[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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