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10-10-2009 ~ I appreciate this letter by Michael Moore.
The so-called left-wing is so out of touch with ordinary Americans that it cannot see basic goodness when it shines out at them. I remember the bummer I felt with just the idea that the Fascist Bush was President, especially after he was re-elected! Waking up every morning into the dreaded nightmare of Pig Bush being President. We need to count our blessings, not our curses. For better or for worse, we have the most positive progressive President in U.S. history! At least we know he is not a racist!!!
Yeah, Obama is screwing up in Afghan and has not lived up to all of his campaign promises. What promises have you broken or have failed to live up to? Did you ever promise to fight for the revolution until the day you died or were really to get out in a blaze of glory firing away!? Did you ever promise you would be more loving, more humane and more understanding of others? Let the one who has not sinned cast the first stone!
Many Lefties need to grow up, to humble themselves, to get out of the left vs. right political schizophrenia. It is a matter of what is morally right versus what is morally wrong! The truth is in the center and the people are the truth!!! Many of the old Vanguard sold out long ago!
I was really surprised when Obama actually won the Presidency! I was actually proud to be an American citizen! Yeah, me... the Crazy Chicano!
I was pleased to know that American voters were actually able to overcome any lasting remnants of racism ~ including Mexican-American dark- skinned voters and their racism against 'blacks'! We can expect your typical red-neck to be racist. We expect the reactionary crap from the racist reactionaries but most of the crap otherwise has come from our own so-called progressive peoples! Are we all on the same side here or not! Insane!
Raise your consciousness! Change! Change constantly in creative ways. Do not get stuck on stupid! Turn off your damn computer, walk away, go out for a walk in your local ghetto-barrio if you have the nerve. Get your lazy ass out there and talk to people in the street. Plan and plot about your local elections, encourage people to register to vote!!! Give food to the hungry, shelter to the homeless, visit local prisoners in the county jail and spent time talking and LISTENING to lost children and aimless teenagers!
If you are already integrating yourself with the people fine. I am talking about the fat ass so-called radicals who don't do nothing but bitch and whine about what others are doing or not doing. If you are all that go out and create your own 'focos'! Are you willing to pick up the gun now!!?? Do you even have a gun! Can you shoot straight? Do you go target practice? More important, do you have the guts to use a gun!?!? Who do you want to shoot? Who do you want to kill!? Kill your own old backward ways, your own frozen ideology, your own false assumptions! Do you study the martial arts?! Do you really know of the art of war!?
Revolution is an on-going developmental process, not a frozen set of conclusions. It is a process, not an ideal. A true relevant revolution would be great leap forward in human evolution.
We must utilize all PEACEFUL LEGAL AND LEGITIMATE MEANS AVAILABLE TO US IN ORDER TO RAISE CONSCIOUSNESS!
Never before in human history have people been able to reach out to others as we can today because of the power of the Internet! Use it wisely with love, peace and understanding. I am not your enemy! I am an ally, a warrior in the fight for justice, for sanity and common humane rights for all peoples!
I work in a homeless shelter and am there SEVEN DAYS A WEEK either doing one-on-one counseling, workshops or running meetings! A frickin' domestic American refugee camp! I got vets who are fighting their addiction and can't even think straight or formulate a coherent sentence suffering from PTSD! I got dope fiends biting their lips, drunkards with the shakes struggling to stay sober, terrorized victims of child and spousal abuse and many other of your fellow Americans.
I know what poverty, oppression and suffering looks like! I got people who are pleased to have a clean blanket, sheets and a lumpy old pillow to sleep with at night in a dormitory sleeping with a bunch of strangers to them! How do you sleep at night!!!???
Education for Liberation! Venceremos Unidos!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Yahoo Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com
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From: Michael Moore <maillist@michaelmoore.com>
To: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com
Sent: Sat, October 10, 2009 2:53:17 PM
Subject: Get Off Obama's Back ...second thoughts from Michael Moore
Get Off Obama's Back ...second thoughts from Michael Moore
Saturday, October 10th, 2009
Friends,
Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard on Obama in my letter yesterday congratulating him on his Nobel Prize. "No, I don't think so," I replied. I thought it was important to remind him he's now conducting the two wars he's inherited. "Yeah," she said, "but to tell him, 'Now earn it!'? Give the guy a break -- this is a great day for him and for all of us."
I went back and re-read what I had written. And I listened for far too long yesterday to the right wing hate machine who did what they could to crap all over Barack's big day. Did I -- and others on the left -- do the same?
We are weary, weary of war. The trillions that will have gone to these two wars have helped to bankrupt us as a nation -- financially and morally. To think of all the good we could have done with all that money! Two months of the War in Iraq would pay for all the wells that need to be dug in the Third World for drinking water! Obama is moving too slow for most of us -- but he needs to know we are with him and we stand beside him as he attempts to turn eight years of sheer madness around. Who could do that in nine months? Superman? Thor? Mitch McConnell?
Instead of waiting to see what the president is going to do, we all need to be pro-active and push the agenda that we want to see enacted. What keeps us from forming the same local groups we put together to get out the vote last November? C'mon! We're the majority now -- the majority by a significant margin! We call the shots -- and we need to tell this wimpy Congress to get busy and do what we say -- or else.
All I ask of those who voted for Obama is to not pile on him too quickly. Yes, make your voice heard (his phone number is 202-456-1414). But don't abandon the best hope we've had in our lifetime for change. And for God's sake, don't head to bummerville if he says or does something we don't like. Do you ever see Republicans behave that way? I mean, the Right had 20 years of Republican presidents and they still couldn't get prayer in the public schools, or outlaw abortion, or initiate a flat tax or put our Social Security into the stock market. They did a lot of damage, no doubt about that, but on the key issues that the Christian Right fought for, they came up nearly empty handed. No wonder they've been driven crazy lately. They'll never have it as good again as they've had it since Reagan took office.
But -- do you ever see them looking all gloomy and defeated? No! They keep on fighting! Every day. Our side? At the first sign of wavering, we just pack up our toys and go home.
So, at least for this weekend, let us celebrate what people elsewhere are celebrating -- that America now has a sane and smart man in the White House, a man who truly wants a world at peace for his two daughters.
Many, for the past couple days (yes, myself included), have grumbled, "What has he done to earn this prize?" How 'bout this:
The simple fact that he was elected was reason enough for him to be the recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Because on that day the murderous actions of the Bush/Cheney years were totally and thoroughly rebuked. One man -- a man who opposed the War in Iraq from the beginning -- offered to end the insanity. The world has stood by in utter horror for the past eight years as they watched the descendants of Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson light the fuse of our own self-destruction. We flipped off the nations on this planet by abandoning Kyoto and then proceeded to melt eight more years worth of the polar ice caps. We invaded two nations that didn't attack us, failed to find the real terrorists and, in effect, ignited our own wave of terror. People all over the world wondered if we had gone mad.
And if all that wasn't enough, the outgoing Joker presided over the worst global financial collapse since the Great Depression.
So, yeah, at precisely 11:00pm ET on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. And the 66 million people who voted for him won it, too. By the time he took the stage at midnight ET in the Grant Park Historic Hippie Battlefield in downtown Chicago, billions of people around the globe were already breathing a huge sigh of relief. It was as if, in that instant, one man did bring the promise of peace to the world -- and most were ready to go wherever he wanted to go to achieve that end. Never before had the election of one man made every other nation feel like they had won, too. When you've got billions of people ready, willing and able to join a cause like this, well, a prize in Oslo is the least that you deserve.
One other thought. The Peace Prize historically has been given to those who have worked to throw off the yoke of racial discrimination and segregation (Martin Luther King, Jr., Desmond Tutu). I think the Nobel committee, in awarding Obama the prize, was also rewarding the fact that something profound had happened in a nation that was founded on racial genocide, built on racist slavery, and held back for a hundred-plus years by vestiges of hateful bigotry (which can still be found on display at teabagger rallies and daily talk radio). The fact that this one man could cause this seismic historical event to occur -- and to do so with such grace and humility, never succumbing to the bait, but still not backing down (yes, he asked to be sworn in as "Barack Hussein Obama"!) -- is more than reason enough he should be in Oslo to meet the King on December 10. Maybe he could take us along with him. 'Cause I also suspect the Nobel committee was tipping its hat to all of us -- we, the American people, had conquered some of our racism and did the truly unexpected. After seeing searing images of our black fellow citizens left to drown in New Orleans -- and poor whites seeing their own treated no better than the black man they had been raised to hate -- we had all seen enough. It was time for change.
Thank you, Barack Obama, for giving us the opportunity to redeem ourselves. Now for the tasks ahead. We need you to do all that you promised to do. We need it. The world needs it.
My prediction for the future? You become the first *two-time* winner of the Nobel Peace Prize! Yeah!
Fred (that's Norwegian for "Peace"),
Michael Moore
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