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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>I agree with everything you say here, Massoud. The fact of the matter is
that Barack Obama has done NOTHING WHATSOEVER to earn that Nobel Prize. He
should’ve refused to accept it. I don’t give a damn if he is the
first bi-racial person to ever be elected president. He hasn’t done one
damned thing for anybody in this country other than the filthy rich, and he
sure as hell hasn’t done anything for people of color. He was selected
and then elected by the global corporate thugs and banksters who have bankrupted
this country. He is systematically allowing thousands upon thousands of people
to be killed and maimed all for the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> capitalistic system which is
an inherently unfair, class based system. Obama is being led around by the nose
by wealthy Zionists and Neo-Cons and Neo-Liberals because he answers only to
them. Most of the Congress is included in this.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>Michael Moore is an apologist for the Democratic Party, and he is deluded
as hell if he thinks Barack Obama is going to be persuaded by some peace prize
to do what a normal human being would do and that is to bring the U.S. military
home from the Middle East, get the mercenaries out of the Middle East, close the
idiotic U.S. military bases in countries around the world, make reparations to
the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan for the death and destruction we
have caused, stop funding Israel and declare that terrorist nation a foreign agent,
install Medicare for all in this country, fund public education from K through
college etc. This will not happen because #1) Barack Obama is NO socialist #2) the
Congress is bought and paid for #3) the American people are totally uneducated
and don’t even understand what the hell socialism is and #4) the U.S.
economy is a war based economy and has been since WWII. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>The Neo-Cons, Neo-Liberals and Zionists are short sighted, greedy, two
bit bastards who think only of enriching themselves in the short term. They
care nothing for the future of their children, anybody else’s children,
the earth etc. Their hearts and minds are filled with hate and greed. They want
only to have more than everyone else and live in the lap of luxury while the
majority of the people of the world starve to death and die of preventable
diseases. This is pure evil! They think they can bomb the hell out of anyone
they please and take whatever they want, but this plan will backfire. Either
the people of the United States and the world are going to get a belly full of
being trodden upon and rise up and extinguish these bastards or the human race
is going to disappear because the species is too stupid, apathetic, uneducated,
gullible and willing to follow the fucking Pied Piper right off a cliff. People
seem to need heroes and most of the people they look up to are zeros. The ONLY
saviors will be each one of us who have sense enough to realize what is going
on and what is really important in life. We have the ability to save ourselves
if we just come together and figure out what we collectively need to do. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>I am so sick and tired of people hoping that Obama can be pushed and
prodded to act like a decent human being!! The entire capitalistic system of
the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
needs to be abolished and replaced with an egalitarian socialist system!
Capitalism is a class based system that ONLY favors the wealthy. I would say
racism and sexism are the least of our problems in this country.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>CLASSISM is the major problem in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>!!!! Everything else
falls under the banner of CLASS!!! Until we get rid of this class based system
of ours and start treating people as equals with equal protection under the law
and equal rights, we are never ever going to see any justice here or elsewhere
in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Massoud
[mailto:massoud1@windstream.net] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, October 11, 2009
4:23 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> discuss@paa-tx.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Juli3@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [PAA-Discuss] Get Off our
Back ...Mr. Moore</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>This is suppose to be a discussion group
not just a copy machine bind, collecting copies of all kind of half baked or
burned ideas without any challenges. So let's for a change analyze this
latest bizarre copy from Julie of the copy department. It seems
that she has read what she actually has posted this time and as she says she
"feels" that "MM" that is Michael Moore makes some
"well thought out points here". Well, she leaves us with just a
"feeling" and doesn't explain why.</span></font><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Let's see if she can "feel"
my points (in blue) just the same. Massoud</span></font><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Words from the voice of reason , I
feel MM makes some very *itelligent*, well thought out points here (note, he
disagrees with some of Obama's decisions & actions without deamonizing
him or resorting to stereotypically GOP name calling (Hitler, etc.) -
Julie<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><strong><b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Get Off Obama's Back ...second thoughts from Michael Moore </span></font><o:p></o:p></b></strong></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Saturday, October 10th, 2009 </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Friends, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard
on Obama in my letter yesterday congratulating him on his Nobel Prize.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>“Too Hard”?</span></font><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>Just imagine if Mr. Moore's wife was from an Afghani family who had
lost 20 of their children, brothers and sisters in one night, the night of
her sister's wedding due to the US bombing for let's say "a wrong
intelligence information". I wonder if Mrs. Moore still would think, her
husband is being "too hard" in having a mild criticism of President
Obama?</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> "No, I don't think so," I replied. I thought it
was important to remind him he's now conducting the two wars he's inherited. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>"Inherited"? What's that mean? Is the war against <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
right or wrong? When the anti-war activists say "Stop the War" do
they have a condition attached to it? Stop the war now - but if you have
inherited it from the last administration, then we understand that it is really
hard to stop and of course it is not your fault Mr. President! I think the
people on this list are familiar with the word "apologists" and their
pathetic characters. So I leave it at that.</span></font><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>"Yeah," she said, "but to tell him, 'Now earn it!'?
Give the guy a break -- this is a great day for him and for all of us."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>"Us" ? How that makes a great day for
the million uninsured, unemployed and broken people that are losing their
home, family and most of all the hope for a better future? </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>I went back and re-read what I had written. And I listened for far
too long yesterday to the right wing hate machine who did what they could to
crap all over Barack's big day. Did I -- and others on the left -- do the same?
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>Well, wait a minute Mr. Moore. Not so fast. First of all you are
not from the "Left". You are a "yes-man" democrat who
criticizes the system to only make it stronger and not to change it.</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> </span></font><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Remember once you've
asked us to vote for a military man General Wesley Clark to solve our problems.
Also please don't divide the political situation into two factions: Barack
Obama and those who hate him. This is not the reality. The right wing hate
isn't anything new and it will not go away with your mild reformist ideas. The
fact is -today- the right wing minority is in disarray. It doesn't
mean that they are not dangerous, on contrary because of this desperation;
they can be more harmful and vicious. But they are not the main
obstacle in ending the wars or achieving a decent healthcare system for
the American People. </span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>We are weary, weary of war. The trillions that will have gone to
these two wars have helped to bankrupt us as a nation -- financially and
morally. To think of all the good we could have done with all that money! Two
months of the War in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>
would pay for all the wells that need to be dug in the <st1:place w:st="on">Third
World</st1:place> for drinking water! Obama is moving too slow for most of us
-- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>Wow, here we go ... Please don't apologize for him, please don't
say BUT...</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>but he needs to know we are with him and we stand beside him as he
attempts to turn eight years of sheer madness around. Who could do that in nine
months? Superman? Thor? Mitch McConnell?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>Yes, in last 9 months more people have died (on both sides) in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
than in the last 19 months, but that is not important to Mr. and Mrs. Moore.
What is important is that the President knows that we (the apologists) are
behind him and will cheer him no matter what. After all we are not Afghanis, we
are Americans.</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Instead of waiting to see what the president is going to do, we
all need to be pro-active and push the agenda that we want to see enacted. What
keeps us from forming the same local groups we put together to get out the vote
last November? C'mon! We're the majority now -- the majority by a significant
margin! We call the shots -- and we need to tell this wimpy Congress to get
busy and do what we say -- or else. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>I don't know if Mr. Moore is kidding or he really
thinks "we call all the shots"? Does Mr. Moore believe that we, the
majority, are in control? What kind of majority is this? Why are the wishes and
policies of the fat insurance companies (who are the minorities) the law of
this land and the "majority" hands are tied? </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>All I ask of those who voted for Obama is to not pile on him too
quickly. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>Is another 9 months or 19 months sufficient time?... Is there any
deadline at all Mr. Moore? Do you want us just sit at home and politely call a
number, then wait and hope for the best results?</span></font><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Yes, make your voice heard (his phone number is 202-456-1414). But
don't abandon the best hope we've had in our lifetime for change. And for God's
sake, don't head to bummerville if he says or does something we don't like. Do
you ever see Republicans behave that way? I mean, the Right had 20 years of
Republican presidents and they still couldn't get prayer in the public schools,
or outlaw abortion, or initiate a flat tax or put our Social Security into the
stock market. They did a lot of damage, no doubt about that, but on the key
issues that the Christian Right fought for, they came up nearly empty handed.
No wonder they've been driven crazy lately. They'll never have it as good again
as they've had it since Reagan took office. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>This argument really is helping us a lot; it is good to know
that we are not in the Reagan era. Thank you Mr. Moore for these eye opening
facts about Republicans!</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>But -- do you ever see them looking all gloomy and defeated? No!
They keep on fighting! Every day. Our side? At the first sign of wavering, we
just pack up our toys and go home. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>I thought you wanted us to stay home and just call or have
meaningless gatherings about how bad the Republicans are. Is there more to
that, Mr. Moore, if so please tell us what should we do this weekend?</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>So, at least for this weekend, let us celebrate what people
elsewhere are celebrating -- that <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> now has a sane and smart
man in the White House, a man who truly wants a world at peace for his two
daughters. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>What are you talking about Mr. Moore?!! You are giving us the
guarantee of a peaceful future because there is a man in the White House that
wants "a world at peace for his two daughters" !!!! I suppose you are
sure that George W. Bush didn't want the same thing for his two
daughters". What twisted logic!</span></font><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Many, for the past couple days (yes, myself included), have
grumbled, "What has he done to earn this prize?" How 'bout this: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>The simple fact that he was elected was reason enough for him to
be the recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>Here we go again. You already told us there is
no "superman", but I bet you will find enough
reasons to make him a hero, so please tell us the reasons:</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Because on that day the murderous actions of the Bush/Cheney years
were totally and thoroughly rebuked. One man -- a man who opposed the War in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> from the
beginning -- offered to end the insanity. The world has stood by in utter
horror for the past eight years as they watched the descendants of <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>, Lincoln and
Jefferson light the fuse of our own self-destruction. We flipped off the
nations on this planet by abandoning <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kyoto</st1:place></st1:City>
and then proceeded to melt eight more years worth of the polar ice caps. We
invaded two nations that didn't attack us, failed to find the real <a
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style='mso-comment-continuation:2'>terrorists</span></a></span></font><span
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color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> and, in effect, ignited our own wave of terror. People all over
the world wondered if we had gone mad. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>Is there anymore...Mr. Moore?</span></font><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>And if all that wasn't enough, the outgoing Joker presided over
the worst global financial collapse since the Great Depression. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>OK, so you are telling us that we should appreciate Mr. Obama
for helping the bankrupted Financial Lords with our money to rise again
so they can keep applying the same failed policies with our
money again! I think you've really nailed this one Mr. Moore!</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>So, yeah, at precisely 11:00pm ET on November 4, 2008, Barack
Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. And the 66 million people who voted for him
won it, too. By the time he took the stage at midnight ET in the Grant Park
Historic Hippie Battlefield in downtown <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:City>,
billions of people around the globe were already breathing a huge sigh of
relief. It was as if, in that instant, one man did bring the promise of peace
to the world -- and most were ready to go wherever he wanted to go to achieve
that end. Never before had the election of one man made every other nation feel
like they had won, too. When you've got billions of people ready, willing and
able to join a cause like this, well, a prize in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Oslo</st1:place></st1:City> is the least that you deserve. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>Yes that was the historical victory. But Mr. Moore, the problem
with you is that you have been frozen on November 4, and it looks like you
don't realize that that date was 9 months ago. Since then people in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> and around
the world have witnessed many unpleasant events that put doubts in
their minds about the promise of "change" by Mr. Obama. This is
just a reality, people are re-evaluating.</span></font><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>One other thought. The Peace Prize historically has been given to
those who have worked to throw off the yoke of racial discrimination and
segregation (Martin Luther King, Jr., Desmond Tutu). I think the Nobel
committee, in awarding Obama the prize, was also rewarding the fact that
something profound had happened in a nation that was founded on racial
genocide, built on racist slavery, and held back for a hundred-plus years by
vestiges of hateful bigotry (which can still be found on display at teabagger
rallies and daily talk radio). The fact that this one man could cause this
seismic historical event to occur -- and to do so with such grace and humility,
never succumbing to the bait, but still not backing down (yes, he asked to be
sworn in as "Barack Hussein Obama"!) -- is more than reason enough he
should be in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oslo</st1:place></st1:City>
to meet the King on December 10. Maybe he could take us along with him. 'Cause
I also suspect the Nobel committee was tipping its hat to all of us -- we, the
American people, had conquered some of our racism and did the truly unexpected.
After seeing searing images of our black fellow citizens left to drown in New
Orleans -- and poor whites seeing their own treated no better than the black
man they had been raised to hate -- we had all seen enough. It was time for
change. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>Yes, you are still stuck on November 4.</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Thank you, Barack Obama, for giving us the opportunity to redeem
ourselves. Now for the tasks ahead. We need you to do all that you promised to
do. We need it. The world needs it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>Mr. Moore, you are thanking Mr. Obama because he is giving
us "the opportunity to redeem ourselves"? "REDEEM"
from what Mr. Moore? WWJ say about this?</span></font><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>My prediction for the future? You become the first *two-time*
winner of the Nobel Peace Prize! Yeah! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'>I'm sure by that time all "your redeemed people" will
dance with joy in the streets and celebrate a peaceful world! But the
Nobel Prizes' right wing nags are just distractions. People are smarter than
what you think. Massoud (that's Arabic for “happiness”).</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Fred (that's Norwegian for "Peace"),<br>
Michael Moore<br>
<a href="mailto:mmflint@aol.com" title="mailto:mmflint@aol.com">MMFlint@aol.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="http://www.michaelmoore.com/">MichaelMoore.com</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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