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Subject: Bachmann

A message to Bachman and her supporters

It’s with great interest I watch the rabid right wing hold a press conference {sic} where there is a call for revolution against the elected government of the United States.

This is not only appalling, but in my opinion treason, and the press is derelict to not call it such.

To her and her 4,000 bused in supporters I would like to take this opportunity to tell them, real Americans will not stand by and watch as you try to take over our elected government, so tread lightly.

If you want to change what you don't like do it at the polls, not through threats of violence as you may find violence met with violence and it seems there are more of us who are happy with our government then there are of you.

I fought in Vietnam for the right of free speech, however free speech comes with a duty not to subvert the elected process of the U.S., so how bout we cut this crap out now and get on with our obligation to take care of Americans instead of kicking our fellow citizens when they are down.

Thanks Buzz for letting me vent

Trapped in red TN.

Robert
Harrison TN

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Subject: Carly Fiorina was effectively fired from HP

Dear Buzz readers:

Some say that Palin destroyed McCain's campaign, but in fact, it was not her. Let's dig deeper. Carly Fiorina is the person who ran McCain's campaign. Countless voters called to tell Sen. McCain not to have her run his campaign. He did not listen. Why do I think Carly Fiorina is capable of destroying organizations she is with? Let's ask those at Lucent Technologies first. Then let's ask why Carly Fiorina (her ex-husband's last name) REALLY left HP. She was told by the HP board that she was to share her power or hit the road. Carly chose the highway. She was effectively fired from HP.

Why did the board at HP try to kick Carly Fiorina out? The stock was at about $30 when Carly took over the company as CEO. Carly Fiornia drove the stock down to almost $20. She laid off 57,000 people, gave herself a $25,000,000 bonus, and then the new CEO took over. Now the stock is around $47, and that is during a recession. If Carly Fiorina can do a hatchet job on a company when times were good, imagine what Carly could do in DC during a recession? And she is running her campaign on a jobs message, saying a jobless recovery is not acceptable? Well, Carly, I guess you would know since you are the queen of layoffs.

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Subject: Owens' good Omen

The thing about NY 23rd, is that DeDe, the GOP candidate, after dropping out, was actually calling people, telling them to vote for Owens, due to Hoffman being dangerous. That is how bad a representative Hoffman would have been.

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Subject: What Happened

What happened to The United States? What happened to the entire world? What happened to right from wrong? What happened to common sense? What happened to love thy neighbor? What happened to do best for the most? What happened to statesmen? What happened to our leaders? What happened is corporations have more rights than people. What happened is greed and corruption. What WILL happen is frightening.

Bob Lambert
Northridge, CA

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Subject: Cheney's little deferment, Liz lies.

The apple does not fall far from the tree!

While daddy sent our troops like lambs to the slaughter to his ego war, so goes Liz Cheney to lie for him and as we all know she was taught by the best of liars ever, her daddy. A daddy drunk with power!

How can this little girl live with herself if she had to accept the guilt of her father's lie that sent our troops to die, and then refuse to be there to honor them when they returned home to their families.

Cheney's motto must have been 'if you don't see them they where not there.' Also, this did not happen, and no one will remember who sent them or why they had to die!

While President Obama, by doing the loving thing as Commander in Chief and being there to honor those who died in the line of duty, is chastised. Can you believe it? Being honorable they, these troops, went, not knowing, it was on a Cheney power, ego trip. Baby Liz along with daddy have the shameful nerve to lie about President Obama's motive to be there when these heroes arrived home to their grieving loved ones. Why? Because the guilt would be so hard to bear for baby and daddy, and the truth does not permit them to live in peace with themselves. So lie they must to survive. Liz can't get her head around what? The truth??? I'll bet she can't!

Liz, daddy's little girl, who are we to judge you our your daddy, there is a higher authority that does have the power to do just that, and believe me there will be an atonement to be sure, because those who died for the daddy's big lie will not rest in peace till then. And all your lies will not do a darn thing to make daddy's sins go away.

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Subject: A new America....

I am simply appalled at Joe Lieberman's stance on health reform. The man is simply a corporate sponsored weasel with no morals. Why is this so? It's the political system which legalizes bribery and corruption. This country that constantly waves the flag, spouts off on Democracy and, in general, says how bloody good it is, is a dismal failure when it comes to running its self. The system is rife with greed and corruption. It can be made better. We must have public financing for national elections. A parliamentary system. Term limits. Multi political parties. This is just for starters!

I am awaiting, breathlessly, for the completion of the so called debate on public health. It is perfectly obvious to anyone who has experienced a truly national program that we need a single payor plan along with a private insurance opportunity! Not the other way round. It is just disgusting to read of people like Lieberman and others and their spouses intimately involved with corporations (the sweet breath of fascism) ignoring the populace and its wishes.

We need a new America which fulfills the promise of its beginnings. A truly democratic country regardless of wealth, color and creed. And we need it NOW!

A. Leslie Palmer
Mill Valley, CA

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Subject: touching a nerve

Dear BuzzFlash:

I have received a couple of responses to my post the other day lamenting the overabundance of right wing fans here in NW Arkansas and the difficulty of putting up with these people on a daily basis. I'm glad I've illicited a response because frankly it's time somebody shared what the mentality of a given area can become when oversaturated with one-party ideology, evangelical mayhem and willful ignorance.

I'm not afraid to speak out, either online or in person, but I do have to be very cautious because I've found that the vast majority of GOP and Limbaugh fans here are extraordinarily thin skinned and can't tolerate any opposing point of view without becoming angry and confrontational. I always welcome a civil exchange of opinions and ideologies, but it's damned difficult in the Bible Belt where tolerance for alternate opinions is discouraged. I do not exxagerate in my descriptions. I just wish there was a way people would open their minds to other possibilities for their own sake, but you can't force an opinion on anybody.

This is really the rub; a Limbaugh Lemming will not discuss anything. They yell, get their facts wrong (gee, imagine that) and failing that path become insulting and belligerent. They try to force their idealogies down your throat without your asking for them and have little if any respect for dissension. I realize this area is a "pocket" for right wing lunacy due to its reclusive nature on the part of the working class, and the scads of money in Benton County, home of Wal-Mart, the enemy of worker's rights worldwide. It's sad, but I'm a firm believer in the 1st Amendment, and if we don't exercise it, we could easily end up losing it.

Scott
Fayetteville, AR

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Subject: Blue dogs and Lieberman

I am angry with elected officials who pretend to be Democratic party people,when really hiding a neocon! Those are the Blue Dogs. Don't really care how nice they are, they are Republicans, hiding in sheeps clothing. They don't care how they win,winning is what they are all about, not for serving the people. My opinion! They have not proved me wrong yet!

Lieberman is one of the worse, not a blue dog but he will dance to any toon if it will get him what he wants. Lieberman is for Joe Lieberman. Whatever gets the Lieberman's touch, We the People Lose. Ask Al Gore, and Ned Lamont. Now he's after our Public Option. Remember him with John McCain? To be honest, John McCain had the double wammy there with the rogue Sarah in tow. He didn't know what hit him, poor John.

Why Harry Reid trusts him is what's baffling. Why Harry? Were you also lying about wanting the Public Option, because you knew you had Lieberman to bring PO down? Say it isn't so, and maybe you will be believed.At this point in time I doubt it!

Lieberman touch is all over the Public Option, so do not hold your breath for PO in the near future from him. He's out to make a name for himself, even it's a name we wouldn't say in public.

As for the blue dogs, forgetaboutit!

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Subject: Obamacare

It is said by Single Payer (which Obama supported in 2003 and said he would support if he had a Dem House and Senate) is what we need. Activists say that Obamacare is nothing but a bailout to the insurance industry.

Single Payer activists say that Obamacare will force uninsured Americans to purchase health insurance -- whether they can afford it or not (remember when Obama criticized Hillary for this idea back in the primaries?)- from corporations designed to rip them off.

The so-called public option is half-baked -- whether opt out, opt in, triggered, linked to Medicare rates or not -- it will be an abject failure.

It won't control costs.

It won't cover everyone.

It won't stop the wave of medical bankruptcies.

It leaves the insurance corporations in the driver's seat.

And it will probably strengthen them by taking the sickest and most expensive patients off their hands.

I hate to say it, but they are right. Obamacare is not a solution. Single Payer is the only way.

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Subject: Good to get away

Dear BuzzFlash:

It's a been a while since I wrote the Mailbag. My wife and I were on a trip to New England, Maine specifically this October and were lucky enough to visit Boston, Providence and Portland. It's truly beautiful country. This isn't a travelogue, though. Some readers may recall I hail from Northwest Arkansas, a real hotbed of hardcore right wing GOP insanity and evangelicalism. So much so I have become increasingly unhappier living here and once I retire, I'm outta here. For you see, in this Bible Belt stronghold, regionalism is extreme.

Most people do not travel, and except for your quick tourist bucks, after which you can leave quickly, thank you very much, they don't like outsiders. This will change in time as the world continues to infiltrate via the Internet and influx of people from other parts of the country and even the world. The change will be too slow for me to benefit being 48 already, so I will move on as soon as retirement allows.

I made a bet with my wife that during this trek, through which we went through 17 states all over the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard that with the exception of trucks, we wouldn't see one Arkansas license plate other than our own until we neared Memphis on the state line as we returned home. I won the bet. I find this sad, because travelling broadens our scope, increases our knowledge and teaches us that not everybody thinks the same about absolutely everything, a thought I'm pretty sure a large proportion of folks in this area have never entertained that thought.

It's willful ignorance, intolerance and hate that fuels this fire, and while I want to be sure to acknowledge there are good people who are not able to see our country because of economical or health reasons, there are lots who can but won't. Hence, I was relieved to see that in the Northeast, the Democrats are held in higher esteem, concern for everybody's welfare besides one's self and tolerance are much more prevalent. It's a great country, and I have learned that the stubborn South will have to join the rest of the nation soon or be left behind to continue to wallow in its own hate. It's not fair to those of us down here who do care, and there are plenty of us, because we get lumped in with the rest of the region thanks to the dominance of talk radio and FOX News, which you can't get away from anywhere.

So while the song remains the same here in NW Arkansas, I'm encouraged that the whole country isn't like what we Dems have to put up with here. Makes me think maybe there's still hope left, and that's possibly the best thing I brought back home with me.

Scott
Fayetteville, AR

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