andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> --- John Lacny <jlacny at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > This is the kind of thing that reminds you of one of
> > the most disturbing
> > things about Clinton. It's very doubtful that he
> > actually believes some of
> > the stuff he says,
>
> Actually that is his speciality, isn't it? Knowing the
> better and doing the worse. And awful as he was he
> would be so vastly better than what we have got as to
> make all that seem sort of inbconsequential. It's very
> depressing.
I find this post depressing. What Clinton knows is that it is necessary to maintain u.s. world hegemony, by whatever means. Leave the term "evil" to the theologians. Clinton represents with every atom of his being interests which conflict with any decency in the lives of billions of people. And Bush's death count is still a lot lower than Clinton's.
Practically every fucking ruling-class institution, including all the metropolitan papers and all the TV networks are in support of u.s. military action in the mideast. It is sheer wishful thinking that this conflict would not have occurred sooner or later, regardless of who is in the White House. There is no chance whatever to hope for any amelioration of world or national conditions under any future u.s. administration except as it is forced to act either by military/diplomatic pressure from above and pressure from mass resistance at home.
Clinton & Bush both fit in nicely with the social circles of the owners of the Mannington Mine. Calling Clinton "better" in any conceivable way is willful blindness to the future.
We read in the paper and the radio tells
Us to raise our children to be miners as well.
Oh tell them how safe the mines are today
And to be like your daddy, bring home a big pay.
.................
So don't you believe them, my boy,
That story's a lie.
Remember the disaster at the Mannington mine
Where seventy-eight good men so uselessly died
Oh, don't follow your daddy to the Mannington mine.
How can God forgive you, you do know what you've done.
You've killed my husband, now you want my son.