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That was John Lennon, I think. He's dead. And he was singing about people like Woody Guthrie or Joe Hill or someone that really made a difference.
Both Obama and Clinton are lawyers, upscale yuppies and not working-class heroes. They are just going through the motions for the voting cattle. You know, fool 'em until they are into the slaughterhouse.
A real working-class hero doesn't stand a chance in the Democratic party. Union money and manpower are welcome, but not union ethics or programs, not true populism. The lying about NAFTA is the litmus test. The left wing in the unions formed the Labor Party in 1996 because of NAFTA. And we won't be forgetting who was behind that ... and it wasn't just the Clintons.
There is a lot of 'makin' up' to do. And eating hotdogs won't make it.
