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cpklapper.
A lot has already been said, so all I'll say is 'clap.clap' for your fine lyrics.
posted by
anib
on October 22, 2009 at 11:03 PM
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I agree that it is scary. People are afraid to open their eyes as we all want to be happy in life, but how many of us are?
posted by
Original_Influence
on October 21, 2009 at 7:40 PM
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its scary how true that is. when will people open their eyes??
posted by
RomaKay
on October 19, 2009 at 10:37 AM
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Re: Quite clever, and true
Thanks,
blu3dog , and it even
scans!
posted by
cpklapper
on October 16, 2009 at 11:27 AM
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Re: cpklapper
Thank you,
Tzippy , for your supportive comments and for being by my side.
posted by
cpklapper
on October 16, 2009 at 11:06 AM
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Quite clever, and true
Well done. I especially like the part about paying your party dues.
Be well,
-blu3dog
posted by
blu3dog
on October 16, 2009 at 10:23 AM
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cpklapper
I did enjoy reading your poem, saw the posting in the blogit cafe :) see not a ghost town!
I must say I have much respect for those who dare to speak out these days it is in fact a dangerous mission, and you are brave enough to take it. What will you do when hail obama will be chanted in the halls of universitys and high schools?
Obama's popularity SEEMS to be diminishing, but I would be careful for if you oppose the BIG Obama you are now automatically a racist. I am by your side, and my writings will reflect it more and more :)
posted by
Tzippy
on October 15, 2009 at 6:43 PM
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Re: cpk, your title says it all: "Hail to the Big"..but I think from what we
Thanks,
Rumor. Obama has been overblown to the point of bursting. Politically, I have seen him as a "Corpo", through and through, i.e. more Mussolini than anything else. My response is, as is my wont, populist. The "liberal" and "conservative" labels do not really apply. There is something more insidious involved, even before the election where I had people telling me that they were voting for Obama
because he was the most intelligent person they knew. If that were my criteria, I don't think I would have voted for any of the candidates for President, ever! Yet, many believed that and were ready to not only elect him into office, but check their brains in for the duration and do his bidding. I have very serious problems with this and every American should because it it strikes at the very heart and soul of our Republic. The root of the matter is this: is our President a servant of the people or are the people servant of our President? The former is the American view and the latter the monarchical and dictatorial.
posted by
cpklapper
on October 15, 2009 at 3:21 AM
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I like a good political poem! It is those who dare to challenge the norm that get my respect! Touche! sam
posted by
sam444
on October 14, 2009 at 9:21 PM
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I concur with Sinome .
posted by
afzal50
on October 14, 2009 at 6:12 PM
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cpk, your title says it all: "Hail to the Big"..but I think from what we
hear on our Cdn. news, Mr. Big is shrinking fast....our P.M. is the total opposite if anything, and very conservative....
posted by
Rumor
on October 14, 2009 at 2:31 PM
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Re:
Thanks, Marta!
Carl Peter
posted by
cpklapper
on October 14, 2009 at 12:09 PM
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I like it... and I deplore that children are made to sing praises to ANY other than G-d. It is sickening how they impose their beliefs on us... and we can not protest too much might we we be labeled racists even though race has nothing to do with his incompetence... Excellent response Carl :-) xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on October 14, 2009 at 11:46 AM
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Re: Well written!
The next issue of The Johnsonville Press should have my column arguing that corporations are governments (not persons as the US Supreme Court asserted in
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company) and therefore in contention with other governments and, as is clear with the rise of the "Corpos" here under Obama, can dominate public governments of lesser scope.
posted by
cpklapper
on October 14, 2009 at 8:12 AM
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Well written!
I think that your government and ours are weasels of a colour... government of the customers by the merchants, aka All the market will bear... and then some.
Sadly our governments have lost their fear of the people, and that way lies tyranny
posted by
lionreign
on October 14, 2009 at 7:37 AM
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Yes, we are only allowed to hear two of the sides. The populists and other voices are fastidiously ignored and suppressed by the financial-political complex and their control of televised media.
posted by
cpklapper
on October 14, 2009 at 6:40 AM
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What our politicians are doing on both sides worries me to no end. This satire definitely captures the concerns I have about Obama.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on October 13, 2009 at 6:45 PM
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Re: Thanks, Miriam, for reading and commenting in my blog
CPK, you are more than welcome. As I said, I may disagree with a lot of what you're saying, but I enjoy reading you and wouldn't dream of calling you to task disproportionately to the debate at hand. The only thing I can really say about Obama in his defense right now is that he also said he was surprised and felt unworthy to stand in the company of other winners. That doesn't necessarily mean he believes those words -- but I like to believe that he does.
I love the Episcopal Church, and was a member for about a year. I've chosen a different path spiritually at this time, but love the ideas of humility and oneness in the eyes of God. This was the very reason I chose the path I am on now. I'm also painfully aware of the irony that exists in loudly declaring one's own humility.
Politically, supposedly (according to some test I took) I'm a Centrist Conservative Libertarian, which is far removed from the mostly Liberal Humanitarian I thought I was. Go figure.
posted by
myrrhage_
on October 13, 2009 at 1:00 PM
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Thanks, Miriam, for reading and commenting in my blog
and for your civil response to my comment in yours. For the record, I am politically a populist, which places me to the left of Karl Marx, the right of Adam Smith and anti-partisan to boot. I therefore have a different take from both on practically everything, including the role of religion issues you have mentioned. Of course, my view of the role of religion is also colored by my faith, which is a deeply personal Christianity that has found its home in the Episcopal church. Thus, I practice love for the least as love of God, seeing God in each of us including myself, Bush and Obama. What I object to is the sycophantic drivel whereby one person is held out to be better than us all. All it does is leave open the avenue for that person to believe the hype and act like he alone is God and force closed any doors for constructive criticism. Anything I can do to take President Obama down a few rungs is therefore an act of Love, saving him from the pride which goes before the fall.
Gandhi would have spurned any worship of himself. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have done the same. JFK would have laughed at any who would have tried. I am sure that they all would have much rather that people loved each other than worshiped them or their memory.
posted by
cpklapper
on October 13, 2009 at 12:53 PM
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Re:
Thanks for reading,
Darson.
The biggest part of the frustration is that Washington and Wall Street are grabbing more and more control in more and more areas. It is hardly comforting when Wall Street, as life insurance companies and networks, says that the status quo is fine and that the problem is that Washington is going to try to be King of the Health Insurance Hill. Both of those would put you or me down in a heartbeat.
What we need now is for the people to reclaim the power of their local governments away from the political parties and take control of health care so that each of our communities, you and your neighbors, decide on the medical care offered and assure that it is offered to everyone in that community, free of charge.
posted by
cpklapper
on October 13, 2009 at 11:56 AM
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CPK, I wrote a response to your comment on my blog, if you want to take a look.
posted by
myrrhage_
on October 13, 2009 at 11:52 AM
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Good thing they weren't all forced to go along with the No Child Left Behind Act, or there might have really been a stink. Or as my Great Great Grandpap used to say, "We wuzzint forced ter go along wid no politicul schoolin' an we's turned out fine."
posted by
myrrhage_
on October 13, 2009 at 9:43 AM
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Getting the sense that the common people,(the majority of us) for the most part are frustrated...hopefully if i get cancer I won't get put down because of a bad hip or something....I'm worth saving, too...even though I'm only forty and can only pay out taxes for another 25 years....
posted by
Darson
on October 13, 2009 at 9:27 AM
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Re: Ryan
understood and appreciated
posted by
cpklapper
on October 13, 2009 at 3:40 AM
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I would comment accordingly to this...but, being that he is my commander in chief and I am active duty, I have to decline to respond how I wish to! Interesting...that's all I can say.
posted by
Ryan_Morrow
on October 12, 2009 at 8:36 PM
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