1,000,000 voices for health care reform. Join us Feb 24th - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

RichC · #1 02-19-2010, 10:50 AM

And here comes the Cavalry to seal the healthcare deal.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/19/838452/-MoveOn,-HCAN,-SEIU-join-us-for-massive-Feb.-24th-1,000,000-Voices-for-HCR-mobilization

Over the last week or so, we've mobilized an unprecedented coalition of the largest progressive organizations in the nation, including MoveOn, HCAN, DFA, Progressive Congress and SEIU--with others expected to join imminently.
On February 24th, the day before the Presidential Healthcare Summit, we will deliver to Washington DC, a scream they will never, ever forget.
1,000,000 VOICES FOR HEALTHCARE REFORM: A VIRTUAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON
We'll do this via calls, faxes, emails, telegrams, balloon drops and carrier pigeons. Whatever. It. Takes.
This coalition is committed like nothing this country has ever witnessed, to turning the dream of guaranteed and affordable healthcare into reality.

Fitz · #2 02-19-2010, 11:42 AM

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Perhaps it's time to redefine "hope" in the greater social sense of the word. To me, hope is not synonymous with "wishes fulfilled." In fact, hope should not be about wishing at all. Hope should be based on confidence that the individual or group is reliably competent enough to meet the challenges that circumstances present. Hope is justified when people demonstrate to themselves that they can behave ably and bravely. Hope is not really possible in the face of patent untruthfulness. It is derived from a clear-eyed and courageous view of what is really going on. I don't think that defines any of the behavior in the United States these days. We've become a self-jiving nation intent on playing shell games, running Ponzi schemes, and working Polish blanket tricks on ourselves.

It begins to look now as if the Obama team is determined to run this creaking vessel right over the falls. We could have bravely faced the structural perversities in banking the past year, but we decided not to. So far only a tiny minority of the public - unfortunately the "tea-bagging" race-baiters - have been the only ones to squawk. I look around at my fellow baby-boomer ex-hippie, ex-political radical age-cohorts and I see a sad-ass claque of passive, played-out, defeated dreamers too depressed to form a coherent thought about what's really going on... lost in sentimental fantasies about "world peace," or free heart-transplants-for-everybody as they, the boomers themselves, lurch toward the graveyard.

http://www.kunstler.com/blog/2009/10/self-jiving-nation.html

Skid Row Joe · #3 02-19-2010, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Fitz

http://www.kunstler.com/blog/2009/10/self-jiving-nation.html

Absolutely right on.

pj67coll · #4 02-19-2010, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe

Absolutely right on.

Indeed.

- Peter.

MS Fowler · #5 02-19-2010, 07:14 PM

A virtual march. How convenient. I can protest from the comfort of my home, and never really "do" anything.

A virtual march is about as good as being a great virtual golfer. The skills do not translate to the actual game.

My guess is that in a virtual march the sponsors can claim as many millions of marchers as they choose.

Emmerich · #6 02-19-2010, 09:27 PM

A virtual march is like having a porn star do your wife on your wedding night, doesn't feel quite right...pretty pathetic.

Too bad these socialist clowns get confused about what the term "reform" means.