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My email address is ErikOD@aol.com. My blog is All That Arises, to be found at allthatarises.blogspot.com.
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I'm a writer, living in Santa Barbara, CA. Formerly a lawyer, but now recovered. I suppose you'd say I'm a Lefty, but I'm not crazy about labels. I'm grossly disappointed in the state of American politics, American capitalism and consumerism; indeed, the state of America's place on the planet. I'm an intensely disaffected Obama supporter, having worked for his election for months, including traveling to a neighboring state to knock on doors on his behalf, only to look around the world two years later to find two ongoing wars, secret prisons, grinding poverty and injustice both in American and abroad. In other words, the same old state of affairs that I thought--really believed--would change with Obama's election and the election of a majority of Democrats in both houses of Congress. Now I see that I was tricked, taken in by the fine phrases of Obama and his handlers.

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(49 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 29, 2010
From a "whining Progressive" To Obama, Biden and Gibbs: I'll work for change when and if you do.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 12, 2010
Obama is "one and done," so now what? Now that we realize Obama's going to be a one-term president, what's it to be, my fellow progressives? Two more years of frustration--or biting the bullet?
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Bumperstickers and the DOV ("Disaffected Obama Voters" movement) Proposed bumper-stickers and a proposed DOV movement for "Disaffected Obama Voters" et al.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 6, 2010
Why no "bread riots" in America? One wonders why Americans remain silent while their leaders wreck their nation.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Obama's SOTU Address: Wake Me When it's Over My reaction to the SOTU: A waste of airwaves and cablefeed.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 1, 2011
When I learned PoliSci in my youth, the Right in Congress behaved with couth A ditty about civility
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 13, 2010
A ditty about responsibility A patch of doggerel about America's current plight, and who's to blame for it.

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