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Ending Rigged Gov't : "Real change starts with being ho

Post by Riddick » 08-27-2007 08:48 PM

Can you ID the mainstream (!) presidential candidate this excerpt from a recent prepared speech came from?

"The trouble with [a vision of the future that is rooted in] nostalgia is that you tend to remember what you liked and forget what you didn't. It's not just that the answers of the past aren't up to the job today, it's that the system that produced them was corrupt -- and still is...

And it's perpetuated by a media that too often fawns over the establishment, but fails to seriously cover the challenges we face or the solutions being proposed. This is the game of American politics and in this game, the interests of regular Americans don't stand a chance.

Real change starts with being honest -- the system in Washington is rigged and our government is broken. It's rigged by greedy corporate powers to protect corporate profits. It's rigged by the very wealthy to ensure they become even wealthier. At the end of the day, it's rigged by all those who benefit from the established order of things. For them, more of the same means more money and more power. They'll do anything they can to keep things just the way they are -- not for the country, but for themselves.

Politicians who care more about their careers than their constituents go along to get elected. They make easy promises to voters instead of challenging them to take responsibility for our country. And then they compromise even those promises to keep the lobbyists happy and the contributions coming.

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The American people deserve to know that their presidency is not for sale, the Lincoln Bedroom is not for rent, and lobbyist money can no longer influence policy in the House or the Senate.

It's time to end the game. It's time to tell the big corporations and the lobbyists who have been running things for too long that their time is over. It's time to challenge politicians to put the American people's interests ahead of their own calculated political interests, to look the lobbyists in the eye and just say no."

Y'think mebbe someone's been listening to George Carlin ...!??
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Post by Psychicwolf » 08-27-2007 08:52 PM

Why do you guys think Edwards is so far behind Billary? I am just so frustrated. Can't folks see what a phony she is? I am worried, I've never not voted for a President since I was eligible. But I cannot vote for her!
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Post by Panache » 08-27-2007 11:21 PM

You know, something has gotta change, and for far too long far too many of us have been far too passively watching as things happen, bred into this passivity by our altering fashions of consumptionism, which have become more propassive as the years pass.

Somebody's gotta do sumpin', 'n them 'somebodies' do be gotta be us! What to do?
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Post by Riddick » 08-28-2007 11:06 AM

Panache wrote: Somebody's gotta do sumpin', 'n them 'somebodies' do be gotta be us! What to do?

Sign this petition?
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