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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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What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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Believe Heart Need People
Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Alive Beauty Expression
Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Done Journalist Reporting Truth
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
A people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.
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Die Less People Questions Skeptical
Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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Blood Dream Fighting
The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it’s taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
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People Struggle Taken
If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
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Bark Basements Supposed
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
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Facts Ideas Life Static
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology
They’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!
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Hands Heart Over
America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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Country Cutting Direction One
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
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Grassroots People Thinking
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team

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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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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