David Swanson with Laura Flanders on the Imperial Presidency

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Rebooting the System: David Swanson & Mark Winston Griffith
By: GRITtv Wednesday December 2, 2009 10:30 am

After the 2008 election, a cartoon was circulated of Obama sitting in the Oval Office Scotch-taping the Constitution back together. But a year later, David Swanson, author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union and founder of AfterDowningStreet, notes that Obama has quietly allowed many Bush-Cheney practices to stay in place–not upholding the policies, perhaps, but issuing signing statements and hanging on to the increased power of the presidency.

Mark Winston Griffith, on leave from the Drum Major Institute and former candidate for New York City Council, joins Swanson and Laura to talk about the way nothing seems to change in politics. Is there a way around the machine to create a true politics of the people? These two big thinkers have some suggestions.

http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2009/12/02/rebooting-the-system-david-swanson-mark-winston-griffith/

Video at link.

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1. K&R

Interesting!

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2. David mostly talks about Congress and its abdication of power.

Very well done, David!

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3. K/Recced and linked

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7133330