Fringe

Very few things in life are as certain as political paradigms refusing to change absent massive, and sometimes violent, action by ordinary people in sustained grassroots efforts measured in decades rather than years. Electing Barack Obama didn't make that rule invalid. ...

“…go out and make me do it.”

This entry was tagged Alice Paul Barack Obama Bipartisan Congress Fringe Grassroots Progressive We The People and posted on January 24, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

"We have been told that we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant." - Barack Obama, New Hampshire Primary Concession Speech, January 8, 2008 So it was then and so it...

Preaching to a Choir of Cynics

This entry was tagged Apathy Barack Obama Change Fringe Partisan We The People and posted on January 22, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

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A funny thing happened on the way to our Change - everything stayed the same except our new president. The same tired rhetoric from both sides of the aisle from the same tired partisan warriors in the same shrill and...

mushroom clouds and smoking guns

This entry was tagged Barack Obama Bipartisan Change Congress Democratic Party Fringe Government Budgets Government Contracting Republican Party and posted on February 7, 2009 by Jason Everett Miller

I have come to the conclusion that even as pragmatic and reasonable people accomplish great things over the coming years of an Obama administration, all we will see and hear in the near future (both on- and off-line) will be...

the evolution won’t be televised

This entry was tagged Barack Obama Evolution Fringe Grassroots Thomas Paine Washington DC and posted on January 4, 2009 by Jason Everett Miller

Our politics has become a game of feigned outrage over purposeful misunderstandings of straightforward arguments made by someone completely different from yourself but no less convinced of their point of view. How's that for a high-calorie sentence?...

“Semantics? I’m always up for some antics.”

This entry was tagged Bipartisan Centrism Democratic Party Fringe Republican Party and posted on November 19, 2008 by Jason Everett Miller

I have noticed a strange tendency among some of the democratic party faithful following their recent victory. Their hearts are filled with long-held grievances and lingering suspicions resulting in an inability to move forward as one nation, working with republicans...

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