cross posted from Acronym TV

Dear President Obama,

Congratulations on your electoral victory.

In defeating the grandfatherly Ken doll with the heart of a blood sucking vampire squid and his religiously radical running mate who claimed that a child conceived in the act of rape is a blessing from God, you might not want to gloat too much. To use a sports analogy, you did not so much win as the other guy lost. Even so, you never in your entire life have to run for public office again. What a weight off of your shoulders that must be!

So forgive me for being obtuse, but now that you have nothing to lose, why do you –- in the guise of this Grand Bargain you are talking about — want to author a plan that will gut social security, Medicare, and unemployment benefits while simultaneously protecting corporate welfare? That hardly seems like a bargain; that seems more like theft.

If you ditch this grand bargain idea of yours and adopt some of the principles outlined in the extraordinary document entitled The 99%’s Deficit Proposal, you will expose just how little our elected officials serve our interests. You will enjoy a popular support like never before — and even if you make a few enemies with the Wall Street crowd, who cares? Remember, you never have to run for office again.

Ditch The Grand Bargain and commence with Operation Trojan Horse!

• On taxes: A tax of ½ percent on the sale of stocks bonds and derivate, is much less than the tax we pay on underwear, and yet this speculation tax would raise about $800 billion over the next decade. Want to add a trillion to that? Tax capitol gains at the same rates as income? Why should the profits from stocks that Mitt and Ann had to sell just to scrape by in college be taxed at a lower rate than the guy working construction to get himself through college?

• On Social Security:  We can have a fully funded social security for its 75-year planning period if we removed the outdated cap on wages subject to the social security tax of $107,000.  Tax all wages and social security is fully funded. No bargain. No debate. You’re welcome.

• On Medicare and Medicare: Dude, you don’t want to go down in history as undoing Medicare, do you? How about we cut the waste in Medicare and Medicaid. The for-profit middle man health insurance industry has created a pervasive culture of -– as Ralph Nader points out — over diagnosed, over-treated and erroneous or unnecessary procedures that come with a price tag in the hundreds of billions of dollars per year.

A single-payer, full Medicare for all system would cut present administrative costs in half. Canada’s system, which allows patients to freely choose their doctor and hospital, covers everyone for half of the $9000 per capita that Americans will pay this year. Our system leaves 50 million people uncovered of whom 45,000 will die this year alone due to lack of coverage, according to a peer-reviewed study by Harvard Medical School researchers.

You supported single-payer, President Obama, before your meteoric ride through the corrupted electoral process. But you’re done with that now. No more elections. So ditch your grand bargain and lead us to a grand new deal: one that reverses the decades long upward re-distribution of wealth. Don’t bargain with the elites who want to take away food stamps from 47 million Americans, and drive even more than the into poverty — a group that now numbers 30% of Americans now and yet shockingly, was not courted at all in the election cycle.

The effect of your Grand Austerity bargain will be this: more and more people will realize that graphs showing the wealth divide will continue to widen, their debt load will continue to grow and once the American Dream is revealed as a hoax, our streets will look like those of Spain, Greece, or worse. While I know you have a rainy day plan for this potential outcome in the form of a hyper-militarized police force and constitution busting laws like the NDAA in place, I don’t want to believe that that is part of your grand bargain.

There has been a class war going on in this country for decades, waged by the elite against the rest of us.

Now that you no longer have to raise money from those blood sucking vampire squids ever again, we are asking, President Obama, which side are you on?

Dear Senator Kerry:

I am writing to ask that you speak a public truth: that the 2004 Presidential Election was stolen. I request, Senator, that you speak this truth out loud in public before the 2012 election. I’m inspired to write you this open letter after reading the words of David Swanson, who wrote on this subject recently:

“If anything disgusts me more than the false charade of democracy distracting most of my fellow citizens from the struggle to develop actual democracy, it is death bed confessions.  I don’t want to ever hear one from John Kerry.  I hope that he may live many more years.  But when he dies, I don’t want to hear any Robert McNamara-like truth telling spilling out of his horse like face.  I want to hear it now, this week, prior to the 2012 election.  I want it out there preemptively.  I want people prepared to look for election fraud.  And I want candidates prepared to point to it if it appears, big as life, staring us all in the face as it did eight years ago.”

Why speak out about 2004 now? Because there is growing evidence that Mitt Romney is planning a Bush –Cheney like power grab by defrauding voters and stealing the election. As Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman report:

“Despite an almost total blackout from the corporate media, the Romney family has a personal ownership (through the investment firms Solamere and H.I.G. Capital) in Hart Intercivic, which owns, maintains, programs and will tabulate alleged votes on machines in the critical swing states of Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Colorado. Despite various official disclaimers, the election could be decided on Hart machines producing ‘vote counts’ with little connection to how 18 million people actually voted.  It is inconceivable that the Romney chain of ownership in Hart Intercivic will not influence how that goes. …  [T]here is no legally binding way by which a professionally rigged electronic vote count can be overturned or even definitively discovered except through the use of unabridged but legally inconsequential exit polling.  Scytl, a Barcelona-based e-voting company, has been contracted to count votes in 26 states through the easily rigged Federal Overseas Voting Program. FVAP is ostensibly geared to let military and other overseas Americans vote absentee by electronic means. But Scytl is positioned to intercept and redistribute such overseas electronic votes as needed through its spyware sister company, CarrierIQ. In a close race, these ‘votes’ can be distributed at will to make the difference in critical swing states.  Other key voting machine companies, such as ES&S, Dominion, Command Central and more, are controlled by major corporations, some of whose owners are outspoken in their support for the Republican Party. … Republicans hold the governorships in the nine critical swing states of Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, New Mexico and Arizona. They also hold the secretaries of state offices in all of those states but Wisconsin. Electronically flipping the vote count in any or all of them, with Hart Intercivic, Scytl, Dominion or other technologies, can be done quickly, simply and invisibly, with no public recourse.”

For most people the idea that elections could be stolen here in the United States, a place we like to think of as the beacon of freedom and democracy for the rest of the world is purely relegated to the world of koo-koo banana tin foil hat conspiracy theory territory.  However, as you well know, in 2004 the votes of 300,000 Ohio residents were flipped in the dead of night. A 4% Kerry lead turned into a 2% Bush victory.

Senator Kerry, you should know that I did not vote for you when you ran for president in 2004, I voted for Ralph Nader.

Now don’t let that cloud your judgment. And don’t feed me that “Ralph Nader is the reason Bush –Cheney won in 2000 and the whole world went on the fast track to the end of times argument.” Ralph Nader did not take my vote- or anyone’s vote away from Al Gore, in 2000. Ralph Nader earned my vote. And Al Gore, as charming as his Saturday Night appearances were, never earned it. But that is beside the point, isn’t it?

Because the 2000 election was stolen. No one should know that better you Senator Kerry, because in 2004, the election was stolen from you. What is it, exactly, that is keeping you from telling the world what you told investigative journalist Marc Crispin Miller back in 2005, that you knew the 2004 election was stolen from you? Is your silence and acquiescence now part of what makes you a “good Democrat”?

As you well know, by 2000 the Democrats and the Republicans had already conspired to squelch debate and consolidate power. After the League of Women voters allowed Ross Perot on the debate stage (remember Ross Perot?) –the duopoly that you fully embrace and protect entered into a Faustian bargain with the Commission on Presidential Debates – and so now independent and third party candidates don’t get heard, real issues don’t get addressed, and the American Empire is now engaged in spending its final chapters upholding the façade of democracy, liberty and freedom.

Senator Kerry, you have had a long career. You lack not for material wealth. Do the right thing. Tell us your story – before the 2012 election- of how the 2004 election was stolen.  You could choose silence on this matter and prove something far worse: that you are protecting a system that props up a United States that is as interested in preserving, advancing and championing democracy as Hitler was interested in preserving, advancing and championing Hanukkah.

The state of the Union is like the Super Bowl for political junkies, and in this, a presidential election year, it drew a high percentages of viewers whose blood pressure does not rise and fall with the results of the latest Rasmussen poll because they have better things to do than spend the rest of their year combing through the blogosphere searching for inaccuracies, redundancies and conspiracies.

It is for that audience then, that I created the following list: The top 10 sub textual Themes in Obama’s 2012 State of the Union. Remember, these are things that you will NOT hear spoken, or read in any transcript, but these are the sub textual messages between the lines that came clearly out of President Obama’s mouth:

How far could $144 Billion go towards addressing some of the problems we address today? A report released this morning from The New Bottom Line entitled “Pulling Back the Curtain: Exposing the 1% Behind the 2011 Big Bank Bonuses suggests that with less than 1/2 of $144 Billion (the sum total of salary and bonuses paid out by the nations top 6 banks in 2011) could eliminate all underwater mortgages.