[Peace-discuss] Mr Obama: Replace Rahm w/ Me (open letter from Michael Moore)

[John W.]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:00 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:



> This is embarrassing.  The problem is not Rahm Emanuel, so I doubt Michael
> Moore is the solution.  The problem is that Obama came into office facing
> three problems - Mideast war, recession, and health care - and did precisely
> the wrong thing with each (and not by accident).
>
> And not because the problems were difficult. Each had an obvious solution:
> bring the troops home, go beyond what FDR did 75 years ago (nationalize
> failing banks, set up an expanded WPA with a job for anybody who wants one),
> and take away the age restriction for Medicare.  Those programs wouldn't
> even require much innovation - they'd all been done before.
>

In your world, Carl, what role does the legislative branch play in all of
these "obvious" solutions?  Did FDR just go out and do all of those things
single-handedly and unilaterally?  Educate me about how simple it all is.




> Instead, Obama escalated the killing, gave massive amounts of money to rich
> bankers, and expanded insurance companies' ability to profit from human
> misery (as those companies know - check their stock prices).
>
And again, Obama did all of these things by himself?



> But, as another Illinois politician who also had a certain megalomania
> worried, "You can't fool all of the people all of the time."  It certainly
> looks as thought the policies of Obama and the Democrats will be rejected at
> the polls in November. We should be outlining the alternatives to Obama's
> policies, not childishly posturing about "beat[ing] the Republicans to a
> pulp" and "pound[ing] the right wing into submission."  The American Right
> contains principled opponents of Obama's blood-lettings and of his raids on
> the treasury for the benefit of the rich. And voters seem to be rallying to
> it.
>
For me personally to ever vote for a Republican or a member of the American
Right, said individual would have to be healing the sick, raising the dead,
and feeding 5,000 people with a handful of loaves and fishes, all out in the
open where I could witness it at her political campaign stops.   Oh, and
she'd have to be selling all of her worldly possessions and giving her money
to the poor.  Otherwise I'll just stay home from the polls, or else "throw
away" my vote on the likes of Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney.



> On this day (March 5) in 1868 a court of impeachment was organized in the
> United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson, who
> was attempting to roll back the social revolution set loose by the Civil
> War. The country would be a better place if Johnson had been removed from
> office, setting a pattern for others - down to both Bushes, Clinton, and the
> present incumbent - who is surely as guilty of war crimes (including the
> "supreme international crime") as his predecessors.
>
Indeed.  Elect 'em, then promptly impeach 'em.  Sounds like a hugely viable
and pragmatic plan!



> That's not going to be solved by Moore's theatrical flair. --CGE
>
>
> Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
>
>> Seen this?
>>
>> --- On *Fri, 3/5/10, Michael Moore /<maillist at michaelmoore.com>/* wrote:
>>
>>
>> President Obama: Replace Rahm with Me ...an open letter from Michael Moore
>>
>> Friday, March 5th, 2010
>>
>> Dear President Obama,
>>
>> I understand you may be looking to replace Rahm Emanuel as your chief of
>> staff.
>>
>> I would like to humbly offer myself, yours truly, as his replacement.
>>
>> I will come to D.C. and clean up the mess that's been created around you.
>> I
>> will work for $1 a year. I will help the Dems on Capitol Hill find their
>> spines and I will teach them how to nonviolently beat the Republicans to a
>> pulp.
>>
>> And I will help you get done what the American people sent you there to
>> do. I
>> don't need much, just a cot in the White House basement will do.
>>
>> Now, don't get too giddy with excitement over my offer, because you and I
>> are
>> going to be up at 5 in the morning, 7 days a week and I am going to get
>> you
>> pumped up for battle every single day (see photo <
>> http://static.michaelmoore.com/manual_img/10/03/coachmike.jpg>). Each
>> morning you and I will do 100 jumping jacks and you will repeat after me:
>>
>> "THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ELECTED ME, NOT THE REPUBLICANS, TO RUN THE COUNTRY!
>> I
>> AM IN CHARGE! I WILL ORDER ALL OBSTRUCTIONISTS OUTTA MY WAY! IF THE
>> AMERICAN
>> PEOPLE DON'T LIKE WHAT I'M DOING THEY CAN THROW MY ASS OUT IN 2012. IN THE
>> MEANTIME, I CALL THE SHOTS ON THEIR BEHALF! NOW, CONGRESS, DROP AND GIVE
>> ME
>> 50!!"
>>
>> Then we will put on our jogging sweats and run up to Capitol Hill. We will
>> take names, kick butts, and then take some more names. If we have to give
>> a
>> few noogies or half-nelson's, then so be it. In our pockets we will have a
>> piece of paper to show the pansy Dems just how much they won by in 2008 --
>> and the poll results that show the majority of Americans oppose the
>> Afghanistan and Iraq wars and want the bankers punished. Like drill
>> sergeants, we will get right up in their faces and ask them, "WHAT PART OF
>> THE PUBLIC MANDATE DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND, SOLDIER?!! DROP AND GIVE ME 50!"
>>
>> I know this is the job Rahm Emanuel was supposed to be doing.
>>
>> Now, don't get me wrong. I have always admired Rahm Emanuel (if you don't
>> count his getting NAFTA pushed through Congress in the '90s which
>> destroyed
>> towns like Flint, Michigan. I know, picky-picky.). He is what we needed
>> for a
>> long time -- a no-apologies, take-no-prisoners fighting machine. Someone
>> who
>> is not afraid to get his hands dirty and pound the right wing into
>> submission. Far from being the foul-mouthed bully he has been portrayed
>> as,
>> Rahm is the one who BEAT UP the bullies to protect us from them.
>>
>> That's certainly what he did in 2006. After six long, miserable years of
>> the
>> middle-class getting slaughtered and the poor being flushed down the
>> toilet,
>> Rahm Emanuel took on the job of returning Congress to the Democrats. No
>> one
>> believed it could be done.
>>
>> But he did it. Big time. He put the fear of God into the party of Rush and
>> Newt. They had never been so scared. More importantly, though, he
>> instilled a
>> sense of hope in the Democrats that they could actually score the mother
>> of
>> all hat tricks in 2008 -- and with you, an African American no less, in
>> the
>> pole position!
>>
>> It worked. The Darkness ended. The vast majority of nation wept with joy
>> on
>> the night of the election (those who weren't weeping went out and bought a
>> record number of guns and ammo). Unlike the last president, you didn't
>> "win"
>> by 537 votes in Florida (although Gore won the popular vote by a
>> half-million), you beat McCain nationally by 9,522,083 votes! The House
>> Democrats got a walloping 79-vote margin. The Senate Dems would caucus
>> with a
>> supermajority of 60 votes unheard of in over 30 years. The wars would now
>> end. America would have universal health care. Wall Street and the banks
>> would, at the very least, be reined in. Hardworking citizens would not be
>> thrown out of their homes. It was supposed to be the dawning of a new age.
>>
>> But the Republicans were not going to go quietly into the night. You see,
>> instead of having just one Rahm Emanuel, they are ALL Rahm Emanuels.
>> That's
>> why they usually win. Unlike most Democrats, they are relentless and
>> unstoppable. When they believe in something (which is usually themselves
>> and
>> the K Street job they hope to be rewarded with someday), they'll fight for
>> it
>> till the death. They are loyal to a fault to each other (they were never
>> able
>> to denounce Bush, even though they knew he was destroying the party). They
>> dig their heels in deep no matter what. If you exiled them to a lone chunk
>> of
>> melting polar ice cap, they would keep insisting that it was just a normal
>> "January thaw," even as the frigid Arctic waters rose above their
>> God-fearing
>> necks ("See what I mean -- this water is COLD! What 'global *warming*'?!
>> Adam
>> and Eve rode dinos...aagghh!!... gulp gulp gulp").
>>
>> We thought we were all done with this craziness, but we were mistaken.
>> Like a
>> beast that you just can't cage, the Republicans convinced not only the
>> media,
>> but YOU and your fellow Dems, that 59 votes was a *minority*! Precious
>> time
>> was lost trying to reach a "consensus" and trying to be "bipartisan."
>>
>> Well, you and the Democrats have been in charge now for over a year and
>> not
>> one banking regulation has been reinstated. We don't have universal health
>> care. The war in Afghanistan has escalated. And tens of thousands of
>> Americans continue to lose their jobs and be thrown out of their homes.
>> For
>> most of us, it's just simply no longer good enough that Bush is gone. Woo
>> hoo. Bush is gone. Yippee. That hasn't created one new friggin' job.
>>
>> You're such a good guy, Mr. President. You came to Washington with your
>> hand
>> extended to the Republicans and they just chopped it off. You wanted to be
>> respectful and they decided that they were going to say "no" to everything
>> you suggested. Yet, you kept on saying you still believed in
>> bipartisanship.
>>
>> Well, if you really want bipartisanship, just go ahead and let the
>> Republicans win in November. Then you'll get all the bipartisanship you
>> want.
>>
>>
>> Let me be clear about one thing: The Democrats on Election Day 2010 are
>> going
>> to get an ass-whoopin' of biblical proportions if things don't change
>> right
>> now. And after the new Republican majority takes over, they, along with a
>> few
>> conservative Democrats in Congress, will get to bipartisanly impeach you
>> for
>> being a socialist and a citizen of Kenya. How nice to see both sides of
>> the
>> aisle working together again!
>>
>> And the brief window we had to fix this country will be gone.
>>
>> Gone.
>>
>> Gone, baby, gone.
>>
>> I don't know what your team has been up to, but they haven't served you
>> well.
>> And Rahm, poor Rahm, has turned into a fighter -- not of Republicans, but
>> of
>> the left. He called those of us who want universal health care "f***ing
>> retarded." Look, I don't know if Rahm is the problem or if it's Gibbs or
>> Axelrod or any of the other great people we owe a debt of thanks to for
>> getting you elected. All I know is that whatever is fueling your White
>> House
>> it's now running on fumes. Time to shake things up! Time to bring me in to
>> get you pumped up every morning! Go Barack! Yay Obama! Fight, Team, Fight!
>>
>> I'm packed and ready to come to D.C. tomorrow. If it helps, you won't
>> really
>> be losing Rahm entirely because I'll be bringing his brother with me -- my
>> agent, Ari Emanuel. Man, you should see HIM negotiate a deal! Have you
>> ever
>> wanted to see Mitch McConnell walking around Capitol Hill carrying his own
>> head in his hands after it's just been handed to him by the infamous Ari?
>> Oh,
>> baby, it won't be pretty -- but boy will it be sweet!
>>
>> What say you, Barack? Me and you against the world! Yes we can! It'll be
>> fun
>> -- and we may just get something done. Whaddaya got to lose? Hope?
>>
>> Retardedly yours, Michael Moore MMFlint at aol.com
>> </mc/compose?to=mmflint at aol.com> MichaelMoore.com
>> <http://www.michaelmoore.com/>
>>
>> P.S. Just to give you an idea of the new style I'll be bringing with me,
>> when
>> a cornhole like Sen. Ben Nelson tries to hold you up next time, this is
>> what
>> I will tell him in order to get his vote: "You've got exactly 30 seconds
>> to
>> rescind your demand or I will personally make sure that Nebraska doesn't
>> get
>> one more federal dollar for the rest of Obama's term. And then I will let
>> everyone in your state know that you wear Sooner panties <
>> http://static.michaelmoore.com/manual_img/10/03/nelsonspanties.jpg>,
>> backwards. NOW DROP AND GIVE ME 50!"
>
>

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