Wednesday July 9, 2008, 12:29 am
Oh, I was happy to read some of these comments Michael, because it gave me faith back that more people do see through this two party agenda. Noted and thank you!

So for all you Obama supporters out there, you know, the ones who feel that he can be influenced by popular pressure, why not make a test of this?

Either Obama refuses to speak at any event where protesters attempting “free speech” are forced into “freedom cages”, or face reality and admit that Obama is a fascist.

There is no excuse for this. The DNC and RNC have identical approaches to preventing free speech at their conventions. There is no “lesser evil” to endorse.
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Why should Obama get a free pass? He campaigned on “Change” and now is the center of “Politics as usual”
It will be even harder for them to shut out demonstrators with the new choice of 75,000 seat Invesco Field in Denver instead of the Pepsi Center.
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Obama has already stated his pro-war (not anti-war) position, including increasing US military aggression in Afghanistan.
Obama has embraced the Republican “faith-based initiatives” that are, at best, highly problematic.
Obama has embraced the anti-poor policies that we currently have, which have been so damaging to the economy, quality of life, etc. Now, this — especially workfare/welfare “reform” policies — has not made it into the public forum, so I should say a few words about it. Conservatives think poverty is a matter of behavior rather than economics, and progressives evidently agree that it is acceptable to “amend” one’s human and legal rights solely on the grounds of economic status. By doing this, however, we’ve also ignored the impact of mandatory workfare on the entire working class. Isn’t hard to figure this out: We’ve lost hundreds of thousands of jobs, and at the same time, hundreds of thousands of people were removed from welfare rolls. Government provides businesses with financial incentives to use workfare labor. Many family-supporting jobs were broken down into pt. time/min. wage labor, for which workfare labor is used — outsourcing, without the expense of moving jobs to foreign countries for cheap labor. Businesses will lay off a chink of its workforce, quickly replacing them with workfare labor at a fraction of the wages. Some of the laid-off workers end up with no choice other than workfare, replacing other workers, and on it goes. Workfare has proved to be a powerful tool for breaking unions and suppressing wages. Obama recently stated his intentions to “enforce” mandatory workfare, which, in fact, has been stringently enforced since 1997. We can only wonder what his plans are.
And the list goes on.
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…who is opposed to the Iraq war…
-this is one of my personal favorites, the one about he is opposed to a war he always votes to fund. You figure.

…once a community organizer and activist in Chicago.
-I am so cynical of Obama I doubt this was even genuine and was done in order to be able to put it on his resume so you would buy it

…taking pains to explain that they are not against Obama.
-why not?

organizer who was a major influence on Obama, to explain why liberal groups needed to protest at the convention
-why is an explanation even needed? Isn’t it obvious enough?
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Both conventions will be very full of protestors from what I am reading here..again, thank you Michael.

Wednesday July 9, 2008, 9:30 am
Oh yes it's going to be a very active convention that no one is likely to forget for a very long time.