Happy Days Are Here Again - Jim Hightower

[Oilwellian]

Cheer up, progressives, says Texas populist Jim Hightower. Not only will Kerry win decisively on Nov. 2 -- we're also seeing the great awakening of grass-roots democracy.

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Yes, I know that the Bushites are creepy-scary thugs who've shown that they'll lie, cheat and steal to win, but they've been doing such things so often that their color-coded bag of tricks has lost credibility with the general public -- the curtain has been pulled back and the wizard has been revealed to be just a spoiled, insecure, petulant little son of a Bush.

Prediction: I believe George W. is a one-term president, just like his daddy was.

I don't say this glibly, nor is it wishful thinking. My prediction is based on what I've seen at the grass-roots level all across the country. As many of you know, I've been travelling practically nonstop since mid-July, going to 50-something cities and towns as part of my "Show Bush the Door in '04 Tour." Using my new book ("Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush") as a focal point, I've been crisscrossing America, speaking with folks in salons and saloons, labor halls and cow barns, bookstores and art museums, churches and theaters, on country fairgrounds, in civic centers, on campuses, in parks, and even inside neon-lit dance halls.

I find that people are onto the Bushites -- and why wouldn't they be? Bush Inc. has spent nearly four years downsizing the middle class, offshoring our best jobs, ignoring the growing cries for healthcare, gutting worker rights, unleashing corporate polluters and plunderers, defunding public education programs, bashing gays and lesbians, sending hundreds of thousands of our loved ones into a deadly war of lies, empowering federal agents to stomp on our liberties, making wholesale arrests of peaceful dissenters ... (gosh, so much to list, so little space).


(It's worth bearing the ad and getting a day pass to read the rest)
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/10/29/grassroots/

[David Dunham]

1. I think he is right.

[Wapsie B]

2. Same here.

I think people are tiring of the Bush Empire. You'd have to be a hard-core repug not to see the damage that's been done, and even then I think some of those have seen the light.

[XOKCowboy]

3. Jim Hightower Is My Hero

America's #1 Populist. I read Thieves In High Places and he makes a lot of sense. I gave it to a coworker who is an outdoors type and a Bushite and it even got him thinking.

Check out his website www.jimhightower.com. He's one of the Good Guys.

[Oilwellian]

4. The article reveals..

many of the grassroots efforts that have taken place all over the country. I found it very inspiring.

[belle]

5. Thanks for sharing that, i needed it. Hightower is good people.

[Robbie67]

6. kick