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

Karen Medina kmedina at uiuc.edu
Mon Feb 4 10:52:46 CST 2008


Thank you John for saving us.

good stuff Mort.

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:38:41 -0600
>From: "John W." <jbw292002 at gmail.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life   
>To: "Morton K. Brussel" <brussel4 at insightbb.com>, Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
>
>   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
>     It's entitled :Read this or George W. Bush will be
>     president the rest of your life
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