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July 22, 2008 at 08:44:55

Obama Needs to Hammer Recent Disastrous Economic Decline and Foreign Policy Failures in Bush/Cheney Years

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I am truly reluctant to be so presumptuous as to tell Obama some ideas on how to improve his campaign. This is a guy who only 4 years ago gave a rousing speech at the Democratic Convention, starting at that point to turn the Democratic party on its ear, kind of reminiscent to a student of history like me of the way Gandhi turned the British Empire on it is ear, and back in touch with the real people, its traditional base.

Money raising is far from my interests in Presidential Politics, but hey, this is still America, so therefore, I must note that Obama has raised more money than any candidate in American History. So it might seem like arm chair politics or Monday morning football for anyone to offer any advice or to suggest changing the course or changing the tack might be in order, so that above all he doesn't lose the idealistic and ideological base of his appeal and his power.

[The AP reports that Barack Obama reversed a two-month downward trend by raising more and spending less. He took in $52 million in June, more than twice the nearly $21.5 million raised by John McCain. Obama had $72 million cash on hand to McCain's $27 million.

The Politico points out that Obama raised $25 million on the last day of June alone; his one-day haul represents nearly half of his monthly total and more than Republican rival John McCain generated for the entire month. During the month, McCain did not have a single day in which he raised a million dollars.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/21/june-campaign-finance-
num_n_113991.html]

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Having said all of that, let me offer some strong advice, and I hope the 300 foreign affairs policy advisors, the pundits, and the professional political arm chairs and Monday morning quarterbarcks don't leap to any conclusions beyond the obvious, which is that I want Obama to win, and then I want to see him overhaul the USA's Foreign Policy and its entire image at the core of 7 billion peoples' thinking. This is decades over due, and really a dire situation internationally. I try to make this major point as humbly as possible:

OBAMA REALLY NEEDS TO HAMMER WHAT BUSH AND CHENEY HAVE DONE TO THE U.S. ECONOMY FOR THE PAST 8 YEARS, BY DUMPING SO MANY BILLIONS IN WAR. ONE LEVEL OF GOOD GOVERNMENT IS HOW YOU CHANNEL THE MONEY, AND THEY HAVE FAILLED REALLY BADLY. WE MAY BE TOO LATE AND TOO FAR INTO THE LAST STAGES OF IMPERIALISM.

If that sounds too Marxist, too bad. Marxian economic analysis is at the very core of the most successful historians and politicians, as a historical tool in determining what we are doing wrong, the downward spiral we are on in terms of the collapse of most of post World War II society. In Hegel and Marx's theories, this is simply called DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM.

And our brave military firing US missiles into not one, but a series of Afghanistan wedding parties, and within two more weeks, breaking into a home in Iraq a few days ago, and WHILE HE SLEPT: this is a disaster, not just "collateral damage."

These kinds of things are happening repeatedly, and they make all Americans very ugly indeed, as Ugly as we have actually become, or as ugly as Halliburton, Brown and Root, and Blackwater have made us in the eyes of billions of people, for their ghastly excesses in Iraq and for the many mistakes by the military in Afghanistan.

The support for Obama's Timetable in Iraq from the Iraqi President Maliki, even if he is kind of US Puppet, rather than for Bush's vagueness: that is real progress, make no mistake.

Seeing Obama walking with Afghani President Karzai: he proved one obvious point: he has Presidential carriage, demeanor, and style.

This is urgent. This is long overdue. This is mandatory, not only for Americans, but for the rest of the entire world to further realize that Obama is a straightshooter, honest, and solutionary. To not do so is to miss both the greatest opportunity and the most serious challenge any USA President has ever had.

The speech in Berlin might be the best place to start doing this, but even after: it will never be too late to take this course of action I am here proscribing!

Stephen Fox, Managing Editor, Santa Fe Sun News

stephen@santafefineart.com

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In 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694] In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate In his capacity as Contributing Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox recently interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev He has been adamant and resourceful about exposing the charlatans of the sometimes-organic food movement. Take the time to read this press release concerning California Attorney General Jerry Brown's suits against Whole Foods, Avalon, and others, for either knowingly or negligently adding a deadly carcinogen to their body care products and soap, as in Whole Foods 365 Label products: http://www.prlog.org/10079593 He cordially invites all Op Ed News readers to visit New Mexico in 2008!

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I am a teacher who lives in NYC. I think Hillary is the same as Bush. I am interesting in CIA connections to leftliberal publications like Encounter Magazine as described by the british journalism Frances Stonor Saunders in her book
The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the world of arts and letters.
Nathaniel HeidenheimerI am a teacher who lives in NYC. I think Hillary is the same as Bush. I am interesting in CIA connections to leftliberal publications like Encounter Magazine as described by the british journalism Frances Stonor Saunders in her book
The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the world of arts and letters.

False Hope

The worst President in American history and we need to remind Obombem how to go on the offensive? Speaks volumes. Democrats are paid to be a fake opposition party. False hope is counterproductive if it prevents you from taking the next step.

by Nathaniel Heidenheimer (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 45 comments) on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 9:15:33 AM

Mike Folkerth is the author of "The Biggest Lie Ever Believed" and is not your run-of-the-mill author of finance and economics.

The former real estate broker, developer, private real estate fund manager, auctioneer, Alaskan bush pilot, restaurateur, U.S. Navy veteran, heavy equipment operator, taxi cab driver, fishing guide, horse packer and few jobs too embarrassing to mention, writes from experience and plain common sense.

Mike’s humorous systems of “Mikeronomics” ...

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Mike FolkerthMike Folkerth is the author of "The Biggest Lie Ever Believed" and is not your run-of-the-mill author of finance and economics.

The former real estate broker, developer, private real estate fund manager, auctioneer, Alaskan bush pilot, restaurateur, U.S. Navy veteran, heavy equipment operator, taxi cab driver, fishing guide, horse packer and few jobs too embarrassing to mention, writes from experience and plain common sense.

Mike’s humorous systems of “Mikeronomics” ...

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There is a

danger in pointing out the failures of others, in that one has to have a viable economic plan that will change the current conditions; Obama doesn't.

I'll quickly say that McCain doesn't either.

Obama has a shallow grasp of the magnitude of the economic trouble that America is really in.

On the war front, he has just announced that we need to send many more troops to Afghanistan...more war.

Neither of our presidential contenders will bring the U.S. economy back, they are clueless in that respect. Both promise growth, yet growth is the root problem. Growth takes resources that we don't have.

As they say at the ballpark, "It's gonna be a long season."

by Mike Folkerth (120 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 566 comments) on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 9:33:35 AM

Eliot Gould , 52, is currently active in New Mexico's political scene. A native of Chicago,and active in Chicago politics,Gould studied the Presidency at Center for the Study of the Presidency, with extensive writings upon Lincoln and Wilson.
Eliot GouldEliot Gould , 52, is currently active in New Mexico's political scene. A native of Chicago,and active in Chicago politics,Gould studied the Presidency at Center for the Study of the Presidency, with extensive writings upon Lincoln and Wilson.

Economy is shambles, War continues, and Mediocrity is set

As he now appeals to the 'great silent majority" the vision has to be presented. that is the call of leadership. An economy that builds for people and propsperity, not artificially in a consumed governmental spend--that touches no one but bears breath of death and destruction.

That pandering without principle is a certain doom to the campiagn--If we as a nation chose mediocrity as leadership, there will be a turn to McCain. He is after all white. And a sizable minority belive Lincoln was never their President and will never vote for a black man. To appeal to them is absurd.

by Eliot Gould (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 21 diaries, 99 comments) on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 10:40:24 AM

In 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694]

In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate ...

to see more of bio, click on member name
Stephen FoxIn 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694]

In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate ...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Interesting comments, my reply

As to the first one, from Nathaniel:

I think what is really happening is that he has not yet gotten into high gear, and that letters from people like you and articles like mine, will help him do so. Think about the amount of ground that guy has covered thus far. Astonishing....he has to tread a bit carefully, and circumspectly, or the media pundits will jump all over it, more than they already do, like they did with Howard Dean's so called "scream" in Iowa. What a bunch of easily manipulated jerks we Americans really are, to tolerate such media manipulation!

Mike saying both candidates are clueless? Maybe publish more articles, Mike, with your sterling solutions, whatever they are, and hammer both candidates staff with them? That would be interesting to see what comes back!

Gould says 16% of the US are bigots, so why try for them in the first place. Tactically, that makes a lot of sense. Really it does.

by Stephen Fox (62 articles, 2 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 225 comments) on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 10:51:18 AM

Stephen

I have written more than 100 articles for Op-Ed, I have a published book, I do national talk radio and also public speaking on the subject of U.S. economics.

All attempts that I have made to directly influence politicians fall on deaf ears. America needs growth to continue our ill thought economic policies and both McCain and Obama promise that growth. Yet, we find ourselves importing more than 70% of the energy necessary to hold life and limb together, let alone the exponential growth necessary to keep this country from sinking like a rock.

When Obama recognizes that we live on a finite planet and that we cannot continue to grow as a solution to our problems, I'll move over to his side. But I'm not holding my breath.

Please see my article "How Soon We Forget" under today's Op-Ed column.

by Mike Folkerth (120 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 566 comments) on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 12:03:49 PM

Darren Wolfe is the former Eastern Vice Chair of the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania. He grew up in Puerto Rico and lived in Venezuela for seven years, including the first year of Chavez' rule. His articles have appeared in OpEdNews.com, the Libertarian Penn, and the Nolanchart.com. News services such as the New York Post.com and Rational Review have published links to his work.

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Darren WolfeDarren Wolfe is the former Eastern Vice Chair of the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania. He grew up in Puerto Rico and lived in Venezuela for seven years, including the first year of Chavez' rule. His articles have appeared in OpEdNews.com, the Libertarian Penn, and the Nolanchart.com. News services such as the New York Post.com and Rational Review have published links to his work.

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I hear the Who

Meet the new boss, same a the old boss.

The next prez, McBama, isn't going to reform anything. We'll still be the same old USSA that we've been for too long. When these guys are ready to do things like end the income tax & abolish the IRS. Do away with the central bank. End the empire. Then I'll be impressed. Until then, yyyyaaaawwwwnnnn.

by Darren Wolfe (5 articles, 151 quicklinks, 92 diaries, 689 comments) on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 1:05:43 PM

In 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694]

In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate ...

to see more of bio, click on member name
Stephen FoxIn 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694]

In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate ...

to see more of bio, click on member name

REPLY TO THE SKEPTICS

Mike: If you published a strong piece on the editorial page of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, or even at Huffington Post, where our illustrious colleague Rob Kall, Founder of OpedNews, has been publishing, don't you think that you would have the impact for economic theory that your writing deserves?

by Stephen Fox (62 articles, 2 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 225 comments) on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 9:24:34 PM