Heist: A Who-Done-It

Dear reader,

If you are on the fence of the Sanders/Clinton voting decision, I ask you to challenge yourself to watch (or play in the background while you work and listen) to this less than 30 minute "extended trailer" to help you decide where you stand and where you believe you should stand. To my mind, the most moving piece of it is (the author of America Beyond Capitalism) Gar Alperovitz's brief comment...watch for it...watch for it...



Vote, America. Corporations have deregulated the economy into near-complete submission and are systematically denying huge numbers of primary voters their right to vote. Double-check your voter registration status and be prepared to come out the remaining primaries, and in November, in numbers previously unimagined. Can we believe that these efforts will not quadruple in the coming general election?

Great Moments

I often promise myself not to use my blog for political commentary. Who am I to comment on the political ebbings and tidings of American politics. Wow. Did I say "ebbings and tidings?" I must have been influenced by recently viewing a YouTube video compilation of some of the best of the best from David Letterman's "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches" spot.

The answer is, of course, that I'm nobody. But I am somebody who was so impressed by Barack Obama's speech on Race and Politics in America yesterday that I have to applaud it out loud here. I'm hoping against hope that the upcoming years of our America can be characterized more by Obama's level of candor and sincerity, intellect and introspection, and genuine commitment to change than by our current leader's perhaps not so inadvertent obfuscation. Whether you are for him or against him, any effort to discount his eloquence is doomed to failure.

Hope with me.

Cheers,
Scott