I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
BILL MOYERSBarack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions – the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who’d rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
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In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
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The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
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Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation.
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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
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Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.
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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
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The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it’s “important” that we reduce the influence of money.
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Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.
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