Comments on: FDL Book Salon Welcomes David Swanson, Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union

By: ObamasQuagmire

ObamasQuagmire — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:31:21 +0000

General McChrystal on 60 Minutes (live now), “We could do good things in Afghanistan for 100 years and still lose.”

Most powerful unintentional call for an end to the war in Afghanistan that I have heard in a while. A nugget of truth in a propaganda piece.

By: Jeff Kaye

Jeff Kaye — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:30:43 +0000

Thanks David, for coming by!

And ditto to those you have mentioned.

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:28:17 +0000

thanks for sharing that awesome passage!

By: Jeff Kaye

Jeff Kaye — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:25:41 +0000

Maybe you are thinking of, or remembering this, from a young man’s pen almost 200 years ago:

And these words shall then become
Like Oppression’s thundered doom
Ringing through each heart and brain,
Heard again — again — again–

`Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number–
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you–
Ye are many — they are few.’

from The Mask of Anarchy, by Percy B. Shelley
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~.....archy.html

By: Knoxville

Knoxville — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:14:36 +0000

Just ordered a copy of David’s Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Daybreak…..1583228888

Thanks, David!

By: David Swanson

David Swanson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:09:46 +0000

yes i missed #65, but i didn’t miss that topic in the book and don’t get the impression from this thread that anybody thinks it’s verbotten. I just missed it. Sorry.

By: Knoxville

Knoxville — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:07:55 +0000

can’t hurt but go to YOUR rep too

Done! However, they’re all Republicans (both US Senators and the Representative from TN-2), will not vote under any circumstances the way I think they should, and will easily keep their offices come 2010. Rep John Duncan won’t even have a Democratic challenger in the midterm election.

Everything else I’m doing goes above and beyond as I try to stand with so many others in this country who share my values and think as I do!

[Sorry. Thought you were referring to Health Care Reform. I’ll send all three here in TN a letter re ACORN too.]

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:06:36 +0000

spork, that #65 comment you made was very provocative and inspired me to think in terms of dealing with dysfunctional party or going elsewhere to support a new one. :) good for you for speaking up!

By: David Swanson

David Swanson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:06:00 +0000

Sorry. Tried to catch all the comments but obviously didn’t manage it. In my defense, there are 185 comments :-) Whatever the other one was, you can send me at david@davidswanson.org

By: David Swanson

David Swanson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:04:58 +0000

The authors of the Constitution expected it to be amended frquently and would consider how outdated we’ve allowed it to become a radically dangerous act — and gave us 2 different ways to get to a Con Con. Let’s do it.