Eliot Spitzer: " We're Rushing Into a Plutocracy"

[David Sky]

Run time: 16:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp4d_e2HK4Y   Posted on YouTube: September 08, 2011 By YouTube Member: SamSeder Views on YouTube: 78   Posted on DU: September 08, 2011 By DU Member: David Sky Views on DU: 1139

 
From the Majority Report, live M-F 11:30am EST and via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM:
Eliot Spitzer joined the show today to speak with Sam on a number of issues, including why he doesn't feel that we're 'slipping' into a plutocracy...we're rushing into one.

Audio download of the interview: http://bit.ly/r1Bqap

[izquierdista]

1. Bait and Switch

That's what we're going to read in Obama's memoirs. That is, if he fesses up. Or maybe he will just stay in character and keep lying like a televangelist.

[David Sky]

2. I don't know, I'd really like to know if we mis-read Obama, if he always was..

on Wall Street's side, and just made us think he was on OUR side. Or, if he met with such insurmountable resistance, and pressures from the plutocrats and the money folks.......he just couldn't do the job of fighting for us.

He sure is disappointing all of us here, I think that's obvious. The reason Obama is doing what he is doing, I can't figure it out. He would have SO MUCH MORE SUPPORT if he were still fighting for the common guy/gal.

[izquierdista]

3. There is a TYT from 2007 you should hear

Cenk is talking about the pack of potential Democratic candidates and points out (with some surprise) that this Sen. Obama has been quite successful in fund-raising, hanging right in there with Hillary Clinton. The signs were there to read him correctly.

[DonCoquixote]

4. why oh why

did Eliot and Anthony feel they had to prove their manhood by doing stupid sex games?; the country needed both of them.

[David Sky]

5. Perhaps because so many men in power are imperfect. Sex with the

wrong person, or in the wrong way, while holding office, not the worst crime in the world, for sure, but it SURE WRECKS one's chances of continuing to hold office, or to assist your allies and supporters hold office, too.

Clinton damaged Gore's chances, turned independents toward that new idiot on the block from Texas, instead of the egg head Gore who was quoted so much in support of keeping Clinton in office. Spitzer could have done more for NY state, and probably run against Obama in 2012 primaries and been elected. Wiener, well, only time will tell, I have a feeling he will be back in office as a NY representative in Congress, but that's as high an office as he will ever get in politics, I fear.

[saras]

6. A country that chooses torturers over fuckers gets what it deserves.