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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: American Spirit who wrote (20700)6/20/2003 2:41:08 AM
From: portage  Read Replies (2) of 89467
 
>>The Iraq War was timed to steal the November elections. In July prior to that Bush was plummeting in the polls amidst media
stories focusing on the crummy economy and Enron type scandals. Karl Rove said OK, let's start a war. Dick Morris said
"shed Iraqi blood now". Bush obeyed his advisors and right-wing experts. Nothing like a war to eclipse an election debate. >>

That's pretty much what happened. Don't forget the Fed pumping in the October market rally either.

Isn't it about time for history to rhyme on this one again ? :

Step back with me to the curtain-raiser, the founding convention of the People's Party – better known as the Populists – in 1892. The members were mainly cotton and wheat farmers from the recently
reconstructed South and the newly settled Great Plains, and they had come on hard, hard times, driven to the wall by falling prices for their crops on one hand and racking interest rates, freight charges and
supply costs on the other. This in the midst of a booming and growing industrial America. They were angry, and their platform – issued deliberately on the 4th of July – pulled no punches. "We meet," it
said, "in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin....Corruption dominates the ballot box, the [state] legislatures and the Congress and touches even the bench.....The
newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced....The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few."

Anybody else besides me getting ready for the rerun ?
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