Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Here He Comes To Save the Day - Mighty Mouse Is On the Way

John Edwards: On Issues of Race, War and Poverty in America, Silence is Betrayal – And Dreaming is Not Enough. Pretty boy Johnny Reid Edwards begins stumping for the Black vote (as if the votes aren't already counted for 2008).

Johnny (real name) covers it all. War, inequality, poverty, minimum wage, health care, housing, education, and that old time favorite – Edwards famous term, the two Americas - the haves and have-nots - as if all the political lying puppets in government haven't contributed to the dumbing, numbing, dividing and povertization of the middle and working class, in earnest, for the past 4 decades.

Johnny on Katrina : We saw Americans, largely divided by race, abandoned by their own government; a vivid depiction of the need for serious change to improve the lives of people living in poverty in this country. … And still, today, the situation is terrible. We must continue to demand accountability and press government leaders to do what's necessary to get hurricane-ravaged areas back on their feet. We should all continue to work together to ensure that America fully responds to the wake-up call delivered on Katrina's wind.

"Serious change"… Hmmm now how often have we heard that?

Black America managed to survive slavery's holocaust, Jim Crowe, Great Depression, foreign wars, KKK, segregation, State abuse, the Civil Rights movement -- but still needs the government to pull our wet ass into a trailer and call it improvement, change? It's the government, here to help you boy, again. Somebody needs a wake-up call.

Johnny on wages : This week, the House of Representatives finally voted to raise the federal minimum from $5.15 per hour to $7.25, pulling millions of Americans closer to a living wage.

Pulling millions CLOSER to a living wage? Not a wage you can live on … but close.

Edwards : Dr. King’s call to service and to action couldn’t be more appropriate today. Edwards says waiting is not enough and dreaming is not enough. He says "to solve these problems we’ve all got to be willing to go out and get our own hands dirty. To solve these problems, we’ve got to act."

What is meant by service, action, go get dirty hands, Edwards doesn't say exactly, other than vague mention of helping one another (on minimum wage?) and lending a hand (after clocking out from your second job).

You can bet Johnny Reid doesn't mean lock arms with him and march on Washington, D.C. demanding accountability from politicians so corrupt the only color they $ee is green.

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