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A little Howard Dean for inspiration today:
"Change is difficult. You cannot expect people with great privileges taken at the expense of ordinary working people to surrender them lightly. But the history of humanity is that determined people will overcome obstacles.
And we will overcome the problems that this country is facing as a result of George W. Bush and as a result of a Washington establishment that has forgotten who sent them there."
"We have been here before in this country. When William McKinley was president, enormous trusts were put together which made it impossible for ordinary Americans to start their own business, make any money without enormous pressure from those trusts, which destroyed their business.
Teddy Roosevelt came along, busted up the trusts and made it possible to earn a living for ordinary Americans and small businesses again.
Under Harding and Coolidge and Hoover, Calvin Coolidge said, The business of America is business, but forgot that human beings are not meant to be cogs in an enormous government corporate machine; that we are spiritual people who need connections and have to have community again.
Franklin Roosevelt came along and took America back for ordinary working people again.
My favorite, however, is this one. In 1824, John Quincy Adams, the son of a one-term president, John Adams...
... beat Andrew Jackson of Tennessee in an election where Andrew Jackson received more votes.
It was decided in Congress by one vote, electing John Quincy Adams as president.
In 1828, four years later, John Quincy Adams became the one-term son of a one-term president."
"Change is difficult. You cannot expect people with great privileges taken at the expense of ordinary working people to surrender them lightly. But the history of humanity is that determined people will overcome obstacles.
And we will overcome the problems that this country is facing as a result of George W. Bush and as a result of a Washington establishment that has forgotten who sent them there."
"We have been here before in this country. When William McKinley was president, enormous trusts were put together which made it impossible for ordinary Americans to start their own business, make any money without enormous pressure from those trusts, which destroyed their business.
Teddy Roosevelt came along, busted up the trusts and made it possible to earn a living for ordinary Americans and small businesses again.
Under Harding and Coolidge and Hoover, Calvin Coolidge said, The business of America is business, but forgot that human beings are not meant to be cogs in an enormous government corporate machine; that we are spiritual people who need connections and have to have community again.
Franklin Roosevelt came along and took America back for ordinary working people again.
My favorite, however, is this one. In 1824, John Quincy Adams, the son of a one-term president, John Adams...
... beat Andrew Jackson of Tennessee in an election where Andrew Jackson received more votes.
It was decided in Congress by one vote, electing John Quincy Adams as president.
In 1828, four years later, John Quincy Adams became the one-term son of a one-term president."
posted by GT at 5:31 PM
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