Comments on: The Change Is Going To Do Me Good http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/the-change-is-going-to-do-me-good/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Phil http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/the-change-is-going-to-do-me-good/#comment-37674 Phil Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:23:33 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=6490#comment-37674 All good things, all ages overdue. Great. But let's not get carried away. This is still nothing close to Change We Can Believe In, let alone the change we really need. All good things, all ages overdue. Great. But let’s not get carried away. This is still nothing close to Change We Can Believe In, let alone the change we really need.

]]> By: The Angry Peasant http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/the-change-is-going-to-do-me-good/#comment-37631 The Angry Peasant Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:34:34 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=6490#comment-37631 Mikel, It's easy to get your hopes up, my friend, but...well, don't. Let's not forget all the crooks, lobbyists and corporate duopoly mainstays Obama's selected to run our lives for another humdiggity eight years. A few initial in-good-faith actions in his first week in office doesn't mean Obama is anything other than what we've already seen. It sounds to me like good P.R. People by and large tend to remember the first things and the final things a president does, much like remembering the lyrics to a song. The first and last lines you always remember, but damn that second verse! So five months or two years from now, after Obama has screwed working people to the wall like he's bound to, people will look back on his gracious gestures when he first took office and think he's just the bee's knees. I'm not going to fall into that trap like I did with Clinton. I just know too much now. Mikel,

It’s easy to get your hopes up, my friend, but…well, don’t. Let’s not forget all the crooks, lobbyists and corporate duopoly mainstays Obama’s selected to run our lives for another humdiggity eight years. A few initial in-good-faith actions in his first week in office doesn’t mean Obama is anything other than what we’ve already seen. It sounds to me like good P.R. People by and large tend to remember the first things and the final things a president does, much like remembering the lyrics to a song. The first and last lines you always remember, but damn that second verse! So five months or two years from now, after Obama has screwed working people to the wall like he’s bound to, people will look back on his gracious gestures when he first took office and think he’s just the bee’s knees. I’m not going to fall into that trap like I did with Clinton. I just know too much now.

]]> By: Max Shields http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/the-change-is-going-to-do-me-good/#comment-37616 Max Shields Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:21:39 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=6490#comment-37616 mikel weisser Peace activists? And the planet is? mikel weisser

Peace activists? And the planet is?

]]> By: mikel weisser http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/the-change-is-going-to-do-me-good/#comment-37614 mikel weisser Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:15:03 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=6490#comment-37614 Yes, yes, yes, to all of you who have noted the reasons to remain wary and critical of Obama and thanks for writing. I admit it; it was unusual for me to write something positive about a US president. Forgive me; i'm going to blame it on intoxication. Like tens of millions of Americans and probably additional hundreds of millions around the world, i was particularly intoxicated on Tuesday Jan. 20, 2009. It was indeed the "Mission Accomplished" with an actual mission actually accomplished; there was no flight suit cod piece either. This next week's piece intends to be about the choices of the bail-out package and their perpetuation of the status quo instead of a reshaping of the economic system which is possible and was ripe in this juncture. Obama could've sold the American public a lot of things, but he didn't. So there are plenty of reasons to be critical and i shall be. However, last week the daily count of Bush reversals coming out of the Whitehouse WAS good news and after18 something years of trying to write something entertaining about our government while being disgusted with the actions of my president, it really seemed worth the challenge to try to describe my tapping into the positive wave that was coursing around our country and all over our planet that day. While i am a professional cynic, i am not a false one. To not acknowledge that sense of positivity on that day, that profound world feeling in my written record would have been false of me personally and untrue to history, like writing in 1969 and failing to mention men on the moon. I've been doing this since 1990 and to my values, and it seems the values of you readers, I, we, have justly been unhappy with much of what we hear out of our government. Right, left, many of us are pissed and with good reason over these last 8 years for sure. Once upon a time i enjoyed a brief honeymoon with Clinton that evaporated right around the scuttling of his "thermal tax," but that was a long time ago. There is a potential strength in a country when its people can like its president as in 1930s America, but there is also potential terror as in 1930s Germany ... or for that matter 2001-2005 America. I would like to like my president. At least like the things he does that i had liked in the first place-- Blowin' in the Wind is right BTW, this militarist foreign policy opening salvo of Obama's is clear proof that peace activist work is far from done. --yzur. Yes, yes, yes, to all of you who have noted the reasons to remain wary and critical of Obama and thanks for writing. I admit it; it was unusual for me to write something positive about a US president. Forgive me; i’m going to blame it on intoxication.
Like tens of millions of Americans and probably additional hundreds of millions around the world, i was particularly intoxicated on Tuesday Jan. 20, 2009. It was indeed the “Mission Accomplished” with an actual mission actually accomplished; there was no flight suit cod piece either.
This next week’s piece intends to be about the choices of the bail-out package and their perpetuation of the status quo instead of a reshaping of the economic system which is possible and was ripe in this juncture. Obama could’ve sold the American public a lot of things, but he didn’t. So there are plenty of reasons to be critical and i shall be.
However, last week the daily count of Bush reversals coming out of the Whitehouse WAS good news and after18 something years of trying to write something entertaining about our government while being disgusted with the actions of my president, it really seemed worth the challenge to try to describe my tapping into the positive wave that was coursing around our country and all over our planet that day.
While i am a professional cynic, i am not a false one. To not acknowledge that sense of positivity on that day, that profound world feeling in my written record would have been false of me personally and untrue to history, like writing in 1969 and failing to mention men on the moon.
I’ve been doing this since 1990 and to my values, and it seems the values of you readers, I, we, have justly been unhappy with much of what we hear out of our government. Right, left, many of us are pissed and with good reason over these last 8 years for sure. Once upon a time i enjoyed a brief honeymoon with Clinton that evaporated right around the scuttling of his “thermal tax,” but that was a long time ago.
There is a potential strength in a country when its people can like its president as in 1930s America, but there is also potential terror as in 1930s Germany … or for that matter 2001-2005 America.
I would like to like my president. At least like the things he does that i had liked in the first place–
Blowin’ in the Wind is right BTW, this militarist foreign policy opening salvo of Obama’s is clear proof that peace activist work is far from done.
–yzur.

]]> By: MrCynic3 http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/the-change-is-going-to-do-me-good/#comment-37608 MrCynic3 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:23:05 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=6490#comment-37608 Mikel Weisser, Please don't call yourself a cynic because yor are not.!! It is obvious you are seeing what you were looking for and not what is actually out there. There will be no change in Washington D.C. and business will be as usual there. Just look at obama choices for his cabinet. He picked the same people who got us in this mess to start with. Does gate for the defense Dept. look like a change for you??!!. Does Summer , Rubin and Geithner who engineered the deregulation of Wall St. that paved the way for the current economic debackle look like a change to you. These are the same people who got us in the current economic debackle. Does H. Clinton sound like a change to you. All you are getting is good oratory and make belief bull-shitting like closing Gitmo and keeping secret renditions and secret prison and not saying anything about trials for its inmates according to due process!!?? Please stop your wishful thinking. Mikel Weisser,

Please don’t call yourself a cynic because yor are not.!!
It is obvious you are seeing what you were looking for and not
what is actually out there.
There will be no change in Washington D.C. and business will be as
usual there.
Just look at obama choices for his cabinet. He picked the same people
who got us in this mess to start with.
Does gate for the defense Dept. look like a change for you??!!.
Does Summer , Rubin and Geithner who engineered the deregulation
of Wall St. that paved the way for the current economic debackle
look like a change to you. These are the same people who got us in the current economic debackle.
Does H. Clinton sound like a change to you.
All you are getting is good oratory and make belief bull-shitting like
closing Gitmo and keeping secret renditions and secret prison and not
saying anything about trials for its inmates according to due process!!??
Please stop your wishful thinking.

]]> By: blowin' in the wind http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/the-change-is-going-to-do-me-good/#comment-37562 blowin' in the wind Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:48:10 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=6490#comment-37562 Well, Americans do repentence better than Mary Magdalene. In fact they do repentence precisely like Mary Masgdalene. But you've got to hold this guy's feet to the fire starting with a no to the destabilization of Pakistan and the liquidation of the Gazan ghetto. More prophetic witness, less restored virginity! Well, Americans do repentence better than Mary Magdalene. In fact they do repentence precisely like Mary Masgdalene. But you’ve got to hold this guy’s feet to the fire starting with a no to the destabilization of Pakistan and the liquidation of the Gazan ghetto. More prophetic witness, less restored virginity!

]]> By: bozh http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/the-change-is-going-to-do-me-good/#comment-37532 bozh Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:01:48 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=6490#comment-37532 i used to believe i was the stupidest person on earth; then i run into bush; it made my day. thnx i used to believe i was the stupidest person on earth; then i run into bush; it made my day. thnx

]]> By: RG the LG http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/the-change-is-going-to-do-me-good/#comment-37509 RG the LG Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:24:15 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=6490#comment-37509 Oh fiddle-dee-dee! The change may do some of us some good. But, if all that is REALLY nothing more than a return to the status quo ante, then what? O'Bama (our Irish President) has made it clear that the Empire will continue to support our surrogates (Israel) ... and that imperial wars are going to continue (Afghanistan) ... his economic policies are designed NOT to make changes, but rather to avoid collapse of an entirely corrupt system. What we really need is a REAL depression ... one that will bring the elites down to the level of the $2 a day worker who makes the clothes on your (and my) back! Now THAT would be change I could live with. RG the LG Oh fiddle-dee-dee!

The change may do some of us some good. But, if all that is REALLY nothing more than a return to the status quo ante, then what?

O’Bama (our Irish President) has made it clear that the Empire will continue to support our surrogates (Israel) … and that imperial wars are going to continue (Afghanistan) … his economic policies are designed NOT to make changes, but rather to avoid collapse of an entirely corrupt system.

What we really need is a REAL depression … one that will bring the elites down to the level of the $2 a day worker who makes the clothes on your (and my) back!

Now THAT would be change I could live with.

RG the LG

]]> By: bozh http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/the-change-is-going-to-do-me-good/#comment-37501 bozh Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:20:36 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=6490#comment-37501 one cld have vaticinated that the world plutos wld restrict freedoms, lower wages, and even wage wars once the planet gets poorer. and the planet, the source of all our wealth, was never shared equally. it may never be shared equally; even peace/safety/security of some nations won't be the same quallity as of the some other lands'. in this, maintainance of terror for some lands and keeping the working class dwn, world plutos are united like never before against their enemies. already many laws are evanescing/shifting; crimes by nations are lauded; plutos protected by large terrorist org'ns; nationalism going the way of the dodo bird, etcetc. yet the life on earth will end one day; it is an ergodic event; i.e., has zero chance of not occuring. thanx one cld have vaticinated that the world plutos wld restrict freedoms, lower wages, and even wage wars once the planet gets poorer.
and the planet, the source of all our wealth, was never shared equally.
it may never be shared equally; even peace/safety/security of some nations won’t be the same quallity as of the some other lands’.

in this, maintainance of terror for some lands and keeping the working class dwn, world plutos are united like never before against their enemies.

already many laws are evanescing/shifting; crimes by nations are lauded; plutos protected by large terrorist org’ns; nationalism going the way of the dodo bird, etcetc.
yet the life on earth will end one day; it is an ergodic event; i.e., has zero chance of not occuring. thanx

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