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Published Letters: 34

Thursday, September 11, 2008 08:21 PM

Um Yeah it Is great

But did you read the article?

http://www.laweekly.com/2008-09-11/news/you-39-ll-never-be-vice-president-a-letter-to-my-daughter-the-community-organizer/2

It demonstrates just how much experience is gained being a community organizer.

Hitler was never a community organizer in any sense of the definition, anymore than the KKK are community organizers,and such a comparison is ridiculous. But, if you want to compare him to someone the majority of people don't like it IS accurate to say that a Republican darling dabbled in community organizing:

After his unsuccessful presidential campaign, Pat Robertson started the Christian Coalition, a 1.7 million member Christian right organization that campaigned mostly for conservative candidates. It became, almost instantly, one of the most influential organizations in American politics and one of the largest and most powerful lobbying groups in the United States

You know who else?

Women like Betty Friedan, Jane Addams, Dorothy Day, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Sarah Palin should be so lucky to be compared to these community organizers, any woman for that matter.

And some prominent men? Martin Luther King, Jr., Sen. Paul Wellstone, John Lewis House of Representatives and let's not forget Lech Wałęsa.

Who is Lech Wałęsa? He co-founded Solidarity,the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, AND wait for it! Served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995.

I wonder if he would agree that his community organizer experience was useless in his presidential office?

And lastly it is madam Palin who began this debate attempting to appear as though she had more leadership experience than Sen. Obama.

It may not help her cause to be quoting his policies.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 01:32 PM

pacificwhim!

Thanks for the link! Nice one!

Friday, October 3, 2008 04:35 PM
Original article: Senate votes yes on bailout

SON OF A BAILOUT!!!!!!!!

Congratulations Modern American Elected Leaders!!!! You have complete the circle on how entirely you have brutally raped the modern American. Thanks for not being gentle.

I mean, hell, we didn't want to actually solve this problem by PAYING these problem mortgages so our neighbors could have homes, or by rewriting the terms that caused this problem, right? Americans don't want their homes, cars, educations, health care, equality, rights, peace, freedom,or an adhered to Constitution. No!! Constitutions are for wimps and whiners.

We want to give you modern Coal barons every last damn dollar AND slavish devotion in exchange for telling us scaaaaary spooooooky bedtime stories about monsters you are protecting us from: women who behave like the happening of their uterus are their business, glimpses of nipple, men sharing open mouthed kissed in public and people with foreign religions who sit around all day envying our Wal-Mart's and McDonalds. And yet you still took the time to listen to the American people, and all the economists. Your gallantry and patience astounds.

Luckily the public is fully behind you, and all top economists agree with you that this is the BEST and ONLY way. So don't call it a bailout. Call it a Thank You gift, with this note written in blood on a big fat white surrender flag.

Friday, October 3, 2008 05:16 PM
Original article: Don't call it a bailout

SON OF A BAILOUT!!!!!!!!

Congratulations Modern American Elected Leaders!!!! You have complete the circle on how entirely you have brutally raped the modern American. Thanks for not being gentle.

I mean, hell, we didn't want to actually solve this problem by PAYING these problem mortgages so our neighbors could have homes, or by rewriting the terms that caused this problem, right? Americans don't want their homes, cars, educations, health care, equality, rights, peace, freedom,or an adhered to Constitution. No!! Constitutions are for wimps and whiners.

We want to give you modern Coal barons every last damn dollar AND slavish devotion in exchange for telling us scaaaaary spooooooky bedtime stories about monsters you are protecting us from: women who behave like the happening of their uterus are their business, glimpses of nipple, men sharing open mouthed kissed in public and people with foreign religions who sit around all day envying our Wal-Mart's and McDonalds. And yet you still took the time to listen to the American people, and all the economists. Your gallantry and patience astounds.

Luckily the public is fully behind you, and all top economists agree with you that this is the BEST and ONLY way. So don't call it a bailout. Call it a Thank You gift, with this note written in blood on a big fat white surrender flag.

Thursday, October 30, 2008 07:39 AM

IT'S ALMOST OVER

I can't wait to have a well spoken, very rational human being as our president.

Saturday, November 1, 2008 10:49 PM
Original article: Opus

It's there

Am I the only one who is seeing it?

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 06:42 PM

Ha!!

And Ha!! Onion, thanks for the last eight years!

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