Did anyone see Michael Moore on CSPAN the past couple of days?
I have to admit that way back years ago I thought he was just another ego maniac who was a wannabe movie producer. He seemed so sloppy and had that arrogance that turns some folks off at first.
But, this guy is deep. And this man cries tears in many words that he speaks. He portrays more passion for a good human race than most preachers do in church sermons. He's a really simple thinking man who see's through the smoke screen and filters things so that we get the truth.
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http://www.cspan.org/
See Michael Moore at Paul Wellsstone Memorial Dinner Video
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There he was standing at the podium in a suit..with no baseball hat and speaking so beautifully. I have gotten used to the sloppy slobishness and kinda liked it. The suit threw me. But just maybe he did it so that the whole room would truly take him seriously. That what he had to say was no joke. It did work. He got spontanious standing ovations from a room with a mixture of young and old people somewhere around the Detroit area.
If you saw it you know what his message was....We...YOU and ME fucked up. We...YOU and ME have allowed this to happen while setting on our hands. He blames America for freaking out and letting the corporations, military industrial machine and extreme fundamental religious fanatics (American Taliban) to move right in and take over what once was viewed as the greatest and richest country on the face of the Earth. The groups mentioned have sqandered everything we have gained in over 220 years in just 5 short years. They haven't stopped....they won't. It's get while the gettin's good for all of them. Grab it now because when the people snap out of it these groups will be shut down and smashed.
Moore says that both Republican and Democrats are good people. The conservative's of Abe Lincoln's time believed in conserving the land,guarding the natural resources, not wasting our finances, not being greedy, not allowing government to smother the people and keeping religion in it's place...out of any influence in government. They believed in not creating a mass of debt that the people would eventually owe and that government should pay it's own way from taxes collected period.
He said that both parties mainstream members were good, honest and intelligent people who actually share more in agreement than they dis-agree on. I think he was correct in that statement.
The republican party was kidnapped by the groups mentioned before. A very small portion of the population has taken over. And we are still allowing it!!!!
I wish I could state the entire speach exactly as he did...his use of force and even whispers from time to time was pretty dramatic...
Having two kids in the Army right now I was so glad he spoke to my two solders. That they were indeed hero's and nothing they do will ever be considered in vain. They join, train, fight and die for all Americans and that is the greatest of all sacrifices. He made that point very clear. WE...and he was very to the point...WE...the rest of us who keep talking about staying the course in a war that will never be won and will never have the outcome we all want. It's US who are wrong...dead wrong. To send young men and women to war using fear and lies to die...to be targets of bullets and roadside IED's months after a victorious march to Baghdad. Leaving these kids to drive around in a place they aren't wanted so that "WE CAN FIGHT THEM OVER THERE AND NOT HERE" just ain't the American way. It really sounds pretty fucking selfish when you set down and think it through. Go blow up Iraq...rip it to shreds and then open the borders to terrorists like a damn breaking and coral them in Iraq and pick them off for the next 50 years to keep the US safe.....is a really sick sick way to act. What type of good moral human being would simply dismiss Iraqi citizens because they think American's are the only people on Earth who should live safe? The answer is....US...you and me.
Now I know...you and I can say "Hey, I protested the war"...hey...I called Bush a liar!!! hey I voted for Gore and Kerry!!! Hey. I wrote my Senator and Rep!!!...well thats just peachy! because as Michael Moore puts it they are still telling the lies, they are still stealing America, and they are still taking away all your rights. They ... the groups ...with Bushco's help, have YOUR country, and are in the process of ramsacking it.
AND WE ARE THE PROBLEM....WE MUST DEMAND IN AN ALMOST REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH THAT ENOUGH IS TRULY ENOUGH AND THIS COUNTRY BELONGS TO THE 280 MILLION AMERICAN CITIZENS....
You know it's true...I know it's true. All the really great diaries here and blogs can have the greatest messages and truth and good reporting but what the fuck good is it when every minute of the day we are still being governed by BUSH!!!!!!!!! What the fuck are we doing? This is America...we hold the truth as golden!....But today..that just isn't the case is it?
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If you don't recommend this rant then Michael made his point..just set there on your fucking hands and feel good about whats going on!!!!!!!*******************************************
Or RECOMMEND this and lets encite some folks to work their asses off to get rid of all those lazy ass republican and democrats who don't believe as we do...the United States belongs to the PEOPLE.....IT"S YOURS AND MINE!!!! Demand Excellence..Demand Truth...Demand Fairness!!!!....RECOMMEND THIS DIARY!!!!