[Homestead] Obama fans, what say ye?

Don Bowen don.bowen at earthlink.net
Sun Apr 13 14:08:09 EDT 2008


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I don't think it's that simple, Don.   In context or out of context the 
message reads pretty much the same.  That is:  The former way of life based 
on industrial jobs has been gone for 25 years and Bush and Clinton have 
promised you that they can bring it back, they can't, but I can."  Obama's 
are not the SAME flawed and failed policies, the are NEW flawed and failed 
policies.  They do not take in the insight and courage to say, "Those jobs 
are NEVER coming back, no one can make them come back, it's time to do 
something else entirely, like not consume so much."
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Like so many of the problems we are facing today, the solutions will be 
difficult and our lives will change but all candidates for office will get 
there only by promising that they have some magic way to preserve it all. 
Peak Oil?  Don't worry we will have some magic solution and we will never 
talk about what it will cost.  Falling economy? Don't worry we will invent a 
magic program that will let you all live in mcmansions.  They do not get 
elected when they tell the truth and even a small bit of the truth causes 
problems like this one did.

Don Bowen      KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html 




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