Friday, October 10, 2008

YouTube - Barack Obama's Smoking Problem

YouTube - Barack Obama's Smoking Problem: "Nobody ever talks about it, but someone has to. Barack is a cross between Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. We know how they died"

Monday, October 6, 2008

YouTube - Americans and reality

YouTube - Americans and reality: "This is such a good video. It is truly rare to see such accuracy. This is exactly why we are in the position we are in. Democracy is a self correcting system. We became politically exhausted with liberalism by the end of the seventies. Thus entered Ronald Reagan and the present period of conservatism"

The Hindu News Update Service

The Hindu News Update Service: "there are certainly clear parallels between the present crisis and events of eight decades ago. In both cases, the economic collapse came after a period of political dominance by the Republican party. The 1920s saw three successive Republican politicians elected to the White House: Warren G Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. These administrations shared a fervent commitment to laissez faire capitalism, encouraging growth through tax cuts, low interest rates and minimum business regulation. Coolidge encapsulated Republican faith in the free market economy in the aphoristic observation: 'The business of America is business"

Sunday, October 5, 2008

YouTube - Why Doesn't America have Single-Payer Health Insurance?

YouTube - Why Doesn't America have Single-Payer Health Insurance?: "We don't have single payer because we have let america fall into a time warp under 28 years of fascist conservative rule. We've let them talk about balanced budgets yet run up incredible debt. It has been an era of evil lies. America has put its head in the sand every since Ronald RayGun. Impeaching a president over sex? Give me a break! This will be remembered as a bleak period in america's history, but the rich had a ball, and the rednecks had a good time kidding themselves"
by me

Saturday, October 4, 2008

YouTube - Bruce Springsteen Performs "The Rising" for Obama Rally!


YouTube - Bruce Springsteen Performs "The Rising" for Obama Rally!: "We need to hold on to these thoughts for the next thirty days. Things are going to get rough. The air will be filled with Reverend Wright, William Ayres and Tony Rezko. It's like fighting with a pig. We'll have to get down in the mud, and the pig will like it."

Friday, October 3, 2008

Raising the white flag of surrender to Medicare - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog


Raising the white flag of surrender to Medicare - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog: "Operation Coffeecup — a campaign organized by the American Medical Association to block the passage of Medicare. Doctors’ wives were supposed to organize coffee klatches for patients, where they would play the Reagan recording, which declared that Medicare would lead us to totalitarianism"

YouTube - Charlie Rose - Warren Buffett

YouTube - Charlie Rose - Warren Buffett: "This is the end of Reaganomics. Thank God! The sixties gave us the eighties. The eighties gave us what we have now. The fascist conservatives can climb back under the rock they came out from under, and life can go on, finally."