Likewise the military. Obama's magic moment was when he "evaluated" escalating the war in Afghanistan.
Despite weeks of deliberations, he met only with "experts" in suits and
uniforms. He never talked with his once-ardent and hopeful supporters
in the movements for peace, justice and environmental preservation.
Now we read, from Bob Woodward and others, that the generals refused to
even provide the President with the exit strategy he requested.
Who is running this country? The civilians or the military?
Obama's decision to escalate drained his supporters of hope and trust.
And it robbed us all of the budgetary options essential to rebuilding
our economy and employment picture.
The Democrats have stumbled into the mid-term elections void of a vision
that can excite our nation with real hope for an economic turn-around.
Restoring solar power to the White House may be the first tiny step
toward the green-powered future necessary to our survival.
Next must come the definitive turn away from the failure of atomic
power. Imagine what a magnificent green-powered Earth we might inhabit
had we not squandered all those billions on that profoundly dangerous,
disastrously expensive technology.
And then we need a full, comprehensive and fearless national evaluation
of the gargantuan military budget that is draining our nation of its
moral and fiscal core. Imagine what Obama's Nobel Prize speech---and
mid-term election prospects--- might resemble if he had begun that
process instead of caving in to the military in Aghanistan, now such a
clear failure.
We've been three decades fighting to get those solar panels restored to
the White House roof. It finally appears we may have won that one.
Now comes the nuclear-military madness.
It's a big mountain to climb---but so was electing this guy in the first place.
Our survival depends on it....so let the light shine in!!!
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Harvey Wasserman's SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH is at www.solartopia.org, as is Pete Seeger's "Song for Solartopia".
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