
Election
2000 Forum
The "Deeper Wave" of Politics
8 September 2000 (uploaded 20 September 2000)
In his MusePaper, "Pundits
Versus People: Or, The Real Sources for Voter Apathy and Cynicism,"
Mickel Adzema writes:
"The whole world is growing together
in this age of unrepression and unleashing of truth. The possibilities
are unimaginable." [click here
to reference]
That's it exactly!
Denise Judson
denisejudson@juno.com
Praise for
Primal Spirit, Re: "Personal
Note," Changed Mind About Nader
7 September 2000 (uploaded 20 September 2000)
Hello Mickel and Mary Lynn!
I'm a fellow "lurker" (I hate that connotation),
who has been an admirer of yours since I found Primal Spirit over
a year ago. The story of your trials and tribulations was
heartbreaking to say the least ["A
Personal Note: To Friends, Colleagues, and Website Visitors . . . "].
You're back! and that in itself is wonderful news!
Because of your FUN WITH POLITICS posts, I've
changed my mind about Nader, and will be voting for Gore. Thanks
for enlightening me about the coming election, and I look forward to more
from you(s?), in the Primal Spirit.
It's good to have you back.
Regards,
John Farion
jfarioncwc@hotmail.com
Bush -- Good for Private Prison
Stocks!
28 August 2000 (uploaded 20 September 2000)
Just read somewhere that 1 out of every 20 people
in Texas is either in jail, on parole, or under clinical supervision. (I
think it was on TV, actually.)
I know that doesn't prove anything about Dubya,
but it does inductively suggest that, if he wins, private prison company
stocks would be a good bet. [*sarcasm intended*]
Gerald M. Swatez
swatez@earthlink.net
Bushisms
of the Week
15 September 2000 (uploaded 15 September 2000)
By Jacob Weisberg
"The best way to relieve families from time
is to let them keep some of their own money." -- Westminster, Calif., Sept.
13, 2000
"They have miscalculated me as a leader." --
Ibid.
"I don't think we need to be subliminable about
the differences between our views on prescription drugs." -- Orlando, Fla.,
Sept. 12, 2000
"This is what I'm good at. I like meeting
people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them." -- Outside Pittsburgh,
Sept. 8, 2000
"That's Washington. That's the place
where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before
the first shot is fired." -- Westland, Mich., Sept. 8, 2000
"Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent.
He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger
is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going
to win. And that's where I'm coming from." -- Detroit, Sept. 7, 2000
(Thanks to Michael Butler, Houston.)
"We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers
and the great country called America will be the pacemakers." -- Houston,
Sept. 6, 2000
"We don't believe in planners and deciders
making the decisions on behalf of Americans." -- Scranton, Pa., Sept. 6,
2000
"I regret that a private comment I made to
the vice-presidential candidate made it through the public airways." --
Allentown, Pa., Sept. 5, 2000.
from www.msn.com
http://slate.msn.com/code/BallotBox/BallotBox.asp?Show=9/15/2000&idMessage=6066
Passed along by John Farion
jfarioncwc@hotmail.com
See also "Political Malapropisms"
[below]
Bush Will Continue Shooting
Himself in the Foot
5 September 2000 (uploaded 15 September 2000)
Hey Mickel,
Thanks, Got "The G.
W. Bush Anti-Campaign Song"! Keep up the good work.
I'm starting to feel alot better about the
upcoming election. It seemed for a while that Gore was out of it;
it was pretty scary. But it seems he's really got some momentum going
now. I don't think Bush will be able to keep a lid on his verbal
gaffs (he's just not bright enough). Have you heard about the incident
with the mike being on and his calling a reporter a major asshole?
I love it! More to come from him I'm sure.
Once the debates start, forget about it.
Bush won't be able to help shooting himself in the foot. Gore totally
outclasses him in every way and has more integrity in his pinky than
Bush has in his whole silver-spoon-fed, elitist
family!
Russell Miller
millerrussell@hotmail.com
Tide Turning
for Gore?
2 September 2000 (uploaded 10 September 2000)
An update on the Nader thing . . . I talked again
with my chiropractor and nutritionist. (Last time we talked was before
the Democratic convention when Gore was behind 17 points.) The chiropractor
is still leaning towards Nader but my nutritionist is definitely voting
for Gore. She likes the poll numbers and she really likes Lieberman.
Cheryl Ross
cheryl14@email.msn.com
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Scary
Bush
1 September 2000 (uploaded 10 September 2000)
Is Bush scary? What about Clinton?
Or Gore? [See Scary]
Anna
Attacks
on My Generation by a Conservatively-Owned Media; The Attack on Feelingness;
Bush As a Regression to Past Disasters; Pundits and Media -- Paid for by
the Wealthy Elite -- Fostering Cynicism; Only the Elitist Intelligentsia
Have the Luxury to Ignore Gore
1 September 2000 (uploaded 10 September 2000)
Yes, in my humble opinion, Bush is scary.
Clinton is one of the best presidents we have
ever had. His major fault has something to do with his not abiding
by a moral minorities repressive sexual mores, not my own. He was
attacked from the beginning because he was part of my generation -- the
Sixties idealistic generation -- and his attackers have been more the media,
and the wealthy elite that owns them, than the people. [See "Pundits
Versus People"]
If you are truly interested. Check out
my MusePapers on Clinton ["It's
the Attack on Privacy, Stupid!" and "Why
We Needed Clinton to Lie"], and the Election
2000 Alert section. Also check out my Musepapers on "Drugs,
Consciousnesses, and Generational Cultures" and my "Pleasantville"
review. (Also my "Apocalypse" book
and article).
Gore has the same problem. He is from
my generation -- a generation that feels and cares. And we are ever
going to be ridiculed whenever we expresses our feelingness -- whether
it is mocking Clinton for saying "I feel your pain" or mocking Gore when
he kisses his wife. Those who have been forced to repress their own
soft feelings hate people who still have them. And they think that
feelingness is "sentimentalism" or "bleeding heart." And my generation
is ever going to be ridiculed by a cynical media and a cynical, jaded intelligentsia.
Most of my generation know how our revolution
was stolen from us by the wealthy WWII folks who took greater control over
the universities, the publications, and the media in the early Seventies.
If you don't believe me, check my site out
as I put up my book: The Once and Current Generation.
Or you can read about it in the book by -- his name slips my mind now,
and my library was destroyed in my house fire -- anyway the guy who wrote
The Making of a Counterculture. He has a later book which describes
the stealing of the "revolution" by the threatened status quo, with the
power of their money and positions of influence. He is now a professor
of history somewhere in the UC system; maybe UC Davis.
Gore is the last chance for my generation to
realize some of its ideals, such as feminism, environmentalism, ending
racism, ending sexism, ending corporate corruption and control of government,
ending concentration of wealth and power in a minority elite, and the like
-- or we will spend the rest of our lives
undoing the messes that Republicans foist on ordinary Americans -- like
Reagan-Bush's quadrupling of the National Debt -- in their pursuing their
primary purpose for existing, which is to line their pockets and those
of their corporate supporters and their rich friends . . . at whatever
cost., etc. If you think Gore is scary, you must watch too much TV.
[See "Pundits
Versus People"]
If you don't think Bush is scary, are you aware
that two of his main issues are a huge tax cut for the wealthy alongside
massive expenditures for defense. A little history: THOSE are
exactly the economic priorities that Reagan used, which quadrupled our
National Debt! Where's gonna be the money for environmental cleanup
and pollution prevention, child care, peace, and the like in the future,
if Bush is allowed to repeat the mistakes of the Eighties -- mistakes that
it has taken eight long years (working hard against the wishes of a
Republican Congress) to begin to turn around.
What kind of a future did we have set up for us after 12 years of Reagan-Bush:
one in which our children and grandchildren would be saddled with a debt
so huge it would leave nothing over for the environment or for a decent
quality of life. What would we have after Bush-Cheney were to employ
those same economics? Yes, I think that's scary.
Consider what Jeannine Parvati Baker has to
say on Gore. She is someone who, unlike the vast majority of people
who claim to be intellectuals, has actually done her inner work around
her birth and early life and so doesn't intellectually act it out like
most of the rest who speak out on these issues do -- who at best can only
be considered "pseudo-intellectuals." It would be immensely helpful
to know when a person is speaking from experience (about the effects around
birth and early infancy) -- like Jeannine is -- or is just spewing out
from their unconscious Pain and using highly selective "book knowledge"
as their sources.
Anyway, Jeannine is the author of Conscious
Conception, among other books. She wrote:
27 August 2000
Dear Mickel and Mary Lynn,
BLESSED BE!!
I'm stoked that you're working for GORE.
My most effective line in enrolling more voters is Tipper's statement:
"I've given birth to 4 babies without drugs, so I guess I do know something."
Gore added that she "breastfed all their children and teaches their staff
how to breastfeed."
Finally, it saddens me that the media has so influenced
people like yourself, scaring you, and triggering your birth pain so that
you see the whole world as evil and scary and all politicians as bad, so
that you cannot see the good and honest people out there, like Gore, who
are working their asses off to make a better world for you.
We've got work to do. We can only do
it by learning who our friends are and who are those who oppose us.
Check out the streaming
video of Jesse Jackson's speech to the Democratic convention (the one
that was blacked out by all the major networks, save C-Span), if you want
to know where I'm coming from. As he said after the convention, "It's
Super Bowl time." And only the elitist intelligentsia have the luxury
to blur the differences between Gore and Bush. Others don't have
that luxury: not the Blacks, the poor, the people without healthcare, and
the underprivileged for any reason.
Respectfully,
mickel@primalspirit.com
5 September 2000 (uploaded 20 September 2000)
Your response to Anna (above) has given me reason
to pause and re-evaluate my conclusion re: Gore. It might help others
to rethink their positions, too. They should check out the links.
John Farion
jfarioncwc@hotmail.comt
I Like Clinton and Gore; and
Re: Judgmental People
2 September 2000 (uploaded 15 September 2000)
I like Clinton. Gore as well. When
Clinton's morality and that he lied under oath about what transpired was
exploited by the media I was amused by the responses of others around me.
Did anyone ever think to feel that we are only human? We constantly
live in a world of judgments. But judgments by whom? We can
share truths about ourselves to other people, but, no matter what, people
will continue to believe only what they want.
Who the heck cares about Clinton's private
life . . . what matters is how effective he is.
Kathryn
mightymini@earthlink.net
2 September 2000 (uploaded 15 September 2000)
Kathryn,
Glad to hear your response. Yes, it was
amusing wasn't it. Self-righteousness rampant. I would tell
people at the time, "I'm not so ready to condemn Clinton, because I know
I have skeletons in my own closet, which I wouldn't want the whole world
to know about." That would usually cause a silence. Apparently
it had them terrified in bringing to mind the "dirty little secrets" that
they also have (and we ALL have!).
Anyway, nice to hear from you. And now
let's hope we can get Gore elected!
Warm regards,
Mickel
mickel@primalspirit.com.
Not Needing Self-Righteous
Input
2 September 2000 (uploaded 15 September 2000)
Mickel:
You said it all!!! So did Doestoevsky
in his book Crime and Punishment. We punish ourselves enough
without having to have everyone else's self-righteous, biased, etc., etc.,
input.
Nice to have a pleasant exchange with you.
I keep my fingers crossed that Gore makes it in too!!
Kathryn
mightymini@earthlink.net
5 September 2000 (uploaded 20 September 2000)
Hi Kathryn,
I like Clinton and Gore too. The most fascinating
thing to me is how the Washington opposition to Clinton is so sanctimonious
about his behavior. It is like the pot calling the kettle black.
Richard Foy
rfoy@alum.calberkeley.org
No "Safe"
Politician?
1 September 2000 (uploaded 10 September 2000)
For me, there is no "safe" politician as the road
to power is always lined with the political corpses.
I am an anarchist in a classical sense.
Anna
There ARE Differences; White
Intellectual Elitism
5 September 2000 (uploaded 10 September 2000)
Anna,
I guess we just have to agree to disagree.
Because you did ask me, "what about
Clinton, what about Gore" . . . I felt compelled
to respond.
I know you are against all politicians. As
a former radical political activist, I have many friends like you, and
I love them dearly. But I'll never forget one of those friends telling
me, when I asked her "What if we won, what if we got in power and were
able to fix things?" responding to me "Well, I'd be on the outside of you
guys. Because we always have to have an opposition." It seems for
some people it can never be OK, and there always has to be bad guys and
people to struggle with . . . that winning is not
OK, just struggling.
Well I agree that things should always be open
for contrasting viewpoints, but there is a difference between people who
fought for civil rights and people who beat Blacks in the streets and/or
lynched them, a difference between people who voted for Social Security
and Medicare and people who voted against them, and a difference between
people who supported the Nazis in Germany and those who helped Jews escape
to safety (like Schindler).
I just don't think that anarchism
is going to help the abused kids or save us from nuclear or environmental
annihilation. I think it is elitist, that is why I suggested you
view the Jesse
Jackson video. He explains clearly why the social problems we
are facing don't allow that "luxury" of supposedly "principled" elitism
-- which has no fruits.
Respectfully,
mickel@primalspirit.com.
5 September 2000 (uploaded 20 September 2000)
This is the second of Mickel's analyses affecting
my decision to vote for Gore instead of Nader; and it's a little more to
the point. It is more representative of the reasons (for switching
my vote) because of the background thoughts underpinning them.
(Obi-Wan Kenobi - you're our only hope. . .
. )
John Farion
jfarioncwc@hotmail.comt
"Winning Is Not OK, Just Struggling"
5 September 2000 (uploaded 15 September 2000)
Mickel, you stated, " . . . that winning
is not OK, just struggling."
*WOW* - that explains damn near ALL the activists
that I know [up here] especially in the medical cannabis front - BUT lots
of them in other areas too [tree huggers et al].
NOT that I'm down on what they may be preaching
- just always wondered WHY their seemed to be such little ability to find
ANY middle ground - and in fact seem to want to PUSH the 'line' out more
- when they DO get full demands.
I see this all the time - and FELT [pre-verbal?]
what you said above - BUT you put it into perfect words - and of course
the infant state that your words suggest is obvious!. . .
You also wrote:
"I just don't think that
anarchism is going to help the abused kids or save us from nuclear or environmental
annihilation."
IMHO the ONLY 'thing' that is going to save
us from all and any of the above is taking care of the kids better - in
the OLD saw "Think globally and act locally" - well it works well for parenting
too! .. Every act for a child [even the most mundane] is one that will
effect the out come of the environment - welfare - nuclear war - clear
cutting - the Ozone MUCH MORE then just about anything I can think of doing!
Every time one HONORS a kid - they LIFT the
weight a bit of the CRITICAL MASS of SELF HATE - that this planet's whole
population labors under.
as always,
Erik Heimstadt
child@northcoast.com
PS and thanks again for the perfect words for
the feelings of "winning is NOT okay - only struggling is!"
Republicans -- Smaller
Government, Indeed!
8 September 2000 (uploaded 10 September 2000)
If anyone brings up the subject again about how
Republicans stand for smaller government, I want that person enlighten
me and everyone else in this country just what they consider as small in
light of the fact that their "supposed" pro-life stance represents nothing
short of taking total control of a woman's right to make decisions regarding
her body and her reproductive process ?? . . .
Smaller government indeed.
Alfred Ferencz Marton
marton@san.rr.com
Poway, CA
Bush
Throws Food on Families!
31 August 2000 (uploaded 10 September 2000)
Who in their right minds would want Bush in charge?
Do you know of anyone who would want Bush, or anyone else for that matter
to have food thrown on their families ?? [See Food]
Alfred Ferencz Marton
marton@san.rr.com
Poway, CA
Political Malapropisms
4 September 2000 (uploaded 5 September 2000)
From the Psychohistory List:
As Yogi Berra would say: "When you come to the
fork in the road, take it. "
Political Tongue Twisters
Bob Herbert NY TIMES
August 28, 2000
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reporters covering George W. Bush's presidential
campaign are having a field day with his so-called Bushisms. It's
understandable. They're irresistible:
"We must all hear the universal call to like
your neighbor just like you like
to be liked yourself," he said.
And then there was his message to struggling
workers: "I know how hard it is
to putfood on your family."
Yogi Berra, move over. Let the governor
of Texas hit some malaprop-ups. Back in February, Mr. Bush said of
John McCain, "He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road."
You want economic insight? "We ought
to make the pie higher," Mr. Bush said.
These comments should not be dismissed as mere
gaffes. We owe it to the governor to take him somewhat seriously.
Consider the following question, which he posed in New Hampshire: "Will
the highways on the Internet become more few?"
Whew!
The danger if Mr. Bush keeps this up is that
we will start to think of him as some kind of champ in the fine art of
malaprophesizing. That would be a mistake. Consider, for starters,
that the term Bushism initially referred to that great malapropartist George
Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States and father
of the current contender. President Bush once said, "We're enjoying
sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much." He said, "It's
no exaggeration to say the undecideds could go one way or another."
He said, in a reference to Dan Quayle: "My running mate took the lead,
was the author of the Job Training Partnership Act. Now, because
of a lot of smoke and frenzying of bluefish out there, going after a drop
of blood in the water, nobody knows that."
So, as you see, this ability of the younger
Mr. Bush to get entangled in the obscurer thickets of the language is not
that unusual. The plain truth is that politicians have always been
brilliant at finding new ways to insert their feet into mouths that inevitably
are running too much. Which is why you have books with titles like
"Political Babble: The 1,000 Dumbest Things Ever Said by Politicians."
And, "The 267 Stupidest Things Democrats Ever Said." (There's one for Republicans,
too.)
Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, commenting on an earthquake
when he was governor of California, said: "This is the worst disaster in
California since I was elected."
Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut nicely
bungled an appearance on behalf of a Democratic Senate candidate in South
Carolina by saying: "We've got a strong candidate. I'm trying to think
of his name."
Did I mention Dan Quayle? He may be the
champ. "Republicans," he said, "understand the importance of bondage
between parent and child."
The former vice president was a master at mangling
the language. He once said: "I believe we are on an irreversible
trend toward more freedom and democracy. But that could change."
His most famous foul-up, now enshrined in Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations, was a reference to the motto of the United Negro College
Fund, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." Said Mr. Quayle:
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind is being
very wasteful. How true that is."
Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago was terrific
at this sort of thing. These were some of his best: "I resent your
insinuendoes." "The police are not here to create disorder. They're
here to preserve disorder." "We shall reach greater and greater platitudes
of achievement."
And then, of course, there was Ronald Reagan.
Entire books have been written
about his flubs. I loved the time when,
annoyed by something Ed Asner had said, Mr. Reagan snapped, "What does
an actor know about politics?"
So Mr. Bush should take heart. He's not
the only one out there hacking away at the language. He might say
on "Meet the Press," "Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children
is sometimes until we get an objective analysis." Or, on the "Today"
show: "I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince
those college students to accept my tenants."
But he is not alone. As Mayor Daley happily
pointed out, "No man is an Ireland."
With much appreciation, Passed along by Julienne
julienne@ptd.net
1 September 2000
Anthony Radford's idea of helping to elect Gore
by getting out a rock-and-roll tune with the chorus, "Bush is scary," [SeeScary]
may be a tad hard to pull off, especially
this late, but it HAS got me to thinking. After having suggested
those words be used to the tune of the "Hallelujah"
chorus, today I thought of a classic rock-and-roll tune that might
be of use.
Let's call this the G. W. Bush Anti-Campaign
Song.
To the tune of "My Generation," by The Who.
You know, the one that starts out, "People try to put us down . . . [background:
"Talkin' bout my gen-eration"] . . . just because we get around ["Talkin'
bout my gen-eration."]. Don't want to make a great sen-sation ["Talkin'
bout my gen-eration] . . . just talkin' bout my, Generation. . . .
" and so on) Anyway:
The G. W. Bush Anti-Campaign
Song
"HE's a big ol' hy-po-crit.
(Trai-tor to Our Gen-eration)
"You know he don't, give-a-shit.
(Trai-tor to Our Gen-eration)
"Don't wanna make, bet-ter nation,
(Trai-tor to Our Gen-eration)
"Just sellin' out, our, generation.
"Our Generation . . . Our Generation, ba-by!
"Why don't he just f-f-f-f-fade away . . .
(Trai-tor to Our Gen-eration)
"Y'can't believe, a word, he SAYs . . .
(Trai-tor to Our Gen-eration)
"Just a blown up, cor-prate creation . . .
(Trai-tor to Our Gen-eration)
"He's a trait-or to, our, Gen-eration.
"Our Generation . . . Our Generation, ba-by!
"The-then again, you say he's not . . .
(Traitor to Our Gen-eration)
"Just you say, for who's he fought!
(Traitor to Our Gen-eration)
"He's got a big, big . . . big ol' Pa--pa .
. .
(Traitor to Our Gen-eration)
"Can't make up for, what he's not (a)
"Our Generation . . . Our Generation, ba-by!"
So what do you think? Anybody have any
more lyrics . . . any more songs?
With sympathy and all due respect to the huge
multinational corporations, especially the oil industry, who wasted so
much of their hard-stolen money on this pretty face and empty suit (and
mind) and this Cowboy Ticket,
Mickel Adzema
mickel@primalspirit.com
27 August 2000 (uploaded 28 August 2000)
Dear Mickel and Mary Lynn,
BLESSED BE!!
I'm stoked that you're working for GORE.
My most effective line in enrolling more voters is Tipper's statement:
"I've given birth to 4 babies without drugs, so I guess I do know
something."
Gore added that she "breastfed all their children and teaches their staff
how to breastfeed."
Welcome back, my friends. I missed you.
Love, Jeannine
Jeannine Parvati Baker
freestone@hubwest.com
FREESTONE
INNERPRIZES -- Optimal Personal, Family, & Planetary Health
http://www.freestone.org/
Utah
[See Jeannine's provocative, insightful article
on this site: "Ending
Circumcision: Where Sex and Violence First Meet"]
26 August 2000 (uploaded 28 August 2000)
Dear Mickel and Mary Lynn,
I believe you are very correct on this election's
importance. The US election will have implications nationally and
globally. I think that extreme right wingism -- if it wins -- will
further destroy the psychic substrata of America, and this will impact
globally in terms of international instability.
Regards,
Ian Irvine
asphodel@iaccess.com.au
Co-editor
The
Animist: Electronic Journal of the Arts
http://theanimist.netgazer.net.au/
Australia
Re: "A
Personal Note": Gore
the Environmentalist, Greens & Nader Helping Conservative Republicans
26 August 2000 (uploaded 28 August 2000)
People forget that a lot of folks decided to vote
for Clinton when he selected Al Gore as his vice-presidential running mate.
In fact, I am one of those people because of my deep concern for the environment.
One of my concerns now is for those many who
lean to the left who are going to vote for Ralph Nader. (My nutritionist
and chiropractor both say they will vote for Nader "...because Gore isn't
going to win and I want the Green Party to get the matching funds so they
can become stronger.")
My sister, a journalist, told me that the Green
Party is very strong in New Mexico and conservative Republicans keep getting
elected because of the Democrats who vote for the Green Party candidates,
thus taking away votes from their own party candidates.
Cheryl Ross
cheryl14@email.msn.com
Colorado
Re: Dubbya Bush on Guns,
and His Record in Texas
15 August 2000 (uploaded 23 August 2000)
From the Psychohistory List:
Forward from my own List (Julienne):
The Guns of Texas
By Mark A. R. Kleiman
George W. Bush's acceptance speech included
a promise "to strictly enforce the nation's gun laws." Not a bad idea.
But, in the words of George W. Bush, "He had his chance. He did not
lead."
Julienne's Response:
Ahhh- but he has led Texas down a few paths
-- take a look -- George Bush's record:
The State of Texas, under the leadership
of Governor George W. Bush, is ranked:
50th in spending for teachers' salaries,
49th in spending on the environment,
48th in per-capita funding for public
health,
47th in delivery of social services,
42nd in child-support collections,
41st in per-capita spending on public
education and . . .
5th in percentage of population living
in poverty,
1st in air and water pollution,
1st in percentage of poor, working
parents without insurance,
1st in percentage of children without
health insurance,
1st in executions (average 1 every
2 weeks for Bush's 5 years as governor).
Just think of what he could do for (to)
our country if he were president!
Julienne
julienne@ptd.net
Let's
Elect Gore!
21 August 2000 (uploaded 23 August 2000)
Mary Lynn and Mickel
Your email on the importance of the upcoming election
was interesting. We, also, need real ammunition to win, not just
an expression of our desires. Here are three 16-inch shells:
The fact is that all the recessions of the last
50 years occurred soon after Republican presidents were elected.
Most new-republican types lost their investments then, but those who did
not have to sell made fortunes. I lost $80,000 when Nixon came in
and if we had
not started a business and bought a house
we would be still be working today with a jacket and tie. Remember
the Bush recession? He couldn't even think of running for re-election.
Next, the donkeys need to keep asking for debates
as the public will understand that the elephant is afraid to discuss the
issues.
Finally you have to find a good popular rock
and roller to sing a song with the chorus of
" Bush is scary, Bush is scary "
On the other hand, it is all right if Bush
wins because we are trying to sell the other house because it is worth
over $100,000 more in one year and we would like to invest in a new low-priced
market, which a recession would bring. ;-)
Anthony and Eunice Radford
ajr@zenrad.org
California
Anthony Radford, author and webmaster:
From Goddess
to King -- The Oera Linda Book, Ancient Western European History, Matriarchal
Age
www.zenrad.org
27 August 2000
Response:
Don't know about getting a rock-and-roll
tune with that chorus, but how about Handel's "Messiah"
for starters -- the "Hallelujah" chorus. You know, the one we hear
all Christmas long. But try using these words instead:
"BUSH is scary,
BUSH is scary,
Bush-is-scary
Bush-is-scary
Bush is sca-aa-aa-ry
Born of a Pres-i-dent and Bar-Bra Bush
Bush-is-scary, Bush-is-scary!"
Anyway, you get the idea. :-)
Mickel
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