Morning Joe got one thing right this morning -Americans like to WIN

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I think the problem is that Barack needs re frame the meaning of win. Tell the people that we will win back control of the economy by redistributing the wealth so that it isn’t controlled by 1% of the nation - Tell them that we will win by putting the teeth back into the constitution. Tell them that we will win opportunity for our children by giving them an education that is not rated (I believe middle of the pack) in industrialized nations. Tell them that we will win by realizing that the word “union” is not a bad word but is the reason we have a middle-class today.

Read these words by FDR and weep at how true they are today.

economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital {snip}

There was no place among this royalty for our many thousands of small-businessmen and merchants who sought to make a worthy use of the American system of initiative and profit. They were no more free than the worker or the farmer. Even honest and progressive-minded men of wealth, aware of their obligation to their generation, could never know just where they fitted into this dynastic scheme of things.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property. {snip}

The hours men and women worked, the wages they received, the conditions of their labor - these had passed beyond the control of the people, and were imposed by this new industrial dictatorship. The savings of the average family, the capital of the small-businessmen, the investments set aside for old age - other people's money - these were tools which the new economic royalty used to dig itself in.
Those who tilled the soil no longer reaped the rewards which were their right. The small measure of their gains was decreed by men in distant cities.
Throughout the nation, opportunity was limited by monopoly. Individual initiative was crushed in the cogs of a great machine. The field open for free business was more and more restricted. Private enterprise, indeed, became too private. It became privileged enterprise, not free enterprise.

Do yourself a favor and read this speech - it puts fire in the belly.

http://www2.austincc.edu/lpatrick/his2341/fdr36acceptan...


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1. After the imPalin pick, doesn't it seem like a lot of Repugs are trying to help Obama?

It's almost like they're giving him advice on how to draw in moderate Repugs.

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2. One reason for Palin Pick--Bring GOPers home--They can vote

for History in their own party. First Female VP on GOP Ticket.