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]]> http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/06/the-notes-must-reads-for-thursday-june-23-2011/#comment-710371 Alan MacDonald Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:13:53 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/06/the-notes-must-reads-for-thursday-june-23-2011/#comment-710371 Toward the end of his speech tonight, Obama obviously felt the need to pathetically claim, "We stand not for empire" -- which is clearly an admission that he feels a need to emphasize and, without the slightest proof, reinforce this ridiculous claim that the US is not acting as a global Empire. As Shakespeare famously wrote of the human nature of the guilty "(S)he protesteth too much". So tonight, the ever smooth Obama, seems clearly to be protesting too much about an issue that a fast increasing number of Americans beyond Chomsky, Bacevich, Berman, Parenti, Kolko, Chalmers Johnson, Korten, Hedges, Harvey, Hardt, Wolin, Zinn, et al have known for years. That our former country is now the seminal part of a disguised global corporate/financial/militarist Empire, which hides behind the facade of its bought and paid for Two-Party "Vichy" sham of democratic government. Which means that today even the faux-Emperor himself seems to know that he has no clothes on, and that the global Empire that he fronts for is today becoming very naked to very many people here and abroad. So, tonight's speech by faux-Emperor/president, Obama, was very good news for all of us who know that our former and now captive country "stands precisely for Empire" -- although "we" certainly do not! Alan MacDonald Sanford, Maine Liberty & democracy over violent empire New America People's Party 2012 Toward the end of his speech tonight, Obama obviously felt the need to pathetically claim, “We stand not for empire” — which is clearly an admission that he feels a need to emphasize and, without the slightest proof, reinforce this ridiculous claim that the US is not acting as a global Empire.
As Shakespeare famously wrote of the human nature of the guilty “(S)he protesteth too much”.
So tonight, the ever smooth Obama, seems clearly to be protesting too much about an issue that a fast increasing number of Americans beyond Chomsky, Bacevich, Berman, Parenti, Kolko, Chalmers Johnson, Korten, Hedges, Harvey, Hardt, Wolin, Zinn, et al have known for years. That our former country is now the seminal part of a disguised global corporate/financial/militarist Empire, which hides behind the facade of its bought and paid for Two-Party “Vichy” sham of democratic government.
Which means that today even the faux-Emperor himself seems to know that he has no clothes on, and that the global Empire that he fronts for is today becoming very naked to very many people here and abroad.
So, tonight’s speech by faux-Emperor/president, Obama, was very good news for all of us who know that our former and now captive country “stands precisely for Empire” — although “we” certainly do not!
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine
Liberty & democracy
over
violent
empire
New America People’s Party 2012

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