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Welcome back and I'm glad to see your integrity intact

Submitted June 14, 2008 - 11:22 pm by kurt squire (not verified)

I'm really sorry that you had to go through whatever bumps you did, but I'm also happy that you're safe and more than happy to follow you to narconews.

I have been contemplating how at first the organizing / enemy part didn't really resonate with me. The idea of community organizing and pulling people together to fight the power certainly does.

But, when I think about the success Obama has had rallying people against "the system" and the corrupt divide and conquer politics, it does actually make sense in terms of #13 and then things working all the way down. What I like about it is that you can trace this back to his moving 04 convention speech -- there are no red states blue states but united states. He's taken that message and tweaked it for the campaign trail to be "fighting against those who slice and dice us and keep us from seeing our shared interests in things like the economy, environment, and so on".

This to me, put the Clinton machine on the defensive right away, as that's the politics they know how to play. The more they played it, the more he was able to say, "and that's the problem with politics, right there."

Glad to have you back!

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