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really need to studied closely for fascist/corporate spin, twist and manipulation, and the crap they are spewing made conscious, cuz they'll frackin poison your mind otherwise, with messages like YOU don't count, only the BIG DONORS count...
Follow the bouncing ball (in boldface): (= YOU don't count...) (also, = predictions that leave out the People; things as they will surely be, because that's the corporate rulers pre-written narrative...)
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"Top fundraisers for Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have begun private talks aimed at merging the two candidates' teams, not waiting for the Democratic nominating process to end before they start preparations for a hard-fought fall campaign. Despite Obama's apparently insurmountable lead in delegates needed to claim the nomination, aides to both candidates are resigned to the idea that the Democratic contest will continue at least through June 3, when Montana and South Dakota will cast the final votes of the primary season.
But in small gatherings around Washington and in planning sessions for party unity events in New York and Boston in coming weeks, fundraisers and surrogates from both camps are discussing how they can put aside the vitriol of the past 18 months and ("how they can") move forward to ensure that the eventual nominee has the resources to defeat Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in November....
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Even with the work in top levels of the party to broker a detente between Obama and Clinton donors, both sides acknowledge there is much still to be done. Top fundraisers have invested not only their time and money but also their emotions in the primary battle. Major financial backers say the tensions have been particularly acute in recent weeks as frustrations have mounted in both camps....
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Last week, the Democratic National Committee announced that both campaigns had signed a "joint fundraising agreement" creating a fund in which donations to each candidate could be pooled with contributions to the party and then used during the general election....
In addition to the fledgling attempts to merge the fundraising operations of Obama and Clinton, there is growing talk that the best -- and perhaps only -- way to truly mend the rift is for Obama to pick a top Clinton surrogate as his vice presidential nominee. "There's gale-force pressure for Obama to choose a Clinton loyalist as a running mate to heal the party but avoid putting her and her formidable baggage on the ticket," said one Obama ally in Washington. "You hear the names (Ohio Gov. Ted) Strickland, (Indiana Sen. Evan) Bayh, and (retired General) Wes Clark almost constantly, and it's no secret that Jim Johnson and Tom Daschle are purveyors of that wisdom."
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The message of this article is "Fuck you!" to the American People--"We still control everything--us and the BIG DONORS 'gathering in small groups' in Washington." I sense Beltway hysteria at the Washington Post. They can't control this amazing citizen activist movement that has arisen around the Obama campaign and that has replaced THEIR pick for our Democratic Party nominee with an insurgent who will, to a much greater extent than would be the case with their pick, be beholden to THE PEOPLE.
The REAL story of the Obama campaign is absent from this article. It is YOUR story. It is the story of SMALL DONORS beating a big, rich peoples' money machine, and of millions of people rallying to a Peoples' candidate, many of them because they have nowhere else to go--there is no one left standing who OPPOSED THIS GODDAMNED WAR. SEVENTY PERCENT of the American people oppose this war, and the Beltway establishment not only shoved this war down our throats, they have been STONE DEAF to our demands to end it. So they will give you no credit. They hate you. They don't want rule by the People. They despise democracy. They want rule by global corporate predators. And they figure that, once the thing gets back into their clutches, inside the Beltway, they can control it, keep the war profiteers fat, maintain the Iraq "occupation" (war) to protect the oil contracts, maybe grab Venezuela's and Ecuador's oil by toppling their democratic governments, and consolidate their enormous gains under the Bush Junta.
One of their ways of maintaining control will likely be to shave Obama's mandate, using a combo of the Bushite-corporate controlled "trade secret" voting machines, and other techniques like Bushite voter purges, and non-stop corporate propaganda and manipulation. That's why they predict "a hard-fought campaign." Obama should wipe the sidewalk with McCain. The man is missing many brain cells. He has trouble putting simple declarative sentences together. He can't think on his feet. He's almost as bad as Bush. But...somehow...it's going to be close ("hard-fought"). So says the Washington Post's crystal ball.
All decisions will be made by "BIG DONORS" and "TOP FUNDRAISERS" in "SMALL" (elite, don't include you) "GATHERINGS" in Washington DC. Got that? And you will pay Hillary's debt through a "joint fund." And you will swallow a Hillary "surrogate" on the ticket. And you will shut up.
I am not against solutions, workable compromises, grass roots workers cooperating with each other, and all people having a voice in our party and our democracy. I am not against party leaders talking things out, and reaching decisions, after they've heard everyone. But this artificial "bitterness" that the corporate crapnews has narrated is mostly illusion. A tough campaign like this one has been a GOOD campaign. This is what democracy looks like--in case anyone had forgotten, or is too young to remember. Study up on the vitriol thrown at Thomas Jefferson in his campaigns for president, and at FDR, and at JFK (vicious anti-Catholicism). It's par for the course. There is no special "bitterness." This is politics. And this was furthermore a great campaign because really important principles were at issue, about our country's warmongering, about our policy in oil-rich South America, and about who is going to control this party--the people or the big donors and big bosses.
Whatever happens from this point on, the rebirth of democracy that has occurred in this primary fight is the BEST THING that has ever happened in American political life, in over half a century, and possibly in our entire history.
We must NEVER let these jerks at the Washington Post and their war profiteer buddies and their corporate puppetmasters disempower us again--like they are trying to do, in this typical article dripping with disempowering messages. Never, ever, ever again. Make it conscious. Fight it! The BIG DONORS have been DEFEATED...by YOU. By the grass roots. By the People. By our MILLION donations. YOU are calling the shots, at long last. The American People are back! And they are sweating this at the Washington Post. Believe me. Their fear couldn't be more apparent. And they are conniving to get YOU, the people, the grass roots, the voters, out of the power equation again. That is why YOU are NOT in this article.
Hillary supporters, please know that none of what I have said here is meant to dis your campaign work or your judgment of the candidates. Your activism has been magnificent. You made it a contest. You helped give us a fully vetted, fully tested, "been through the fire" candidate for November. All your work and support for Hillary Clinton helped us all to SEE the candidates better, and to understand our own party and our national political establishment much, much better. A primary campaign should be an education. It should help identify and hone policies. It is best when it includes sharp differences, and intelligent advocates. It should build organization. By your advocacy, you have done all this and more. I am not talking about YOU, for instance, when I say that Clinton is the WaPo's choice, and Obama's is the People's choice. I am just as angry at their leaving YOU out of this Beltway power trip, as I am at their leaving Obama's supporters out. Together with Obama supporters, you have shown the Republican Party up for what it is: an empty sack. WE had a real political contest. What did THEY have?
Let us all work now to re-establish the first principle of our democracy, the one that the Washington Post leaves out: rule of, by and for the People.
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