Barack Obama

freshwest

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6. I was actually planning to edit one sentence there:

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 12:58 PM

Aug 2014

Last edited Mon Aug 4, 2014, 08:20 AM - Edit history (5)

From:

'We've seen him wet with sweat or rain.'

To:

'We've seen him wet with sweat, rain and tears.'

And in that picture there, I think he is summoning the 'god part of his brain' as some call it:

Whether he's really 'praying' to a power outside himself or to find the words to express his belief in his vision of our nation. He always clarifies at the end of official speeches with these words, even though most don't understand:

'And God bless the United States of America.'

Republicans and Libertarians refer to the United States, and not America. Their emphasis is on 'states' rights,' which is their Trojan horse for dissolving the Union that is the United States of America.

Because it's easier to establish more powerful oligarchies that way to be governed by them. That's the real intent of their words.

But what they tell their followers, is that each state has more sovereignty than the federal government. The Tenthers like Rand, Bundy, the sovereign citizens militants** as well as several official GOP state parties that call for secession in their state platforms, and impeaching Obama for not giving into that, base their objection to all federal law from part of the Tenth Amendment of the Bill of Rights, a housekeeping measure to protect rights that not enumerated, not to fight the federal government. The Founders were unwilling to give up what they'd fought to create.

And given the year it was ratified after we'd been fighting off British rule, we would not have wanted any of those rights left to them, or other nations such as France and Spain, who had designs on territory.

Our soveriegnty from European rule was disputed for many years later, and attacked in the War of 1812 and the Civil War itself as the Confederacy sought alliances with foreign powers to break the USA up into their fiefdoms.

We have ideological forces working hard to redefine America, into something that negates the rights of well over half of the population, but their followers either don't realize that or worse yet, approve.

And the continuing degrading of the Union and all it ever hoped to stand for, is for that purpose as well. Reagan and then Bush set into motion a strong disdain and distrust of our federal government because it interfered with the oligarch plan. Our sins are many, but we will not escape them by being divided up into Koch fiefdoms. There will just be no one but the powerful in small regions to rule their citizens with no redress. Corporacracy with no limit, all for the profit of a minority.

Oh, and thanks for the compliment. Your style of writing is much different than mine, comes form the heart, but with a loving view that at times I struggle to express. Too many innocents I've known have been destroyed; the battle is ongoing.

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Maine’s Gov. LePage Offers Feeble Excuse for Meetings with Extremist Sovereign Citizens Group