health insurance or exorbitantly expensive health insurance? Six million unemployed, a number that is rising? Retirement pensions devastated? Home foreclosed? I am not so sure.

The sanctions on Cuba are now a collective punishment of a nation that does not threaten us. I believe that collective punishment is illegal under international law but so is torture which Mr. Obama also ignores.

The hopelessly hopesick should ask themselves if the man they cheered for when he came up the ranks is the same guy who now is in office. If he is, then they have been wilfully fooling themselves. It is of course possible that the bright young advocate of hope from the fall of 2007 attracted the attention of Wall Street when it was looking for someone to beat the too unpredictable and progressive deemed Hillary Clinton and that before he took their money they spelled it out to him loud and clear what it means to become chairman of the empire. Welcome to the machine.

Yeah, this old Indian geezer thought you might have all the problems of your Nation solved today but I wasn't placing any bets in Vegas upon that such thing.

Life is good. What an experience! It's always best to forgive.

I believe that the "movement" to which Ms. Klein refers, the one supposedly grown up and enabled by the candidacy of Barack Obaama, was doomed from the first. A coalition of first time activists, first time voters and those who were reacting more to an aversion to the eight years of Bush than to any real enlightened words of candidate Obama were simply grasping at straws.

I suspect that there were few folks in this for the long haul, and I believe that, once the perfidity of Obama's chosen course becomes clear, most will return to the alienation and ennui that marks most of America's electorate.

As long as we the people believe we need to find heroes we will overlook where the real power resides, in all of us.