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Together We Thrive

For too long Americans have been set one against the other, it is a side affect of a free market society.  How can profits be maximized, how can I get the work done for the lowest possible costs.  This continually sets one group against the other, especially in the blue collar sectors of America.  It has become a part of the American Business model, whether it was indentured servants, slaves picking cotton, sharecroppers, the industrious people that built the railroads or todays migrant workers.  As long as we remain divided, fighting for the scraps that America has to offer it will be one group against the other.

What I see in Obama is a chance for a revolution.  A chance for every group to participate and be heard;  A chance to live the American dream that has been denied to so many.  Together we can and will change the world and return America to the shining beacon of Hope and Prosperity that we were and that we can be again.  Only when we work together do we accomplish feats that rival any ever accomplished in the history of mankind.  Diversity is our strength, that is what this campaign brings us a promise of.  For many this is a scary prospect and thought, getting to know someone different from myself.  We all want the same basic things for example a safe place to live, health and a quality education for our kids. 

In a previous career, I was the global leader of Diversity for a global fortune 500 corporation, I have studied the affects of diverse groups working together and the results can not be denied.  Together we Thrive!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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Permalink Reply by Charles Lane on January 24, 2011 at 10:19am
Permalink Reply by Che Pancho Villa on January 24, 2011 at 10:34am
I must admit - that's funny.
Permalink Reply by Che Pancho Villa on January 24, 2011 at 10:43am
Here's another funny one:

Permalink Reply by Charles Lane on January 24, 2011 at 11:11am

You will really laugh your ass off at this one. This is a collage of your boy using photos of his victims.... HILARIOUS!!! Communism is sssooooooo funny!!!

Permalink Reply by Che Pancho Villa on January 24, 2011 at 12:26pm
Yeah it is - check out my latest post - that fellow is over the top but everything he says is sadly true.
Permalink Reply by Van on January 14, 2011 at 6:44am

And more right wing bullshit bites the dust:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jan/13/mich...

But as for the statement above, I don't see anything objectionable in it. It's pretty boilerplate nicey-nice stuff. Maybe you should take heed of it.

Permalink Reply by Charles Lane on January 14, 2011 at 7:05am
I do take heed of it. I work for a corporation and together we thrive as long as the government and their alllies quit putting roadblocks in our way and attaching anchors to our plans. Matter of fact we could enlarge the hive and help others thrive and allow them to survive.
Permalink Reply by Van on January 14, 2011 at 1:46pm
Yeah if the evil gumment got out of the way your corporation could help people thrive by paying them 10 cents an hour and forcing them them to work 16 hours a day 6 days a week. You know like they used to do back in Americas libertarian days. Or like they still do in third world countries. Cause nothing shows your love for Jesus like treating people as disposable things who exist only to boost your multimillion dollar CEO bonus.
Permalink Reply by Van on January 14, 2011 at 1:52pm
And might I add, you're a real retard, and that's the most retarded thing I've ever heard. Sorry President Obama, it had to be said.
Permalink Reply by Mary Chestnut on January 14, 2011 at 2:16pm
And the speech was pretty darned good too.
Permalink Reply by Charles Lane on January 14, 2011 at 4:31pm
When the president did lay blame, it was on Americans in general. Among the many odd assertions he made: suggesting that 'what a tragedy like this requires' is that 'we align our values with our actions.' We were told to 'expand our moral imaginations.'" What does this have to do with anything? Nothing.  They had a lone gunman, mentally disturbed. We have to figure out how he got the gun since he couldn't afford it. We have to figure out why, since everybody knew he was such a menace, he was able to run as free as he was around that town.  The questions are obvious.  The answers are not that complicated here, but the notion that we Americans somehow need to improve ourselves? We need to get better at the way we talk with each other?
The president said that didn't matter, that that wasn't a factor.  Most of his speech was about how we gotta get better dealing with each other, that we have to somehow step it up -- and yet he tried to say in his own way that that had nothing to do with it. He said, "We'll never really know what happened here.  Rhetoric didn't cause this," and yet we've all gotta improve our rhetoric.  We've all gotta step it up. I know the target audience is gonna eat that stuff up.  You could see people in the crowd crying over the notion we all just have to get along and so forth, but I live in Literalville. I live in Realville watching this, and I'm thinking, "This is not solving anything."  The president himself is responsible for some of the disunity that exists in the country, and he didn't talk about improving himself.  

OBAMA:  At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay to blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who happen to think differently than we do, it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

Right.  I mean like stop calling people bitter clingers, as the president did in San Francisco, people that cling to their guns and cling to their religion.  And stop telling people if they bring a knife to the fight, we're gonna bring a gun. You mean to stop telling people, "Get in their face, I want you to be angry."  Is that what the president meant when he was saying we've gotta start talking to each other in a way that heals?  And punish your enemies, he told Hispanics, punish your enemies when they don't do it right.  And also we were lectured on civility, but we were also told that whatever his opinion of our lack of civility is had no role in the event.  So why are we being lectured on it?  I mean he openly said that we can't -- and I'm sure there were probably memorial services at the Daily Kos and the Democrat Underground when he said it.  He said political rhetoric had no role here, had no impact. I forget his exact words, but it did not contribute to the cause of the event, and yet we get a lecture on improving our civility.  He's trying to help us heal.  That is the point, we don't need to heal.  The people that need to heal are the victims of the shooting.  They are the ones who need the healing. 
Permalink Reply by Van on January 14, 2011 at 6:27pm
I don't go much for political speeches either, or big public mourning events. But that doesn't stop your assertion about corporations from being retarded.

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