Links With Your Coffee - Sunday
- ThomHartmann.com - Ten Steps to Restore Democracy to America
1. Human rights are for humans.
Corporations are not persons. We must update the 14th Amendment to insert "natural" before the word "persons" so corporations can no longer claim the "right to lie," the "right to hide their crimes," the "right to buy politicians and influence elections," and "the right to force themselves on communities that don't want them." Corporate charter laws should be amended on a state-by-state basis to reinstate the spirit of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by again outlawing the ownership of one corporation by another, to limit the term of a corporation, to insert Corporate Code-like language requiring a corporation to place the needs of its community above its desire for profits, and, as Teddy Roosevelt so strongly urged us, to ban corporations from political activity of any sort. Similarly, corporations are not nations and shouldn't stand on an equal footing with nations. The United States should withdraw from support of treaties and agreements such as NAFTA, GATT, WTO, and its support of The World Bank.
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Comments
Well, I'll try and play the role of "impartial skeptic" since this blog doesn't seem willing to do so.
Clinton's curious pro-McCain rhetoric:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14809.html
Posted by: Theowne
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March 9, 2008 11:59 AM
thanks Theowne,
here's more Hillary logic:
"In her relentless attack ads before the Texas and Ohio primaries, and in public comments since, Hillary has said that Obama is not ready to pick up the "red phone" and serve as Commander-in-Chief. If that's true, why would she imperil the nation by choosing him as her vice-president?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/hillary-obama-not-ready-b90542.html
Posted by: entrancemountain | March 9, 2008 1:20 PM
Who knows. Maybe she'll get him to take messages. Maybe Obama has some good zingers he could use. He might start beatboxing while pretending to put you on hold.
Posted by: melpomenh | March 9, 2008 1:37 PM
Wow. I don't think any of that made any sense.
Posted by: melpomenh | March 9, 2008 1:45 PM
If anyone watched Meet the Press today, Ed Randell ended up effectively reversing himself on that question, at first charging that Obama doesn't have the relevant experience to be commander in chief, and now saying what a great VP he'd be.
(I don't think either candidate, whomever loses, should be VP. If Clinton loses, we will need her in the Senate, I think, helping push for important legislation. (And I think she and Bill would not be good team players in the VP office). And if Obama loses--which is looking less likely every day now-- he has nothing to gain from taking the VP spot).
Posted by: Adam
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March 9, 2008 5:50 PM
Hartmann's basically calling for a new constitutional convention, which is why I was for Gravel last year -- Mike was the only candidate daring to talk about such a necessity. Obama, who I admittedly and reluctantly now support, talks about transformation in government, but Gravel was the only one who dared to offer a real plan for transforming it.
Posted by: Brian Donohue
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March 10, 2008 11:19 AM
re: Human Rights are for Humans
"The United States should withdraw from support of treaties and agreements such as NAFTA, GATT, WTO, and its support of The World Bank."
YES! Norm, my man, keep this coming. Make sure Charles has a look at this too.
We all want change. Tanking the corpo-fascism disguised as free trade is a critical first step- more important than either Hillary or Obama.
Here's hoping the left and Paulian-right can come together and achieve plurality on this issue. It is more important than partisanship; more dangerous to the liberties we all fight for.
Posted by: Zaphod for President
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March 10, 2008 10:29 PM
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