Five-point Hammer-the-GOP Plan to Soften Things Up This Summer

UPDATED June 20, 2012
Having established the fact that Romneydoesn't get itPresident Obama can now pivot to present and future
The public already blames Bush for deficit and recession The public knows a fair tax system is necessary The public knows Romney is an empty suit
Cut to the Present and Future
Hammer the Congress for stalling things the American people want and need
Hammer the GOP for current behavior people don't appreciate
Hammer Romney for positions people don't likedistortions that reveal odd character traitsfor outright lies
Hammer Koch and Companyfor trying to buy the electionand to suppress the vote
Hammer Jobs HypoctisyBoehner for inactionMcConnell for nihilismTea Party GOP Congress
FINALLY
Propose the Grand BargainMake fair taxation central
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The past can be inferredThe present can be shownThe need can be deduced

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"Sto Perigiali" One of the Surpassingly Best Tunes Theodorakis Has Written

A Setting for a Poem "Denial" Beloved by the Greek People by the Nobel Prize Winning Poet Giorgos Seferis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhk0ckaCxDI
The remarkable video at the link above is of a performance of "Sto perigiali" Mario Frangoulis and Mikis Theodorakis in 2001.

Frangoulis and Theodorakis are joined by musicians, including two bouzouki players, and a very large audience that is completely familiar with the words. The audience joins in at Frangoulis' prompt.

This is my very favorite Theodorakis melody. Those who know Theodorakis only for his "Zorba" music are in for a treat. When I was in Athens in 1966, for a short period of study with Constantinos Doxiadis, I knew nothing of Theodorakis. But about five years later, my friend Irene Vassos sang "Sto perigiali" to us. I have never gotten the tune out of my mind.

Later, when Irene joined our group to form a travelling company performing "New Rain", I learned to pick out a …

Stephen C. Rose Bio

Stephen C. Rose (1936-) was born in New York City and raised there. He currently lives there. He was educated at Trinity, Exeter, Williams and Union Theological Seminary. He served in the Student Interracial Ministry in Nashville. He founded and edited the prize-winning Renewal Magazine in Chicago and studied with C. A. Doxiadis in Athens. His first books "The Grass Roots Church" and "Who's Killing The Church" established him as a prominent critic of American Protestantism and American religion. He was and remains a civil rights activist. He has interviewed and done in depth pieces on Saul Alinsky and Martin Luther King, Jr. He won awards for editorial courage and for two documentary films. He has written and published many songs and musical works including "We Are All Americans". During the late 90s and early 2000s he worked for UN agencies, most recently editing CHOICES Magazine at UNDP. Since 2000 he has written several books for distribution via K…

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