Comments on Mike Gravel's DNC Speech

Your DNC Winter speech
Submitted on Sun, 2007-02-04 05:47.
My Preliminary Reactions to the Speech by Mike Gravel – a Democratic Presidential Candidate for 2008 Election at the DNC Winter Meeting on February 3, 2007.
By © Professor Amechi Okolo, Ph.D.
Your DNC Winter speech on February 3, 2007, was great. It was the greatest speech I ever hear from a presidential candidate. I hope you are elected president because it is exactly people like you that this nation needs now. People like you who understand and are willing, bold and strong enough to talk about the historical injustices of this nation are what we need now. You talked about the shameful constitutional compromises that were designed to keep and maintain African slaves in their place as factors that stunted and ossified the democratic progression in the country and kept blacks and whites in chains ever since. Hence, your campaign slogan, “Let the People Decide” and your nationalinitiative.us projects are designed to get power back to the people. Currently Bush calls himself, “The Decider” not knowing that the people are the deciders in a democracy. Hopefully, Americans will reverse this anomaly soon. First, I will also need a DVD version of the speech for my students. They need to hear it. People will choose and prefer you over others as the campaign progresses and people hear your message. So please keep it up. It was very uplifting to know that they are sane, informed and bold people like you in the country. Do not worry about your age because as you suggested, we will always tell them that Washington needs adult supervision. For me, I am already your big fan because I have been sick and tired of the equivocations and timidity of the Democrats in the face of the roguery and criminalities of the Bush crowd. The way I see it, Bush has every right to be a crook and criminal and to be arrogant and nonchalant about it if such behaviors please him and serve his needs. I can understand that some people are made that way. My problem is when the Democrats are so scared and timid about him that they allow him behave as if he owns this country. In fact, I think that the Democrats must be ashamed of letting Bush run this country as if he is our feudal Lord. That is why I completely agree with you that anyone who voted for this war should be disqualified from running for the presidency. It is not enough for them to make excuses now because some of us knew then that it was all a ruse and that Bush was lying – and if they do not, then they do not have the foresight and the intellectual capacity to be our president. Again, I just love what I heard you say at the DNC Winter meeting. That was the first time I heard of you and you were very believable because you sounded real, authentic, empathic, caring and well informed. I must confess that I have been a great fan of Hillary Clinton even though I have some reservations about her position on the war. Then Obama Baraka came along and really jolted me. I was still weighing between Hillary and Obama when you came along and blew them off my chart because of the clarity, seriousness and dept of your position. I have also gone to your other website –nationalinitiatice.us – and I totally agree with it – our constitution is the most undemocratic of all democracies in the world. Bush has only fundamentally underscored the fascist nature of our system because there is no other democratic system that will tolerate such imperial, arrogant and incompetent warmonger as him. I will introduce your websites to my students because they cover some of some themes and issues we deal with in class – especially the issues of social justice.
You can also go to my blog – socialjustice.blogspot.com -- for more details.
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Well said, doctor.
Submitted by B Allen on Wed, 2007-02-07 01:41.
Couldn't have said it any better. He blew them off the charts.
n world of conflict, victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners - Camus
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