OUR
CHOICE BETWEEN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND JOE SIX PACK
Los Angeles December 9th 2008 by Eric Lafayette published by www.fordemocracy.com
Dear Readers,
It is
not a choice between Republicans and Democrats. It is a choice between
a part of the right wing Republican Party and the rest of the civilized
world.
Republicans
thrive on denying education to the masses. They have high level
expensive private schools for the elite. However in their opinion
the middle class does not deserve a comparable education because
it could make them informed, aware and intelligent and then of course
they would almost certainly vote for Democrats. It is a staple of
right wing dictatorships to deny education to the great numbers
of citizens in the middle class and the lower classes.
The main
vehicle for right wing Republican propaganda is Fox cable News where
you must go to see how nauseating and dishonest the fodder that
the right wing Republican party delivers to its members is. Their
membership receives a steady diet of pure tabloid propaganda; they
love it and gobble it up. Remember for the last eight years we had
50% or more Americans who believed in clever marketing and propaganda
broadcast by Fox News Cable.
We progressive
Democrats have always believed in Education and the most notorious
Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, is a perfect example of a well
educated and accomplished American.
He began
life as a child living in poverty became an apprentice candle maker
working with his brother. Upset by the narrow mindedness of his
brother he moved on to become an apprentice printer but all the
while as soon as he could read, he read constantly. He educated
himself, including during his rest hours and at night by candle
light.
He became good,
very good, at being a printer. He was a master craftsman and he
was proud to be one.
Have
you ever heard Sarah Palin say that she was proud of Joe the Plumber
because he was a master at his craft ? You never heard the Governor
say it because what was important to her was to imply: He is like
us, meaning he is white and not well educated. Joe the plumber became
an icon for the Republican Party.
The fact that Joe the Plumber was idolized not because he was a
great plumber but because he was uneducated speaks volumes about
the core of the right wing of the Republican Party.
In addition
for a while President Bush was proud to say that for most of his
life he never read. Sarah Palin proudly admitted that she never
read Newspapers let alone books.
Sarah Palin
became and is an Idol of the Republican Party showing to her fellow
members that she is as ignorant as they are and worthy of being
their idol and of course she has become their super star. President
Bush was elected twice thanks to good marketing but he is semi-literate
and has succeeded in bringing your country to its knees.
Benjamin
Franklin did not drink a drop of alcohol most of his life, indulging
only when he was corrupted by good French food and good French wine
when he lived in France and negotiated France’s help already
in his seventies.
On the other hand, Sarah Palin’s idol Joe six pack represents
beer drinking as a virtue a vital philosophy of life.
Benjamin
Franklin was also a strong advocate of sports. He exercised every
day and invented fins to swim faster and then tried them himself
swimming in the Charles River. Of course you all know that he discovered
electricity, invented bifocal glasses, the Franklin Stove and many
other things and discovered the Gulf Stream a discovery he mentions
in his autobiography.
To add one morequality to this remarkable man he purposedly did
not patent his main inventions in order for this useful invention
such as the Franklin stove to be available at low cost to all human
beings.
Compare with
the Frenzy of greed that characterizes Republican Business leaders
bent on fleecing the Americans, a very unpatriotic path that lead
to the economic demise of the USA.
For those eager
to deepen their knowledge about Franklin, you will find a link to
all Franklin Inventions at the bottom of this article. As of today
I am not aware that Joe six pack has invented anything useful for
his fellow human beings.
Benjamin
Franklin is the quintessential self taught, self made American.
Today with the Internet it is even easier for you or anybody else
who wants to learn and to read, to attain higher levels of education.
Today for somebody who learns to read well the sky is the limit.
With much less at his disposal, Benjamin Franklin demonstrated the
value of self education and improvement centuries ago.
Today
education through public schools and college for all Americans who
qualify and have the desire is essential to our growth and power
as a nation in a complex world of nations.. Our economy, security,
and well being as a nation depend on a well educated population.
Barack Obama in the tradition of the true Democrats will try to
create many more opportunities for each and every American to have
access to the benefits of a great education.
Think!
Please think hard, because it is almost incomprehensible. Almost
half of Americans are very happy to put Joe six pack and Joe the
plumber on pedestals as their heroes.
The Joes can be described as potential drunks and semi-literates
who perfectly mirror George Bush who was a drunk and Sarah Palin
who is semi-literate.
We should
never ever slow down on our efforts to improve education in this
country. It is the only way to educate the right wing Palin Bush
supporters and turn them into educated Americans.
Do we
have a reference? YES and it is Benjamin Franklin one of my Heroes.
He went from apprentice candle maker to become one of the greatest
genius of his Century.
Best
regards,
Eric
Lafayette
PS: A good explanation of why Benjamin Franklin was successful in
securing French help is the following:
"Franklin, who embodied the democratic beliefs of the Americans,
could have been a threat to the French court, but instead, his humble
style of clothing and his amazing intellect were embraced by the
aristocracy. Biographer Claude-Anne Lopez writes that Franklin "was
temperamentally suited for France. The streak of irreverence that
ran through his entire life found a congenial reception in Paris,
as did his love of laughter and desire to amuse. He did not shock
the French, nor did his interest in women, which was considered
perfectly normal."
http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventors/ss/Franklin_invent_5.htm
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PALIN IS A BUSH CLONE
by Eric Lafayette, September 17th 2008
Religious
Fairy Tales and Intelligence.
Palin
and Bush believe in Creationism also called Intelligent Design rather
then Evolution. Even worse they also believe that Creationism and
Intelligent Design should be taught in public schools in the United
States.
Believing in Creationism or intelligent design as a science is a
sure sign that the person who is a believer is not only ignorant
but a borderline illiterate as well as extremely unintelligent.
The teaching of Creationism or Intelligent design as a science has
been rejected by the supreme court as well as all scientific institutions.
Nonetheless Palin and Bush want this fairy tale of Creationism taught
as Science in schools to oppose the real science that is Darwinism
and evolution.
The proof of evolution abond by the hundred of thousands in our
museums, towns and pastures. Stop at a ridding club, look at the
front leg of a horse and you will SEE a proof of evolution.
There are not many markers that allow voters to judge if a candidate
is smart and will do a good job of leading the Country or will do
a horrible job. An exclusive belief in the fairy tale of
Creationism being a science is such a marker.
Bush is a believer
in the fairy tale of creationism being a science and he is the living
example of a leader whose countless dreadful errors have lead the
country to its demise. Sarah Palin has the same belief in the fairy
tale that is creationism as a science.
Palin pushes
it a couple of steps beyond absurdity in what we can call gigantic
absurdity in supporting her former long time pastor who preached
that when the end of the world comes, the state of Alaska will not
be destroyed and will be the refuge for righteous Fundamentalist
Christians.
For the last
eight years we have had a President who is extremely unintelligent
but a President who is street smart and charming enough that he
could be a great bar mate. These things do not qualify him to be
an effective President, and we have the dreadful proof in the sinking
of the USA. Palin is street smart too and you might enjoy attending
a PTA with her or going out to hunt caribou on snowmobiles but she
does not have the intelligence and skills to lead the USA
away from the precipice and could instead lead the country to an
even more sudden and grave demise.
Republican
voters have completely forgotten that it takes INTELLIGENCE , OPENNESS
TO AN EVER CHANGING WORLD, WISDOM, EDUCATION, SKILLS AND JUDGEMENT
TO LEAD THE MOST POWERFUL AND COMPLEX COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
In addition
Sara Palin added her belief that the USA went to war in Iraq on
a task from God.
This shows that whenever all the analysis and the science are against
going to war as it was the case for Iraq. She would be willing to
send the USA into a war if her preacher told her to go to war or
if she dreams God told her to go. She is literally a Bush clone.
Bush had previously clearly stated his belief that God supported
his decision to go to war in Iraq.
Here is a quote from Eve Ensler
"Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her
private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public
sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women
are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church
and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to
be."
Foreign
affairs
One of the strongest resemblances between Bush and Palin is their
total incompetence and lack of knowledge in foreign affairs.
Remember
that during his first Presidential campaign Bush answered questions
on foreign affairs and he sounded like an Idiot but Americans elected
him anyway.
Now Sarah
Palin has the same absence of knowledge and experience in foreign
affairs.
She made
a huge mistake that no members of the press noticed or commented
on.
When
asked by Charles Gibson from ABC who was the aggressor in the war
between Georgia and Russia at the end of August 2008 she said, “Russia,”
and then Gibson insistently asked her again if Russia was the aggressor
and she confirmed that it was. That is false, it is a major error.
The truth is Georgia was the military aggressor. Please see our
link at the end of this article.
If the United
States is on the brink of military action the future Vice President
and the potential President does not understand who attacked and
who was attacked; we are on the verge of entering an even more dangerous
world defined by leaders described by their complete and criminal
incompetence.
The Economy
The financial meltdown of the financial institutions triggered
by an absence of regulation and supervision of these financial institutions
show without uncertainty that George Bush has shown crass incompetence
in the financial area.
To put it bluntly
not only Mc Cain has said that he is incompetent but his main economic
adviser Fiorina has said that Palin is incompetent. In addition
during this financial meltdown there declarations made them look
like blundering idiots and these declarations have lowered their
level of competence to minus zero.
Oil and Energy.
Sara Palin is proud to lead her crowd into chanting: "drill,
drill, drill!" All her discourses on energy emphasize that
she is an energy specialist from an energy rich state.
She is every
bit as much an energy specialist as Bush was. He was from Texas
another energy rich state. They are the specialists of drill, drill,
drill who want to in order to lure the Americans into abandoning
serious conservation policies or making it a top priority to develop
renewable and sustainable energy.
Here are some
simple numbers.
If all the oil reserves in Alaska including the wildlife reserves
that are off limits now were put in production, the oil would begin
to trickle in over 10 years from now.The US currently imports 12,000,000
barrels a day of Petroleum mostly crude oil. Within 15 years Alaska
could achieve a good level of production of 650 000 barrels a day
and that would represent a paltry 5% of the imports.
The slogan "drill, drill, drill" advocated by Palin is
a sinister lie true to her discourse.
If a strong government program with incentives
for home owners who conserve energy and taxes on those who waste
energy as well as a lot more incentives and penalties for the car
manufacturers to encourage the manufacturing of plug in hybrids
and electric vehicules we would have a fuel economy within 5 years
vastly superior to any potential oil drilling in Alaska and a much
better economic viability as a producer of energy efficient vehicles.
If
we at the same time build windmills and solar panel farms
the United States has the potential to produce a lot more energy
in less time than any possible oil drilling in Alaska.
“Drill!
Drill! Drill!” is the quintessential battle cry of the most
antiquated, ill informed, inept leaders and their followers in the
USA.
Dictatorship
Instead of Democracy
Palin and Bush believe in behaving like little tyrants
at the expense of Constitutional law and the ethics and protocols
of participatory Democracy.
Bush sent his attack dogs against Valerie Plane because her husband
had displeased King George by not licking his boots and he had the
courage to tell George W. Bush the truth when the truth when it
could have prevented the war with Iraq. When it was proven that
his main attack dog was guilty Bush used the power of Presidential
pardon to free a convicted felon from jail and reward that felon
for the dirty work he did for the administration. to free from jail
this convicted felon who did the dirty job for him.
Again we have more example thar Sarah Palin is aBush clone.
In her very short life as a public servant she has already abused
the power invested in her by a majority of voters to exuberantly
favor friends, clans and sects and she has acted to harm or destroy
anybody that contradicted her or opposed her or her family. Her
behavior is very similar to George W. Bush. Both have used use their
power as leaders in government to go after their foes with additional
bad points for Palin, who not only attacked political foes as it
is the case with Bush but family foes on a personal level;
As a mayor she tried to fire the librarian in her town of Wasilla
because the librarian refused to ban books in order to please a
minority of Mayor Palin's friends and supporters.
Governor Palin used her power to fire Alaska's top law enforcement
official because he refused to fire a brother in law she
despised. Bush has constantly used his office to appoint very incapable
friends such as Alberto Gonzales as the Attorney General of the
United States and FEMA's director Michael D Brown. That is not Democracy
that is a dictatorship.
On Sunday,
September 14, 2008 The New York Times reported Sunday September
14th that as governor, Palin appointed a high school classmate,
Francis Havemeister, to a $95,000-a-year job as head of the State
Division of Agriculture. Havemeister "cited her childhood love
of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency,"
the Times reported noting her as one of at least five schoolmates
Palin has has appointed to high-paying jobs in government.
In addition
she is refusing to cooperate with the Justice Department about the
firing of the top law enforcement official. That is pure dictatorship
behavior or a synonym for the behavior of President Bush and his
Henchmen . Bush has replaced the greatest Democracy in the world,
the US Democracy that was a beacon for all modern Democracies with
what could be called the first US dictatorship.
Neither Bush
nor Palin have any idea about the concept of Democracy. They are
so unintelligent and illiterate that they cannot comprehend the
scope or the usefulness and importance of Democracy.
For Palin and
Bush Democracy is a tool to grab power with and for their friends
and supporters then destroy their enemies especially if they are
fellow American or allies and divide the nation between those prefered
Americans with an abhorrence to education who believe the fairy
tales she and her friends and supporters in the Christian Right
make them swallow and the Americans who have the drive to inform
themselves and believe in Science. This group of Americans committed
to continuing their education by reading a lot and staying informed
is a category of Americans who are called Democrats and Independents.
Palin has used the tool of Democracy to carve for herself
a dictatorship in Alaska, and she refuses to answer to the justice
system of her country.
Conclusion
The
main characteristic of Republican voters is that they cherish being
lied by their dishonest leaders to as long as nobody disturbs their
long held comfortable lifestyles and false beliefs.
Bush
was elected on well crafted lies fed to the naïve, semi-literate,
greedy and ill informed Republicans who gave us one of the worst
Presidents in the History of the USA, but by September 2008 only
20% of the Americans believed that George Bush was doing a good
job. You would be hopeful that with the evidence of George Bush’s
election of the most incompetent American ever to lead the USA based
on well crafted lies, voters would reject Palin, absolutely not,
the same Republicans who voted for the worst President in US History
worship Sarah Palin and the Palin-McCain ticket is slightly ahead
of the Barack-Biden ticket in the polls
There
are no two people more similar in their dictatorial behavior, cronyism,
illiteracy, lack of world knowledge and profound unintelligence
than Palin and Bush.
In
addition in exactly the same way candidate Bush was kept under wraps
in his first election and not allowed to talk freely to the press
outside of carefully scripted performances, Governor Palin is also
kept under wraps except for carefully scripted appearances.
The Republicans
leaders were and are afraid that these candidates will reveal their
phenomenal ignorance and unintelligence
If the Majority
of Americans are stupid enough to elect Palin they deserve a stupid
Vice President who could become their President. Then they could
be proud to claim that in less than ten years they were able to
elect the most incompetent President and the most incompetent Vice
President.
Even though
they may deserve it the United States and the Democracy we love
does not. Only the constant and dedicated action of raising the
levels of education among all American citizens will allow what
was once a great and respected nation in the world under the founding
fathers then Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton and others to
return to its grandeur bolstered by its educated citizens and not
those who believe in lies like those offered by Republican leaders
Bush and Palin and others who try to divide us.
Eric Lafayette
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HILARY VICE PRESIDENT .
by Eric Lafayette; July 13th 2008
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning
to breathe free."
This verse is part of “The New Colossus,”
by Emma Lazarus. It is one of the most famous poems in the USA,
and is engraved on the pedestal of the statue of Liberty.
There
is no greater physical symbol of Unity in United States History than
the Statue of Liberty and this poem. The poem embodies what made America
such a great country which is to welcome every newcomer and mold them
into dedicated patriots. The poem is remarkable, but the reality has
not always fulfilled its promise.
Many Americans:
African Americans, Women and poor white people were disenfranchised.
Either
because they did not have the right to vote or because they were poor;
Voting rights were given to all white male in 1860 regardless of their
fortune, women in 1920 and African American real right to vote in
1965.
These
categories were “left behind” and in many cases they
are still the “left behind” today when it comes to the
distribution of power and wealth.
Barack Obama
should unite these categories and create the “move forward"
movement. Because during the Bush- Cheney era, the same categories
instead of watching an improvement in the applications of the rights
given to them by the Constitution among which are " created
equals" and " the pursuit of Happiness " experienced
a lot of discrepancy between the Constitution and the reality.
Barack Obama
should say if he hopes to be the new Colossus:
"Let us unite our hard working people, our disenfranchised
black people, our underpaid women, our ostracized Latinos, our middle
class with stagnant income, all the people that the Bush Cheney
Presidency threw into an abyss of economic distress as well as in
a tyrannical and secretive system of government."
In choosing
a woman as a Vice President Barack Obama will unite the categories
of the American society that have been mistreated for a long time
but especially neglected by the Bush Cheney administration.
Choosing a competent talented woman to be his Vice President is
the right decision.
In addition I believe that Barack Osama’s campaign has totally
run out of steam and imagination in his Campaign.
Rejecting Hilary Clinton as a Vice President is a mistake although
her and her husband are doing their best to anger Obama and his
supporters. Each time Barack Obama begins to consider her as a potential
Vice President she treats him like an enemy that has to hurt as
much as possible.
Barack Obama came up with the word "CHANGE" or "Change
we can believe in" this slogan filled a void created by the
horrible anguish felt by almost all Americans who are depressed
by George W. Bush’s debasing follies.
Then he had to explain
what changes he would make.
So far, he has failed utterly at providing a grand concept that
will includes solutions and explanations.
Instead of creating a philosophy for his presidency he entered the
arena of squabbles and little fights with John McCain. The only
policies he has presented are watered down versions of his previously
stated ideas.
He could have done
much better.
He could have achieved so much and so many goals by being the candidate
who could embrace the achievements of the Founding Fathers, and
saying that the USA today is in such a dire state that we need to
summon all the virtues of the Founding Fathers as well as the ideas
and accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King to
rebuild the strong and vibrant Democracy the USA was before George
W. Bush’s Presidency brought it to its knees. Barack Obama
could be great if engaged in this kind of epic discourse.
Barack Obama should
have the following discourse:
"Let us
restore the Constitution with the Bill of Rights to their fullest
expression and protection of individual rights. Please listen my
Friends and Fellow Americans; we need to demonstrate the fortitude,
courage and resilience of George Washington, the creativity of Benjamin
Franklin, and the dedication to the people of Thomas Jefferson.The
times that are ahead of us and our country will not be easy, but
we will remember that when our nation was in its greatest turmoil
Abraham Lincoln never gave up and against all odds he rebuilt the
Union of States after the Civil War.We should remember that the
only thing we should be afraid of is fear itself."
Through
his respect for the Founding Fathers and their achievements Barack
Obama will transcend issues of race and draw on the support of all
citizens in favor of his programs and ideas. By respecting the importance
of the Constitution of the United States as a document that made
the USA a formidable nation he will unite the country after the
attacks launched by the George W. Bush Administration which attempted
to master the destruction of the Constitution and the institutions,
rights and systems it protects. Barack Obama will be able to set
an agenda to reestablish Democracy in the USA and will be able to
create improvements in educational standards in studies of Democratic
Institutions (civic studies) and the cornerstone of Democracy the
United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He can be the
master of a Timeline that will reestablish the importance of education
and understanding Democracy as opposed to the Timelines of the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan and ongoing economic crisis he will to his
dismay have very little control.
What are the
reasons Barack Obama should choose Hilary Clinton or a woman as
his Vice President?
They are incredibly
strong and they are contained in one of Barack Obama's favorite
words: “INCLUSIVE."
If Obama is true to his word then there is no other choice than
Hilary Clinton or a woman with similar traction because her supporters
comprise the greatest numbers of constituents from the Democratic
Party. If he wants to be inclusive he should think first of being
inclusive about the constituency of his own party;
The Obama Clinton
Campaign should create a coalition of those “left behind"
or "the disenfranchised "during the Bush Presidency.
Those left
behind are: Women, African Americans, young people, the working
class , Latinos, scholars, intellectuals and independents.
From a Concept of the "coalition of the left behind "
by the Bush Presidency should come a constituency that would favor
an Obama/Clinton Campaign over any McCain Campaign. This is a very
rich and powerful concept.
Barack Obama
brings young people, African Americans and whites, scholars and
independents together.
Barack Obama can engage parts of the necessary Democratic Coalition
left behind.
Hilary Clinton
or a woman with similar traction could bring the rest: Women, Hispanic
and Latino Voters, hard working white voters and African Americans.
Barack Obama
should choose Hilary Clinton or a woman with similar talents because
she fits his “INCLUSIVE” strategy.
Not choosing Hilary Clinton could be a huge mistake.
This is not
a tactical move to win the election, it goes far beyond tactics.
Inclusiveness is a powerful concept and if well executed guaranties
an election based on deep feeling from the "left behinds"
and more importantly it can renew the faith of the left behinds
and their right to share in the wealth and inclusion promised by
the American Democratic System.
Let' us ascend
in these times of dangers to the levels of our Founding fathers.
Let us include you the American citizen and you will not be left
behind.
Best regards
Eric Lafayette
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OUR
DREAM TEAM: More Democratic Stars on Board
Democratic
Convention 2008
By Eric Lafayette, Los Angeles August 28th 2008, published by FOR
DEMOCRACY, www.fordemocracy.com
Last night Wednesday
August 27th at the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver we witnessed
important events.
Some will say, we witnessed history being made when Barack Obama,
an African American, was officially nominated to be the Presidential
Candidate of the Democratic Party in the upcoming election. But
if Barack Obama does not become the next President of the USA it
will not rescue our nation.
Others will say, that the Vice Presidential Candidate’s speech
was important, and it was. Joe Bidden as usual was very good, and
his speech was important.
None of these events was the show stopper. The
true show stopper was PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON’S SPEECH.
Not only because it was exceptional, but because Bill Clinton
rejoined the ranks of Barack Obama's team.
With Bill on board we now have A DREAM TEAM.
Everybody rejoice, the Democrats have A DREAM TEAM!
Bill Clinton
at his best is the best campaigner there ever was in the United
States of America. There is no one in the world today that can craft
and deliver such brilliant speeches.
We now
have Democratic leaders that are far superior to John McCain and
his associates not only at framing just and visionary policies for
the future, but they are also much better at campaigning.
Here
is the dream team and each of them is better than any of McCain’s
associates as well as better than John McCain himself.
Here are the names of these brilliant men and women listed in the
order of their skills at Campaigning;
Bill
Clinton
Barack Obama
Joe Biden
Mark Werner
Hilary Clinton
Brian Schweitzer
Denis Kucinich
Make
no mistake, these leaders are not only great at campaigning but
any one of them could be elected President of the USA after Barack
Obama's serves his eight years as President and be an exceptional
President.
Racism
will be an important factor in the next elections, but if this new
dream team is well coordinated and gives 200% of its time and talent
then there is a very good chance that Barack Obama will be our next
President. To be realistic, in order to win Barack Obama will need
to be at least 6% ahead in the polls going into the final days of
the election. When polled the majority of people refuse to define
themselves as racists but when they are alone in the secret of the
voting booth 5% of them will vote as genuine racists.
On the
Republican side they have no one but McCain; even if Mitt Romney
is the Vice President he is a mediocre candidate in comparison to
any of our leaders.
Six weeks from
today, I predict that Barack Obama will be ahead in the polls by
a margin of 8% to 10%.
Enjoy
the moment and the knowledge that we have a DREAM TEAM.
Best regards,
Eric Lafayette
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OBAMA,
BIDEN, KENNEDY: THE MAGIC THREE
By Eric Lafayette, Los Angeles, August 26th 2008 published by www.fordemocracy.com
I was a Biden
supporter, and I am extremely pleased that Obama selected him as
his Vice President.
Many people
know Joe Biden as a Senator.The media has shown its praise and respect
for him as Obama’s choice because of the strength and experience
Joe Biden adds to the Democratic ticket.
He has
been a dedicated, brilliant and extremely active Senator in Washington
for thirty five years. His experience and knowledge are very valuable.
Joe Biden
is an expert in foreign affairs and he has served as Chairman of
the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Joe Biden
is fully aware of how the United States judicial system works and
has been actively involved in criminal legislation as well as serving
as the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
His name
is attached to many other important pieces of legislation almost
all of which defend and protect the oppressed, the left behind as
well as the environment.
JOE BIDEN IS
ALWAYS READY TO DEFEND THE WIDOW OR THE ORPHAN.
My
point is that after 35 years in Congress Joe Biden to his credit
is still an idealist.
Joe Biden is
an idealist but an idealist that has, through countless fights in
the Congress for good and just causes, acquired invaluable experience.
Barack
Obama is also an idealist and that is one of the reasons they like
each other and are comfortable with each other.
It is a great
team because they are both idealists.
It is a necessary team for our time because the American dream and
America’s great image was sent to the gutter by the Bush Cheney
Dictatorship.
It is a time
for reviving the ethical values that made America so great.
It is
a time for reviving the ethical values of Abraham Lincoln, George
Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Martin Luther King.
Only greatness and strength of character can spark the renewal,
revival and rebirth of the United States of America.
Obama’s
campaign has been lackluster lately because his advisers are bean-counters
in the sense that they do not want him to make a mistake and they
make him try to gain a small sliver of the electorate here, a small
sliver of the electorate there.
In addition he lowered himself into McCain territory by engaging
in stupid little squabbles that lower any candidate.
Yes you
have to answer to McCain attacks but immediately after you have
to ascend to another level, your own level, which is the level of
patriotic duty and it is the task of rebuilding the USA.
The vision of Greatness, vision of a new America, vision
of a better Democracy are all concepts that make our heart beat
faster, and they have been shelved in a remote closet.
Perhaps Joe
Biden has brought the special key that will unleash these wonderful
forces from the closet where Obama's advisers have shelved them.
OBAMA should
have gone from, “CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN," towards "REBUILDING
WE WILL STRIVE TO ACHIEVE."
Let us hope
for greatness from these two candidates.
Since
I wrote this Email yesterday afternoon a Great American has spoken:
TED KENNEDY.
He was formidable,
his message is right and was right for the last 40 years and I hope
Obama and his advisers will wake up and follow his lead.
Here are a couple of excerpts of what he said:
"The
hope rises again and the dream leaves on"
"To restore its (the USA) future, to rise to its best ideals"
"Yes we can and finally yes we will"
Here is the CNN link to his speech at the convention.
It is absolutely worth watching it if you did not see it yet and
worth watching it again if you already saw it.
Ted
Kennedy speech Democratic Convention 2008
Having watched
in the last seven days my favorite three leaders now thogether in
what is going to be a tough fight to win the opportunity to lead
America back to greatness as well as for them to bring opportunities
for the many and not for the few, higher education for all, healthcare
for all, I am a happy person and I hope you are too.
Best regards,
Eric
Lafayette
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