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Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.

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But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
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Democratic Freedom Mean Political Social System Today
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
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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Beach Country Hero Quater Working
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
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Blue Fighting Nuts
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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Gorges Unyielding War
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Block Democracy Long
Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
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Believe Thinking Winning
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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First Firsts Monopoly Time
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.

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