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My email address is ErikOD@aol.com. My blog is All That Arises, to be found at allthatarises.blogspot.com. SHARE
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I'm a writer, living in Santa Barbara, CA. Formerly a lawyer, but now recovered. I suppose you'd say I'm a Lefty, but I'm not crazy about labels. I'm grossly disappointed in the state of American politics, American capitalism and consumerism; indeed, the state of America's place on the planet. I'm an intensely disaffected Obama supporter, having worked for his election for months, including traveling to a neighboring state to knock on doors on his behalf, only to look around the world two years later to find two ongoing wars, secret prisons, grinding poverty and injustice both in American and abroad. In other words, the same old state of affairs that I thought--really believed--would change with Obama's election and the election of a majority of Democrats in both houses of Congress. Now I see that I was tricked, taken in by the fine phrases of Obama and his handlers.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, December 6, 2010 Why no "bread riots" in America?
One wonders why Americans remain silent while their leaders wreck their nation.
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, November 12, 2010 Obama is "one and done," so now what?
Now that we realize Obama's going to be a one-term president, what's it to be, my fellow progressives? Two more years of frustration--or biting the bullet?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 13, 2010 A ditty about responsibility
A patch of doggerel about America's current plight, and who's to blame for it.
(49 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 29, 2010 From a "whining Progressive"
To Obama, Biden and Gibbs: I'll work for change when and if you do.