The size of the crowds for the Kerry/Edwards whistle stop train campaign reminds me of the crowds that Harry S. Truman had fifty years ago. I was reminded by a long ago written political book "The Loneliest Campaign". While pundits back then were all for Dewey the reality was much different. Perhaps, this is the case for Kerry/Edwards as the crowds have been uniformly huge through the heartland of America as Americans are in dire straits both financially and politically.
The theme of "Help is on the Way" is effective because Mr. Bush has a proven track of record of not helping Americans across the board. We, meaning most Americans, are pretty much independent and fair minded, but given the poisonous political demagogery by the Newt Gringrich and his "Contract on America" agenda has alterted the political discourse. Aided and abetted by the Limbaugh seditionous act of betraying America's Constitution and Bill of Rights there is now the prevalent view by a large minority of Americans that our country is a "divided, unbridgeable society" which is "right/wrong" and any compromise is an act of ideological betrayal of a political belief. This is true for both progressive and reactionary "hardcore" elements in our political landscape.
I like this meme of "help is on the way" because it does sum up the facts of what many, many people in America have suffered under Bush Rex reign of fraud, corruption, and treason. We our a peoples that values hard work and having a decent job. If the corruption of mass media had not taken place then Mr. Bush would have long ago been sitting in jail for the real, not the faked/faux impeachment of Bill Clinton, crimes against the Constitution and Bill of Rights. However, there still is a tiny voice of investigative journalists that have come to bat for America. I would count Seymour Hersh as being the leading light for truth under this most corruption and treasonous administration by Mr. Bush in the history of the United States.
Although we have the values of independence we also have the values of community and to be the good samaritan in times of need. This is most glaringly absent by Mr. Bush and his cronies of the administration who view government as a personal "piggy bank" rather then a insturment for improving society. I look upon government since the time FDR as being a force for improving society and to reign in the corporate rampages of the gilded era and most recently under the Reagan/Bush/Bush era of bad/incompetent government.
BTW- Thanks for everyone who turned out for Denver Poets Day!
Plus, I'll be hosting this Sunday's Open Mic @ the Goddess, 8 pm, Oh My Goddess Coffeehouse.
The theme of "Help is on the Way" is effective because Mr. Bush has a proven track of record of not helping Americans across the board. We, meaning most Americans, are pretty much independent and fair minded, but given the poisonous political demagogery by the Newt Gringrich and his "Contract on America" agenda has alterted the political discourse. Aided and abetted by the Limbaugh seditionous act of betraying America's Constitution and Bill of Rights there is now the prevalent view by a large minority of Americans that our country is a "divided, unbridgeable society" which is "right/wrong" and any compromise is an act of ideological betrayal of a political belief. This is true for both progressive and reactionary "hardcore" elements in our political landscape.
I like this meme of "help is on the way" because it does sum up the facts of what many, many people in America have suffered under Bush Rex reign of fraud, corruption, and treason. We our a peoples that values hard work and having a decent job. If the corruption of mass media had not taken place then Mr. Bush would have long ago been sitting in jail for the real, not the faked/faux impeachment of Bill Clinton, crimes against the Constitution and Bill of Rights. However, there still is a tiny voice of investigative journalists that have come to bat for America. I would count Seymour Hersh as being the leading light for truth under this most corruption and treasonous administration by Mr. Bush in the history of the United States.
Although we have the values of independence we also have the values of community and to be the good samaritan in times of need. This is most glaringly absent by Mr. Bush and his cronies of the administration who view government as a personal "piggy bank" rather then a insturment for improving society. I look upon government since the time FDR as being a force for improving society and to reign in the corporate rampages of the gilded era and most recently under the Reagan/Bush/Bush era of bad/incompetent government.
BTW- Thanks for everyone who turned out for Denver Poets Day!
Plus, I'll be hosting this Sunday's Open Mic @ the Goddess, 8 pm, Oh My Goddess Coffeehouse.
posted by Ken at 10:21 AM
