Democracy: You Can Roll Your Own

Along with Michelle's round up of protests, also linked in a post below, I want to call particular attention to this post from her round up that can help you set up a protest of your own.

I imagine in the Old West, rolling your own cigarettes was required and perhaps even a compared competitive skill. I know it was from the late sixties right on through to the eighties, to the extent that I can recall. ; )

Now aided by technology it is more possible than ever to roll your own democracy by managing your own protest. It seems as if Americans really are becoming more health conscious all the time. And you don't have to read Tom Daschle's book to do it. You can simply snatch a page from our Founding Fathers book. Unlike former President Clinton, I'd encourage any one that can manage to inhale. 

Comments

[Jumbo]

I am reading your words and almost crying for your lack of humanity. Your tired attempts to wish away the prosperity and progress of YOUR NATION is embarrassing. The world is watching and waiting for some sense of adult leadership and Obama is doing it. Please remember as you hope for America's failure that it happened on bush's watch. it happened because of GOP policies (remember the congress was GOP for the last 13 or so years, right? The last 8 including the WH.) So to look to your fellow citizens and wish their failure (how about: there but for the grace of God go I?) without acknowledging your own party's culpability really shows limbaugh has truly owned your mind. Thinks about it: limbaugh, the drug addicted, over sexed, overweight, blowhard, little boy lover is the GOP LEADER now. How about that? And then theres Boehner and Cantor...Boy howdy, what a bunch - you betcha. Palin/Plumber 2012.

Folks, this is serious. Your neighbors and fellow citizens need your help. Why on earth would you turn you backs on them, just to follow orders from o'reilly and beck? Really...You know those guys are millionarires right? they don't care about you - or me. They care about their careers - which you support. Please don't feel good about yourselves if your choice is the gasbags on hate radio or your own family and friends.

[Mark Turner]

OK Jumbo:

First of all, Democratic party policy is also strongly to blame for the current economic slowdown -- subprime lending is one of the root causes, and that was championed by the Democrats.

Secondly, our current situation is the result of a combination of factors accumulated over several decades, including but not limited to: wasteful government spending as a whole, a culture of invulnerability on Wall Street and in corporate America's boardrooms as a whole (entitlement and bailout mentality), reckless consumer spending, and reckless lending by the banking system.

"The world is watching and waiting for some sense of adult leadership and Obama is doing it"

On what evidence do you make this assertion? I live overseas and there is certainly not a sense that any great leadership has been demonstrated by Obama to date -- actually quite the opposite. There is also extreme skepticism with regard to the efficacy of this "stimulus" package recently passed by congress. The markets have reacted unfavorably, and rightfully so. Keynesian economic spending works when there is careful monitoring of government spending and targeting to high economic impact programs and projects. This is clearly not the case with the "stimulus" as written. I doubt anyone bothered to do a cost-benefit analysis on the spending it includes, or the package as a whole.

"...just to follow orders from o'reilly and beck? Really...You know those guys are millionarires right?"

If you do a little research, you will find that many Democratic members of congress, major donors to the both political parties, and Obama himself, are also millionaires.

If you are going to make ranting posts decrying GOP party policy and exhalting the Obama administration on conservative blog sites, please make sure you have your facts straight first, unless you enjoy looking foolish and ignorant.

[MG]

Jumbo- Go fuck yourself

[James]

I have been reading similar misinformation as Jumbo's in our newspaper's letters to the editor and some national magazines. One theme is "Republicans put us in this mess, and they created huge deficits, so why are obstructionist Republicans complaining when the Democrats have a plan to save our economy?" We need to respond with our own letters before the "lie becomes the truth."