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Gene GeRue wrote:
> 
> The name of the revolution is Barack Obama.

That brings a smile to my face, Gene.
He's a revolutionary alright.

I figure if you can post a blog, so can I.  
From:
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20080331141005803
Amazingly, this was written last March, but still applicable.

Barack Obama is a figment of your imagination. Okay, I’m pretty sure
he really exists, but the point is this: the messiah, the progressive
dream candidate who is going to magically save the United States and
return us to the good old days of being a benevolent, peace-loving
world power— wait, was this before or after Vietnam? Before or after
Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Before or after the war with the Philippines?
The war with Mexico? Slavery? The Indigenous Genocide? Anyway, that’s
not the point— Barack Obama is not who you imagine him to be.
Let this in no way be mistaken for an endorsement for Hilary
“the Hawk” Clinton or John McCain— a man who actually found it funny to
sing about bombing Iran, a bombing would result in the deaths of untold
innocent children, women and men— nor is it an endorsement of any third
party candidates: green, socialist or otherwise. This is simply an
honest talk about Barack Obama.
Americans of all stripes are lining up behind the myth that is
Barack Obama. Why is this? Well, he represents “change”, he gives us
“hope”, oooh, and he talks so well. That me be good and fine in so far
as running a campaign, but what does this man really represent? Okay,
you say he represents “change”, but what changes will he make?
As an anarchist (and, I hope all anarchists reading this will
agree) I would never support a candidate and I think as such all
anarchists are in a unique position to view this Obama cult worship as
exactly that— a cult, a fiction, a nice little story to fit in your
ballot box.
Okay, the guy is black— okay, half-black, but hey, in our
country one drop counts!— but does that mean he will magically make the
United States a better place for all African-Americans? For all
minorities? For that matter would having Hillary Clinton in the White
House mean sexism will magically cease to exist? Were that the case I
would gladly vote for the dynamic duo of Obama/Clinton in ’08 and sit
proudly (idly by) as our new masters were sworn in and racism and
sexism became something of the past. But having a black man in office
will not change the facts of racism, much as a woman in office will not
rid us of sexism. I’m Irish (and Italian) and I am pretty sure that
having John F. Kennedy elected did little to change the status of the
Irish (or Catholics as a whole) in the United States. He did get shot,
though (fuck me— imagine the cult of Obama post-assassination, I
shudder at the thought).
Time to get real. Barack Obama isn’t going to help realize my
dreams of a world without hierarchy, coercion or capitalism (duh) but,
will he accomplish the dreams of even a liberal democrat? No, no he
will not. Why? (1) Because he has consistently voted in favor of
continuing the war in Iraq, (2) Because he is not going to repeal NAFTA
or other free trade agreements, strip corporations of their powers or
give any real leverage to the American working class, (3) Because he is
obviously unwilling to address real discrimination based on race (or
gender, or class, or sexual orientation), (4) Because he will not grant
consenting adults the right to marry, (5) Because he consistently
resorts to taking hard-line stances against Iran, (6) Because he will
not address the fact that car culture (fuck it, industrial capitalism
as a whole) is destroying our landbase and forcing us to wage wars
against sovereign nations, (7) Because he will not seriously alter the
prison-industrial complex or declare an end to the war on drugs (i.e. a
war on communities he claims to represent), (8) Because he will not end
government funding of the military-industrial complex (i.e. the war on
brown people world-wide), (9) Because he voted in favor of
reauthorizing the Patriot Act, (10) Because he will not end the Green
Scare, the war on “eco-terrorists” (i.e. the only sane people left in
this country) nor will he end his support of the real terrorists (read:
corporations) destroying what little remains of the natural world here
in the United States.
I could go on, but by now you’re probably bored (I know I am)
and you probably get the point. Barack Obama does not represent change.
He represents the standard quo. No, he isn’t George Bush, but he is
part of the same machine, and you know what? They need one another.
Because without the labels Republican and Democrat, what do we have?
Just a bunch of candidates fighting to be the spokesperson for the only
political party America has ever known: the Capitalist Party. 





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Forget things like taxes.  My house is paid for, as is my car and everything 
else I own.  Still, if I need food or medicine, services, petro; I will see 
the prices, based on currency inflation , go up.  At the same time , the 
value of my house and all of my assets are falling.  
 
I see myself affected in many ways.  I'm not arguing; all of your points seem 
valid; I just don't see how you, or anyone, can be so completely removed from 
exchange that all of the pain some how misses you.    I still have  relatives 
who live in rural areas. Many of them ,soon, will be  really hurting .  I'm 
just trying to understand ...............bobford



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From: "Clansgian AT wmconnect.com" <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] Wrong admission


> > It must.  All hard assets.  That must be followed by currency inflation.  
> High  and low don't really change.  

You know, Bob, I'm here reviewing my hard assets and I'm still having a hard 
time seeing the downside.  My tools will still work.  My corn will still make 
bread.  My pump will still work.  My horse will still pull .... I still don't 
see how I'm out a cent yet.


> 
> >But, it will also cost you and eveyone else.  Your (imaginary) gifted 22 
> year old, getting ready to start his/her Juniro year at Vandy.  All of a 
> turn, 
> the scholarship money, dependent on school investment, is cut by half. 

I've long since stopped buying into that paradigm.  If all such schools 
closed the world would be better off for it.

> Your feed store has to close because they can't afford the overhead.  

> 

Sorry, Bob, that goes in the bull crap category.  I use two feed stores.  One 
is this one:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_20000224/ai_n10135680

It has been going continuously since 1778 and has almost no overhead it 
didn't have two hundred years ago.

The other is a cooperative and its overhead is absorbed directly in the 
pricing.  Buyers are the owners and so profits are dynamic.  

If people have sold their business souls to the credit game (scam) then they 
are in for a hard bump.  Oddly, considering the establishments I do business 
with (lumber men, mill wrights, machine shops) none of them depend on 
renewing 
capital through credit so they will continue, if not unabated, at least only 
somewhat attenuated.

Just like Long John Silver said to Jim Hawkins, "You can't touch pitch and 
not be mucked, lad."  </HTML>
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