[Peace-discuss] Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life

[John W.]

Well, I read every word of it.  So another disaster narrowly 
averted!  Whew!  This eternal vigilance is killing me!  Next time it's 
gonna have to be someone ELSE'S turn to read it!

John



At 11:34 AM 2/3/2008, Morton K. Brussel wrote:

>   "The people can have anything they want.
>                      The trouble is, they do not want anything.
>                      At least they vote that way on election day."
>                                      Eugene Debs, American socialist 
> leader, early 20th century
>
>    "How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think 
> against
>                             their interests is very clever. It's the 
> cleverest ruling class that I have ever
>                            come across in history. It's been 200 years at 
> it. It's superb."
>                                                                      Gore 
> Vidal
>
>Another interesting view of the American electoral system comes from Cuban 
>leader Raúl Castro. He recently noted that the United States pits two 
>identical parties against one another, and joked that a choice between a 
>Republican and Democrat is like choosing between himself and his brother Fidel.
>
>"We could say in Cuba we have two parties: one led by Fidel and one led by 
>Raúl, what would be the difference?" he asked. "That's the same thing that 
>happens in the United States ... both are the same. Fidel is a little 
>taller than me, he has a beard and I don't."[6]
>
>These quotes are included in the noteworthy article from Bob Blum.
>
><http://members.aol.com/bblum6/aer54.htm>http://members.aol.com/bblum6/aer54.htm
>
>It's entitled :Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of 
>your life
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