Samson's journal

Well, to have something to do during Obama's speech, I kept a window on my blog open and typed some thoughts. I knew I'd argue with him during most of the speech anyways, so I might as well try to listen closely and write instead of just having that go around in my head.

Reactions to Obama's speech.

A political strategy for dealing with the Democratic Party.

Today, the left appears powerless. The Democratic Party has moved to the right side of center-right. And in doing so it treats the votes of the left as something it can take for granted. It treats the left with outright contempt, referring to them as 'idiot liberals' when they don't realize there's a camera pointed at them.

Well, the one thing that is clear this week in Denver is that we no longer live in a democracy.

How could it possibly be a democracy, when the people are forbidden to talk with their political representatives? And that is clearly the message delivered by the surveillance cameras and the helicopters and the amazing numbers of police in riot gear. Our representatives have no interest in what we say, and they want us pushed as far away from them as possible. Our representatives don't want their lives interrupted by even a faint squeak of protest, thus the riot police have orders to keep any protesters out of sight.

Just because these words should always be said on this day. And the corporate media will stop at just acknowledging the right of the pursuit of happiness.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,
that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.