"Shinola was shoe polish. Those who didn't know the difference wore filthy shoes. It has been said that those who wear smelly shoes arrive before they get there and linger long after they've gone. Therefore, a person not knowing the difference between excrement and shoe polish would be one very stupid person indeed. The word shit, then as now, meant shit, which is more than the crap on your lawn and your shoes, it's the shit that you think, talk and say and all the the shit you read, see and taste. And definitely the shit you blog."
http://paragraphica.blogspot.com/2005/07/difference-between-shit-and-shinola.html
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The following is a thread of 2 opinion posts in the Communist Party USA's Political Affairs Editor's Blog. The First post is by Joel Wendland, Managing Editor of Political Affairs A Marxist Monthly (Communist Party, USA)at: http://www.politicalaffairs.net.
Joel Wendland presents ten things Obama "can now do" after being awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. Below his commendable series of suggestions for President Obama, I posted a Reply and presented the less than encouraging facts of Mr Obama's first 10 months as President. Hope is essential to the human will, but totally unreasonable inflated hopes only lead to despair. I opt for a reasonable hope - chastened by reality. I do not think one can expect imperial USA to stand on its head and start The Golden Age because it has a new Caesar.
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http://paeditorsblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/10-things-nobel-peace-prize-laureate.html
"10 Things a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Can Do,"
by Joel Wendland, Saturday, Oct 10, 2009
PA Editors Blog: The personal opinions, views, thoughts, and ramblings of editors of Political Affairs magazine and its website PoliticalAffairs.net.
1. Stay committed to the timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.
2. Reject calls for a "surge" in Afghanistan, and draw up plans for eliminating military involvement there.
3. Move forward a realistic pace (sic) process in Israel and Palestine.
4. Engage multilaterally and unhypocritically (sic)to enforce the provisions of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, i.e., provide energy alternatives for countries seeking nuclear power and reduce and eliminate the nuclear weapons arsenals of the nuclear states (even the US).
5. Engage honestly and cooperatively with countries that do not share the ideological or political or economic values of the US capitalist class (e.g. Cuba, Venezuela, China, etc.).
6. Break with the free trade ideology and neoliberal trade policies that enforce conditions that are hostile to working families, farmers and the poor in any country.
7. Use every ounce of "political capital" to reform, as quickly as possible, modes of economic production to stop climate change through carbon reduction, investments in alternative energy resources, and promotion of a "green" economy.
8. Promote human rights globally, but refuse to use the issue as an excuse for unilateral intervention in other countries.
9. Promote democratic rights and civil rights over the private profit motives of capital.
10. Reject global appeals to end economic stimulus projects in favor of monetary, trade and public investment policies that create jobs as quickly as possible.
Posted by Joel
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http://paeditorsblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/10-things-nobel-peace-prize-laureate.html
"4 of the Things a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate has already done"
by Andy Taylor, Saturday, Oct 10, 2009
I agree with all of Joel's 10 initiatives for fundamental change. These aspirations for the future of the Obama presidency are very progressive. But given that the best predictor of a politician's future actions is best gauged by a politician's past actions, what would cause a rational global citizen to expect this conversion to a progressive agenda of this scope ?
Looking at Obama's actions (not aspirations) since November 08, he has done many political actions which give us some actual information.
(1) He continued the catastrophic indefinite Iraq occupation,
(2) he coerced the Iraqi govt. not to allow the popular referendum mandated by the Status of Forces Agreement,
(3) he ordered Pakistan to begin a full scale war in the NW part of that nation - which has put 2 million people on the run or in refugee camps,
and
(4) he escalated the war in Afghanistan (to this date) by 21,000 more US Troops.
Posted by Andrew
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