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I first threw my hat into the ring running for the US House of Representatives for the Green Party in 2006. At the time, there was a popular dissatisfaction with the Iraq War and yet there was complacency on the part of the Bush administration to deal with the people wanting to pull us out. The politics-as-usual, two-party system in the United States was languishing and we no longer had the ability to evolve with the emerging national and global challenges of the 21st century.
I joined the Progressive Democrats in 2007 and returned to the home I was raised in: St. Louis, Missouri. I am now opposing one of the most radical, extreme Bush Republicans in the United States House of Representatives: Todd Aiken.
Missouri is the quintessential bellwether state. In the last 100 years, Missouri has only been wrong once in picking the presidential candidate who eventually won the White House. On Super Tuesday, Missouri went in favor of Barack Obama.
Obama presents an amazing restorative tool for engaging folks who have been apathetic and disenfranchised. He represents a rational, global perspective that is so desperately needed today in our country. And of course, the gross dissatisfaction with George Bush has created an amazing political vacuum that the Democratic Party has the capacity to fill.
After 9/11, George Bush and the American people had the sympathy and empathy of the global community. He could have taken that political capital and expended it to build an international coalition dedicated to protecting against international acts of terrorism. Instead, Bush decides to order a traditional mass military deployment into Iraq as an answer to a decentralized, asymmetrical act of international criminal terrorism. That was the major misstep.
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Re: Byron DeLear: A Time For Dreamers
By Bud Oracle (not verified), May 12, 2008 at 07:28“We’re going to have to remove ourselves off of our fossil fuel addiction”
For two decades I’ve been saying the same things. It’s great that he’s even using my language. I’ve given up my addiction to gasoline 4 years ago, became an Environmental Technologist 16 years ago. I’ve seriously studied this political crisis of ours for almost 2 decades. http://www.orato.com/health-science/2008/04/24/do-humans-have-political-...
“Right now, civilization is headed into a brick wall at 100 miles an hour, and to stop it, we’re going to need some folks in congress who are willing to be laughed at a little bit. We need folks who are willing to be called dreamers.
The time for thinkers has come.”
That’s why I started to put on my Oracle hat 3 years ago and I’m wearing it full time now. It’s time someone shows this society how absurd it is. The slaves need someone to laugh and scowl at to give them some perspective, because otherwise they will stay shackled to the machine diligently producing our demise.
Great article, I hope he and all the dreamers make it. I hope Americans will put the fear mongers, the evil shouters in their place.
That is why I need your help to bring my lateral thinking exercise to the world. Please send an email to The Hour CBC and demand that they put the Oracle on giving my umbrella flying lesson so that dreamers may dream up important ideas which could help save our species. http://www.orato.com/current-events/2008/04/29/personal-tribute-albert-h...
I’m tired of being oppressed by the regressive war/fear mongers. I’ve been handing out cards linking to this website, my writings and asking people to support me in my efforts to get a voice for change. Yes I feel its that important! Byron DeLear , is only one voice in the wilderness. I need your support, as well as thousands of others if we humans are to survive. Send an email and help me make my little bit happen, please. I’ve stepped up and done my duty for society http://www.orato.com/current-events/2008/04/28/i-trusted-rcmp.
Yes, I feel it is that important that we must all step up and do something!