Daily Topics - Friday October 21st, 2011
By shawnt56
It's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!
Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes your calls
Hour Two: From Wall Street to Exotic Animals...how the right has let us down - Ciff Schecter, Libertas LLC
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#2
I have to say this new info about troops leaving Iraq by the end of the year is good news for sure. But, your changing position of absolving his administration of their inability for 3 years to stand up for the 99% is wrong headed. Maybe I misheard or interpreted what I heard when you spoke of the troop withdrawal.
This is purely get him re-elected crap. Progressives have been calling for this since the bush administration. I voted for Mr. Obama in '08. I thought, despite some questions on his voting record in the senate, that he would be a Roosevelt Democrat and truly shake up the governing landscape. What we got was the third term of George W. Bush. That is still the case. While he didn't want to look back and prosecute anyone in the Bush administration for wrong doings, now you seem to be suggesting that we don't look back at Mr Obama's lack of doing in these last 3 years? I agree,He did get some watered down legislation passed , but not what he could have in critical areas. I'm not even going down the list. You know the list. President Obama does not get a pass for killing Bin Laden and helping to kill Kadafy when we still have millions out of work, unlawful foreclosures, millions homeless, 50 million w/o health care, rendition of prisoners, and Loyd Blankfein conducting business as usual on wall street.
He'll probably get my vote again, without a viable 3rd party alternative, but I'm not sticking my head in a hole.
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The Peoples Plea
By Chuck Dunlap
October 2011
It doesn’t feel good to be singing this song
But I have to tell you that something is wrong
We’re not represented in D.C. no more
When they lie to your face just so they can make more
Our leaders have failed us
The time is at hand
To think for ourselves every woman and man
The truth is that we have the voice and the power
To pull them all down from their ivory tower
Stand and let your voice be heard
Stand and let your voice be heard
Stand up speak out this is still our country
Stand and let your voice ring free
Corporations are not people
And greed’s not success
One percent making more
And ninety-nine percent less
We used to make our own products
For good jobs and good pay
Now we’re lucky just to make it
Through just one more day
They stole your retirement
Outsourced your jobs
They got a patent says they own
The corn on your cob
When it’s illegal for a farmer
To save his own seed
We got to stand up right now
To this damn corporate greed
Stand and let your voice be heard
Stand and let your voice be heard
Stand up speak out this is still our country
Stand and let your voice ring free
Now let’s talk religion
How would Jesus feel
When he saw people sick
Or just needing a meal
He made the lame walk
He made the blind see
He fed five thousand people
And he did it for free
He didn’t charge when he helped you
Didn’t ask you to pay
Didn’t donate to people’
Who would give him his way
He didn’t look down his nose
At the people in need
The only time he showed anger
Was over bankers and greed
Stand and let your voice be heard
Stand and let your voice be heard
Stand up speak out this is still our country
Stand and let your voice ring free