Capt Bringdown
07-29-2012, 12:20 AM
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"Those who feel that like lemmings they are being led over a cliff would be well-advised not to read this book. They may discover that they are right."
-Noam Chomsky
Could it be that the American Left had gone extinct as any kind of potent political force and it took the election of Barack Obama to prove it? (http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10319-barack-obama-changeling)
And what of Obama's spellbound followers, those youthful crusaders who saw him illumined in the sacral glow of his ethereal rhetoric and cleaved to him during the hard slog of two campaigns with a near-religious devotion? What was running through their minds when the mists finally parted to reveal that Obama was implementing cunning tracings of Bush-era policies on everything from the indefinite detention of uncharged prisoners in the war on terror to raids on medical marijuana distributors in states where medical pot has been legalized? What, indeed.
Illusions die hard, especially when shattered by cruise missiles.
-- read the full intro-->> (http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10319-barack-obama-changeling)
"Those who feel that like lemmings they are being led over a cliff would be well-advised not to read this book. They may discover that they are right."
-Noam Chomsky
Could it be that the American Left had gone extinct as any kind of potent political force and it took the election of Barack Obama to prove it? (http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10319-barack-obama-changeling)
And what of Obama's spellbound followers, those youthful crusaders who saw him illumined in the sacral glow of his ethereal rhetoric and cleaved to him during the hard slog of two campaigns with a near-religious devotion? What was running through their minds when the mists finally parted to reveal that Obama was implementing cunning tracings of Bush-era policies on everything from the indefinite detention of uncharged prisoners in the war on terror to raids on medical marijuana distributors in states where medical pot has been legalized? What, indeed.
Illusions die hard, especially when shattered by cruise missiles.
-- read the full intro-->> (http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10319-barack-obama-changeling)