Forum Post: The TORCH that Obama dropped
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 10, 2011, 9:20 p.m. EST by TIOUAISE
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The incredible irony of it is that the smooth talker who coined the slogan "YES WE CAN" obviously CAN'T OR WON'T walk the talk... but others have wrested the torch from his failing hands and exclaimed: YES.! "WE THE PEOPLE" CAN!!!
I was moved to tears when I heard young protesters risking their lives in Tahrir Square yell in English "YES WE CAN!!!", while back in Washington "The Man" was too chicken - until the very last stage - to voice support for the Egyptian uprising : "Ah.... er.... gee... I dunno.... I urge restraint, I guess?"
Just like the young Egyptian heroes, the OWS Movement is picking up THE TORCH THAT OBAMA DROPPED. Had Obama been true to his fine-sounding words, OWS may not even have been necessary.
But how I LOVE to see a whole people heroically rise up and chant with one voice : YES., "WE THE PEOPLE" CAN!!! That, to me, is the highest form of sacred, collective self-love.
I tend to agree. Obama campaigned like he was going to be FDR, who got the US through the first Great Depression. But he governs like Herbert Hoover, who got hit with an economic collapse he didn't create and had no clue what to do about it.
Krugman and Stiglitz know the way
You must forgive my parrot "jjrousseau714" : he knows only one sentence and he keeps repeating it all day long... "Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"... "Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"....'Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"..."Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"..."Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"... "Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"..."Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"....Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"...."Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"..."Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"...
Trust Stiglitz and Krugman to lead the way
Please forgive my parrot "jjrousseau714" : he knows only one sentence and he keeps repeating it all day long... "Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"... "Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"....'Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"..."Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"..."Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"... "Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"..."Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"....Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"...."Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"..."Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"..."Krugman and Stiglitz know the way"... At lest he has an excuse: he's just a poor dumb bird! Want a cracker, JJ? Feeling sleepy, JJ? Wanna go back in your cage now???
Wall Street laughs at us behind their protective walls as does the President and Congress. Kindred spirits UNITE! We need to expand to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and take our message to President Obama! Congress also needs to hear us. They both have the power to change things. Things that they created
So Wall Street is laughing at us? That's actually very heartening!
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win!" GANDHI
What you guys want Bohner and Cantor and Romney and the rest of the Republicans that want to give the Rich more money and destroy the Middle Class??!!??
WE want NEITHER of these completely fraudulent political parties that have brought this country to the brink... NEITHER is trustworthy. May they both disappear from the political landscape so that a new, glorious sun may rise on a New America!
yes well even in holland we where speechles when he was chosen. black , and well spoken ,charismatic , but now he seems just a puppet on a string , and maybe he cant change it but he sure made a chill across the world a chill of a fair and better world so now its yes we can ;-)
During the presidential campaign, Obama the Conniver exploited to the max the "First Black President" myth - he's not even black, by the way, he's mulatto - doing a great impersonation of Martin Luther King, whose key words he constantly used ("hope", "change", etc.), but as soon as he was sitting in the blood-stained White House, he turned against the people who had put their faith in him. More and more analysts studying his ACTIONS - as opposed to his WORDS - are saying that Obama is actually worse than Bush.
as soon as your in the white house you are confrontated with other powers where you wherent aware of. i guess
Obama was NOT naive. Those who had dealings with him in Chicago knew from way back when what a conniving canary he was...
i dont know but lobbys and hidden agendas are very powerful that i know ;-)
hmm nice and clear written and agree with you
P.S. The full title I had in mind was "THE TORCH THAT OBAMA DROPPED SET THE WORLD ON FIRE."