"Those of Us Who Know" - by RFK Jr.

[welshTerrier2]

i'll just say this ... if RFK Jr. ever decided to run for President, the Democratic Party would come back to life ...

this one's really long ... and it's also not long enough for those who just can't get enough of hearing the truth ...

source: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0916-27.htm

Title: Those of Us Who Know That America’s Worth Fighting for Have to Take It Back Now from Those Who Don’t

The White House has used all kinds of ingenious machinations to try to conceal its radical agenda from the American people including Orwellian rhetoric. When they want to destroy the forests, they call it the Healthy Forest Act. When they wanted to destroy the air, they called it the Clear Skies Bill. But most insidiously, they have put polluters in charge of virtually all the agencies that are supposed to protect Americans from pollution. <skip>

There is nothing wrong with having business people in government. It’s a good thing if you’re objective is to recruit competence and expertise but in all of these cases these individuals as I show in my book, have entered government service not to benefit the public interest but rather to subvert the very laws they’re now charged with enforcing in order to enrich the president’s corporate pay masters. They have imposed enormous diminution in quality of life in this country. <skip>

Today as a result of the abolishment of that doctrine (i.e. the Fairness Doctrine), six giant multi-national corporations now control all 14,000 radio stations in our country, almost all 6,000 TV stations and 80 percent of our newspapers, all of our billboards and now most of the Internet information services, so you have six guys who are dictating what Americans have as information and what we see as news. The news departments have become corporate profit centers, they no longer have any obligation to benefit the public interests, their only obligation is to their shareholders and they fulfill that obligation by increasing viewer ship. <skip>

And 80 percent of Republicans are just Democrats who don’t know what’s going on .

[glitch]

1. Nominating even before reading, because I know it'll be great.

Now I am off to read. :) Thanks for posting!

[welshTerrier2]

2. i'm off to meet some NO families

i actually made a lasagna ... god help them ...

back in a few hours ...

good call on recommending ... RFK is something there's only one of ...

[halobeam]

3. me too...

[Independent_Liberal]

4. Kick!

[jackster]

5. The man has been trying to sound

the alarm for years now.....

he's nothing more than remarkable.

(actually, I've had a crush on him since I was 14 - back oh MANY years ago!)

[ourbluenation]

6. he's smart as hell and dammit - he's hot!

this is a great essay - just great. Recommended and thx for posting.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Hehe

I've actually had a crush on JFK junior but when I started getting into politics and got to know RFK junior some more and started liking him. :loveya: I'm sure he's wayyyy older than me. Haha.

[MelissaB]

7. Who says we don't have dems who speak out?

RFK, Jr. does all the time.

:patriot:

[FreedomAngel82]

8. Great article!

I just love him too. Him and Teddy are great. I don't know if he'd ever run though. :(

[Mr Rabble]

10. I would vote for RFK in a heartbeat. nt

[MelissaB]

11. Me, too!

:hi: Will he ever run?

[dcfirefighter]

13. I would work 80h a week for him, for free

Hands down, he's my favorite.

[carpediem]

12. love this line:

And 80 percent of Republicans are just Democrats who don’t know what’s going on.

would be a great bumper sticker

[mzmolly]

14. I was thinking this very same thought the other evening.

RFK Jr. for Prez!

[La Coliniere]

15. RFK Jr. is only one of a few

Democrats who have a regular public forum that I truly admire and wouldn't have to think twice about voting for. Yes indeed, JFK Jr. for POTUS.

[calimary]

24. Might be nice to have a Kennedy back in the White House.

And it would take a REALLY lovely edge off the "dynasty" thing that the bushies are hoping for.

World's biggest entitlement program: The "ownership" the bush family feels it has - on the White House.

I've liked this guy for awhile. Seems as though he'd be a good one to inherit the mantle. And Dear God we need him!!!

[Lifelong Protester]

16. I thoroughly enjoyed that and will print it out.

As you can see by my avatar, I have always thought that RFK,Sr. was a great person and oh, my heart broke the night he was assassinated (I was 13, and can still remember the chill that went down my spine as I listened to my little transistor radio).

I think RFK, Jr. has ever the same potential, and I would, as someone here said, work 80 hours a week to get him elected should he run for president ever.

His description of God and nature was truly a wonderful piece of writing, and so sadly lost on the fundamentalists who claim to be so damn holy.

I'd also like to point out, and I am sure on some thread someone has also done this, that Jesus spent his time with the poorest of the poor and the prostitutes, the true outcasts of society. And the Hurricane that brought so much havoc and devastation to the poor and downtrodden of the Gulf? Where, there was the chance for those fundies to show how damn holy they are, how like their personal savior they are.

Hmm, hope there is an entrance exam at the pearly gates, because those folks who ignored the suffering of the poor have FAILED.

[faithnotgreed]

17. big kick for rfk jr - always admired him for his environmentalism

and intellect

[OneBlueSky]

18. "if RFK, Jr. ever decided to run for President . . .

the Democratic Party would come back to life"

realistically, the nomination is his if he wants it . . . even Hillary would have to step aside if he decided to run . . . and he is the ONLY potential candidate who could bring back a lot of voters who currently fancy themselves "conservative," but who strongly supported his father . . .

from what I've read, RFK Jr. doesn't want to run for anything because he needs to devote his time and energy to his family . . . the other reality that is inescapable is that, as a candidate for president, he would be extremely vulnerable . . . and he can't take the chance that his children could be left fatherless . . .

the only way he might possibly run would be if a massive "Draft Bobby" movement were mounted, probably beginning on the net . . . the only argument that might actually bring this about is that we are ALL his family, and we are NOW leaderless . . .

RFK Jr. knows whats happening to this country, and he's one of the few who is willing to stand up and tell the truth . . . since people like this who are actually electable are EXTREMELLY rare, maybe our time and energy should be devoted to covincing him to run, and run hard . . . every other "viable" candidate is currently in office and, therefore, beholden to one corporation or another (and most to more than one) . . .

and to raising enough money to provide him with 24-hour security -- and, with Paul Wellstone in mind, his own plane and pilot . . .

kicked and STRONGLY recommended . . .

[wickerwoman]

19. It would be great to see him run,

but I think maybe it's in poor taste to ask him to do it. I think a Draft Bobby movement would be a really bad idea. The guy has lost his father and his uncle (and possibly his cousin) to the forces of evil in this country. I'd say he's given enough although if he really wants it for himself, I'd be 100% behind him.

[OneBlueSky]

20. yeah, you're right . . . has to be his decision . . .

but we could ask . . . politely . . . :)

[calimary]

26. We certainly could...

Draft Bobby!!!

I, too, would put in one of those unpaid 80-hour work weeks to help get him elected.

It'd be time well spent.

[Imagevision]

21. Apparently those who control the news are fed up with Bush by coverage

being allowed out...woudn't you say?

[YvonneCa]

22. WOW ! ! Send this to everyone you know...

...who reads:-) , and read it to the rest. This explains the Democratic moral values disconnect better than anything I've seen yet. Thank you, Robert Kennedy. Jr.:patriot:

[Greeby]

23. I love Bobby Jr

But if he ran for President he'd be signing his own death warrant. :(

[RJRoss]

25. Excellent speech!

My favorite parts:

"There is nothing wrong with corporations. Corporations are a good thing. They encourage us to take risks, they maximize wealth, they create jobs. I own a corporation.

They’re a great thing but they should not be running our government."

"Where my children and the children of most Americans can now no longer safely engage in the seminal primal activity of American youth which is to go fishing with their father and mother and to come home and eat the fish because somebody gave money to a politician."

[calimary]

28. Welcome to DU!

Glad you're here. Hope you'll help us get RID OF THESE BASTARDS, and put somebody like RFK Jr in power, in their place.

IMPEACHMENT!!!!!!!!!

NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[earth mom]

27. Kick!

:kick: