Joe Bageant

[don]

for those who enjoy a good rant from Joe...

Change ... for the Worse

The Devil and Mr. Obama

Well lookee here! An invite from my limey comrades to recap Barack Obama's first year in office. Well comrades, I can do this thing two ways. I can simply state that the great mocha hope turned out to be a Trojan horse for Wall Street and the Pentagon. Or I can lay in an all-night stock of tequila, limes and reefer and puke up the entire miserable tale like some 5,000 word tequila purged Congolese stomach worm. I have chosen to do the latter.


http://www.counterpunch.org/bageant12092009.html

[Rajiv]

Re: Joe Bageant

If you like Joe Bageant, here is a good collection of his articles

The Best of Joe Bageant

[ThePythonicCow]

Re: Joe Bageant

Dang - that was one Class A rant. Thanks for the link.

[Jay]

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"The saddest thing is that Americans are cultivated like mushrooms from birth to death, kept in the dark and fed horseshit."

Great stuff.

[LargoWinch]

Re: Joe Bageant

for those who enjoy a good rant from Joe...

Change ... for the Worse

The Devil and Mr. Obama

Well lookee here! An invite from my limey comrades to recap Barack Obama's first year in office. Well comrades, I can do this thing two ways. I can simply state that the great mocha hope turned out to be a Trojan horse for Wall Street and the Pentagon. Or I can lay in an all-night stock of tequila, limes and reefer and puke up the entire miserable tale like some 5,000 word tequila purged Congolese stomach worm. I have chosen to do the latter.


http://www.counterpunch.org/bageant12092009.html

what is going on don? too lazy to link your url? ;)

[Charles Mackay]

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what is going on don? too lazy to link your url? ;)

All his writings are on his site here http://www.joebageant.com/

but this one was his best rant yet.... the rose colored sunglasses have come off on Obama and DemoPubs in general..

[don]

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what is going on don? too lazy to link your url? ;)

I was distracted by the obscure title I gave the thread :rolleyes: :eek:

[LargoWinch]

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I was distracted by the obscure title I gave the thread :rolleyes: :eek:

don, just finished reading it and wanted to point out that this is one of the best read I had all year...and we are December 10.

thanks again for sharing.

[rabot10]

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yes thanks loved it

[LargoWinch]

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yes thanks loved it

One of the many Pearls of wisdom:

The rip-off is in. We got it all. Now if you don't hand over all the people's savings and assets so we can loan it back to them, the whole flaming ball of shit you call the services and information economy is gonna come down on everybody's asses like a giant meteor.

For a moment I thought I was reading metalman.

[rjwjr]

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"There is an interest group for everything except we ordinary American pudwhackers."

Why is it that no one appears to be looking out for average Americans? We are still the majority in this Country, yet we allow special interests and minority viewpoints to dominate politics. Strange.

[don]

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"There is an interest group for everything except we ordinary American pudwhackers."

Why is it that no one appears to be looking out for average Americans? We are still the majority in this Country, yet we allow special interests and minority viewpoints to dominate politics. Strange.

See: Sparta- Role of Helots

[due_indigence]

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"There is an interest group for everything except we ordinary American pudwhackers."

Why is it that no one appears to be looking out for average Americans? We are still the majority in this Country, yet we allow special interests and minority viewpoints to dominate politics. Strange.

The point is that the average American no longer exists anymore in a very real political sense. He or she has either 'splintered' into an Armenian-American, a trial lawyer, an HMO employee or a dues-paying AFL-CIO union member. The special interest has usurped the general interest. No one is an American anymore. It's like a weird vanishing act. This is why large 'general interest' reforms on both sides of the political spectrum (health care, social security reform) can no longer be mounted. America has lost its governability. How a great nation remain great if great issues continue to elude its grasp?

[Jay]

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The point is that the average American no longer exists anymore in a very real political sense. He or she has either 'splintered' into an Armenian-American, a trial lawyer, an HMO employee or a dues-paying AFL-CIO union member. The special interest has usurped the general interest. No one is an American anymore. It's like a weird vanishing act. This is why large 'general interest' reforms on both sides of the political spectrum (health care, social security reform) can no longer be mounted. America has lost its governability. How a great nation remain great if great issues continue to elude its grasp?

Divide and conquer. Every citizen is too absorbed in meaningless lay squabbles to see what is in front of them.