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Week of May 18, 2008 - May 24, 2008

Shame on you, Hillary Clinton!


Hillary Rodham Clinton, you get in here right now!


Your divisive talk is manipulating minds... and not just any minds – really susceptible and simple minds that believe what you say.  It is shameful to encourage people to get angrier and crazier about your lost cause.  You are doing that by suggesting this is anything like Florida 2000.  When you say:

We believe it today just as we believed it back in 2000, when right here in Florida you learned the hard way what happens when your votes aren't counted, and the candidate with fewer votes is declared the winner.

This makes Obama as bad as Bush.  This asks your supporters turn the rage they have about the stolen election way back then and direct it at the candidate of hope and public support.


Your words are damaging Democrats. But these words are the most damaging.  They are not persuasive to the people that need to be persuaded (...supers...), they are inciting an uprising from your masses.  You need only convince a few maniacs that their ideas about Barack Obama are justified, to push them over the edge.  And you're hard at work convincing all your maniacs.


The people you have been talking to are mad that they have no power, and guess what, they have no power over this issue.  Your words are damaging and dangerous.


So you stop it, right now, missy!

Putting our Attention on ACTIONS


As the GWB administration has proven, words can be used to spin anything into anything.  
- The latest Farm Bill, according to Bush, "lacks (farm) program reform and fiscal discipline."  So he will veto it.- CA Rep. Darryl Issa interrupts a hearing that affects emmissions standards in his state, by asking the chairman, citing rules and procedure, while Waxman questions a stonewalling EPA administrator.- John McCain enjoys the image of a maverick reformer who wants to change Washington, meanwhile the lobbyists running his campaign are swiftly exiting out the back door, and except for the main one, possibly the worst one, Charlie Black. "People will be thoroughly, more thoroughly, vetted," he claims.  Yet he doesn't act on removing Charlie Black.
The actions are the important thing in all three of these examples, and the myriad examples that occur in the news every day.  Why DOES McCain keep Charlie Black?  Why DOES Issa interrupt the hearing? Why DOES Bush veto the Farm Bill?
I ask all who read this to spread the idea that:
Words are no longer important. 
Actions speak louder than them.  Here's how you can contribute to a movement that will silence official lies and hold people accountable for their actions:
Declare you are no longer interested in the words from people whose actions have proven to contradict them.  
Point out the actions that bring a person's true intentions into question.
Question the words coming from the mouths of liars. When a lie is spoken, follow up by citing the evidence of their actions.  
When reporting a story, focus on the activities, rather than the statements, of the people involved.
Hold all statements to a basic standard of scrutiny.
Be prepared to rebut statements by knowing the actions a person has taken.  Bring them with you to interviews and press conferences. 

I know this is basic stuff.  I'm just fed up with sloppy journalism and intimidated, uninformed advocates giving in too easily to comments, words, and statements that have no bearing in reality.
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