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In his opinion piece for McClatchy Friday, Joe Galloway pulls no punches in calling out the despicable behavior by the McCain-Palin campaign and provides some advice about what it is going to take for our country to recover from eight years of Bush disasters.
They and their forces of darkness falsely claim that he’s a Muslim at the same time they attack him for belonging to a Christian church whose black minister aimed angry sermons at white America.
They have presided for the last eight years over a stunning redistribution of wealth: They’ve turned Robin Hood upside down, taking from the poor and the middle class and giving to the very rich.
Yet they tar their opponent for daring to suggest that it’s time to turn the tables and redirect some of that wealth to those who are jobless, homeless and hopeless, and to the millions of other hard-working Americans who are likely to join those growing ranks in the months and years to come.
They call him a socialist for embracing a principle that’s rooted deeply in the teachings of the Christianity that they wear on their sleeves but cannot find room for in their hearts.
Galloway provides a prediction for the election:
Here’s a prediction for you, for them: McCain and Palin will go down to defeat by 15 to 20 points, and they’ll take a heap of Republicans down with them.
Of course, all will not be easy in the coming years:
Hard work, sacrifice and suffering lie ahead. It could take a decade or more to repair all the damage that Bush, Dick Cheney and all their henchmen in prison, out of prison and on their way to prison have done to our economy, our military, our standing in the world, our Constitution and to civil discourse, common decency and competent governance.
In the meantime, we Americans would do well to try to remember all those things that our grandmothers told us about how to get by in hard times.
How to get by on a lot less.
How to grow a vegetable garden.
Galloway finishes by saying that we just might be at a historical turning point:
Someday we may be able to tell our grandchildren about the Election of ’08 when we, the people, turned away from anger, hate and greed and once again embraced the better angels of our nature.
It’s up to each of us to make sure that Galloway is right. What have you done to help embrace the better angels of our nature?
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goosebumps jim, nicely done
Thank you, Jim. I opened DIGG for this article.
I appreciate all of your posts and your courage in expressing your views of the world as you see it.
He could have added that the US turned away fascism at the last possible second.
Jim, you now have 7 DIGGS on this. I wish they would fix that box up by your article.
For others, Joe Galloway has been a consistent critic of the Bush administration and is the ‘military affairs’ editor for McClatchy.
He’s been writing this way for years now.
Thanks for all the kind comments. Joe Galloway is a true American treasure.
When Obama wins,will we see the MSM give a voice to people like Joe?
Can you imagine that? The news as it really is and not the lies that the Republicans shovel out and the MSM repeats?
I think it’s already starting. After all, Rachel Maddow now has her own show and her ratings are through the roof. There really is no reason not to have more of this. [Krugman’s Nobel Prize doesn’t hurt in this, either.]