Comments on: Repudiations http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/05/12/01/repudiations/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:38:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: bob http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/05/12/01/repudiations/#comment-134210 bob Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:31:02 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/05/12/01/repudiations/#comment-134210 Time to leave the cult of personality behind. NONE of these morons are our saviour. ALL of them will fuck shit up. Somehow we have to decide who will fuck shit up least. I'm picking Edwards but.............. Time to leave the cult of personality behind. NONE of these morons are our saviour. ALL of them will fuck shit up. Somehow we have to decide who will fuck shit up least. I’m picking Edwards but…………..

]]> By: Susie http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/05/12/01/repudiations/#comment-134201 Susie Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:55:36 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/05/12/01/repudiations/#comment-134201 No, I didn't. I compared how voters projected their desires onto Bush, just as they're doing with Obama. No, I didn’t. I compared how voters projected their desires onto Bush, just as they’re doing with Obama.

]]> By: DailySally http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/05/12/01/repudiations/#comment-134196 DailySally Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:55:01 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/05/12/01/repudiations/#comment-134196 Wilson Goode and John Street may have paper credentials, but both are pedestrian politicians with neither vision nor gut-level belief in themselves or the people they serve. Both worshiped more at the Church of Corporate Greed than in the crumbling schools and neighborhoods of genuine need. They took their constituents for granted and let them down. White mayors have done the same, it's true, but sad to say they've had the one thing Black mayors have lacked: real clout. Without that essential political currency, Goode and Street are just two more crooks and liars. Joe Clark, Bill Green and Ed Rendell, not a saint among them -- yet in their time, smart, credentialed, connected and White, three of the best (White, Black or Hispanic) mayors in the country. Michael Nutter might just crack the code in Philly. Which democrat can do that for the country? Wilson Goode and John Street may have paper credentials, but both are pedestrian politicians with neither vision nor gut-level belief in themselves or the people they serve.

Both worshiped more at the Church of Corporate Greed than in the crumbling schools and neighborhoods of genuine need. They took their constituents for granted and let them down.

White mayors have done the same, it’s true, but sad to say they’ve had the one thing Black mayors have lacked: real clout. Without that essential political currency, Goode and Street are just two more crooks and liars.

Joe Clark, Bill Green and Ed Rendell, not a saint among them — yet in their time, smart, credentialed, connected and White, three of the best (White, Black or Hispanic) mayors in the country.

Michael Nutter might just crack the code in Philly. Which democrat can do that for the country?

]]> By: Part of the problem | Peace Arena http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/05/12/01/repudiations/#comment-134189 Part of the problem | Peace Arena Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:52:13 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/05/12/01/repudiations/#comment-134189 [...] of the problem Susie: I see our country at a crossroads. And if we nominate a charismatic figure who, perhaps [...] [...] of the problem Susie: I see our country at a crossroads. And if we nominate a charismatic figure who, perhaps [...]

]]> By: astroworf1 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/05/12/01/repudiations/#comment-134186 astroworf1 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:10:31 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/05/12/01/repudiations/#comment-134186 I didn't just see you compare Obama to dubya. I didn’t just see you compare Obama to dubya.

]]> By: Wendy Whinner http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/05/12/01/repudiations/#comment-134185 Wendy Whinner Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:03:32 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/05/12/01/repudiations/#comment-134185 The country needs to elect a black president someday soon. Then we can get past race as an issue. Obama may be the one. My hesitation due to his slim resume is he will be a lousy president because I can't forget the two worst mayors Philly ever had were Wilosn Goode and John Street- they were both educated and smart but in office were utter failures-and I voted for Goode the first time he ran. This might sound racial but I don't think it is- I would not have the same hesitation towards Colin Powell or Condi. The country needs to elect a black president someday soon. Then we can get past race as an issue. Obama may be the one.

My hesitation due to his slim resume is he will be a lousy president because I can’t forget the two worst mayors Philly ever had were Wilosn Goode and John Street- they were both educated and smart but in office were utter failures-and I voted for Goode the first time he ran. This might sound racial but I don’t think it is- I would not have the same hesitation towards Colin Powell or Condi.

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