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posted by
UtahJay
on July 1, 2013 at 7:46 AM
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I to must admit I fell hard for his words about "change". I don't agree with some of his policies.. he is inexperienced and weak. But I also see members of congress blocking some of his good policies for there own reasons (be they honorable or not) giving no thought to what is good for our countries citizens. So I hope you don't mind if I share 1 excerpt from a review of Edward Klein's book, "The Amateur". As I also know there many more reviews of this book. This one mostly suits the way I feel and see it.
Anonymous
Posted May 19, 2012
"Despair for our political system" "But what I really took away from it was a sense of despair for our political sytem. Ultimately, the book reinforced my growing fear that our political system is broken. One could use the text and roughly the same stories and context and substitute members of the Reagan, Clinton, or second Bush administrations and have the same sense of what is going on. It is a world of personal pettiness, double-crosses, corruption, and gotcha-politics where politics and self-interest trump policy and the needs of the American people on virtually every issue. Politics is a business where the objective is power--gaining it, exercising it, and retaining it. In the end , the book reminded me that the leadership of Democratic administrations is no more committed to egalitarian access to and sharing of power than than they criticize the Republicans for. I don't know the answer or the right approach to getting it, but some of us need to go to work to fix the system before it is too late."
egalitarian asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people,
Please be understanding of my long comment as I just felt the need to share. TY
posted by
yellowrose55
on June 30, 2013 at 8:00 PM
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Egypt is unravelling again. Sigh!!
posted by
Kabu
on June 30, 2013 at 7:29 PM
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I have a feeling that it is not going to be a boring three years, and that we will see more and more and more blogging on the subject.
posted by
TAPS.
on June 30, 2013 at 6:26 PM
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You are absolutely right. The disturbing thing about this in all areas of life is that charisma supercedes that which is just and honorable. Attorneys are in place to use words to make right wrong and wrong right and those outside the circle can and will not do a thing about it but watch and talk.
Those like me after and while standing up to these people for self and others end up in debt and bruised for daring to think in own best interest also. Great post.
posted by
Dr_JPT
on June 30, 2013 at 3:04 PM
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The statistics are quite telling...It is a shame how many Americans are asleep...
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on June 30, 2013 at 9:46 AM
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Unfortunately I think you are absolutely right Naut... the AW will stumble around for another three years... and gawd knows what kind of damage he will do. Be well my friend :-) xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on June 30, 2013 at 9:29 AM
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