Barack Obama spent last Saturday telling supporters of his presidential campaign to gather signatures to end the Iraq war. “This is not just a political movement we are building here,” he told a crowd of about 500 in Manchester, N.H. “We are trying to transform the country.” http://www.salon.com/2007/05/23/online_campaigning/
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/09/18th-century-political-thinking-in-the-21st.html >> The new context, then, is that advocating for a better system amounts to insisting on an ideal world – and to also believing there is an easy way to get there. Invoking new Green Lanternism is especially popular among progressive defenders of the president. Criticizing Barack Obama from the left is unsavvy; lobbying for better policy is the height of impractical, self-defeating naïveté. >> The other place I encountered this attitude recently was on the right. Earlier this summer I visited my state representative and voiced my concerns over this incident in Ohio. Within the first ten minutes he’d said words to this effect three times: The oil and gas industry is very influential, so nothing is going to get done.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-02-170913.html >>The anger directed at Putin's article has a lot less to do with Putin's own legacy as a leader, and much more to do with the frustration that new players in the Middle East are now successfully involved in a "game" that has for decades been dominated by if not reserved for Western powers and their allies.
[SIDEBAR: HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE THE BRAIN CHEMISTRY TO SPARK THE REALITY COSMIC WAKE-UP MIND POWER TO GET THE FRAUD IS FRAUD?!]
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