Comments on: Change in America, if you can keep it http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/11/06/journal/change-in-america-if-you-can-keep-it/ i am not qualified to say this Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tom P. http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/11/06/journal/change-in-america-if-you-can-keep-it/comment-page-1/#comment-9053 Tom P. Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:25:09 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=303#comment-9053 Yaman, do you still think that "for all those disillusioned or opposed to the political system, boycotting elections seems to be the best vote", like you wrote in your "democratic overthrow" piece? Yaman, do you still think that “for all those disillusioned or opposed to the political system, boycotting elections seems to be the best vote”, like you wrote in your “democratic overthrow” piece?

]]> By: Nadia http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/11/06/journal/change-in-america-if-you-can-keep-it/comment-page-1/#comment-9049 Nadia Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:22:46 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=303#comment-9049 Minus the school songs this actually reminds me of March 19, 2003. Minus the school songs this actually reminds me of March 19, 2003.

]]> By: Yael http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/11/06/journal/change-in-america-if-you-can-keep-it/comment-page-1/#comment-9035 Yael Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:08:24 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=303#comment-9035 You have no public spaces in this country! The west coast in particular. No spaces where "the public" can express its "us" in, and in which people can feel like they can shout and chant, because it is their space to preform in (in the Austin way). You need spaces that can be mundane on an everyday but which have both spatial and historic qualities that make them vessels for action. There is a reason the Rabin Square in tel aviv is a magnet for such action - even for the right wing. Ask your regime for public spaces! The right regime will not be afraid of them! You have no public spaces in this country! The west coast in particular.
No spaces where “the public” can express its “us” in, and in which people can feel like they can shout and chant, because it is their space to preform in (in the Austin way).
You need spaces that can be mundane on an everyday but which have both spatial and historic qualities that make them vessels for action. There is a reason the Rabin Square in tel aviv is a magnet for such action – even for the right wing.
Ask your regime for public spaces! The right regime will not be afraid of them!

]]> By: hayley http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/11/06/journal/change-in-america-if-you-can-keep-it/comment-page-1/#comment-9031 hayley Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:52:31 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=303#comment-9031 Yeah. Aside from opposing gay marriage, the plan seems maybe, er, too ambitious? Isn’t change supposed to be the theme? Withdrawal from Iraq-ok that’s good, (what about withdrawal form Afghanistan, intervention in Georgia, Israel) but more health coverage for the uninsured? Reimbursement for businesses “catastrophic costs” on the condition that it offset employee premiums? How much coverage does that actually leave you with? ps we have socialist medicine in Canada and benefit from it. But we're not plagued by the residuals of McCarthyism that would leave us paralyzed by an inane fear of communist conversion....:) kidding . No I’m not. Yeah. Aside from opposing gay marriage, the plan seems maybe, er, too ambitious? Isn’t change supposed to be the theme? Withdrawal from Iraq-ok that’s good, (what about withdrawal form Afghanistan, intervention in Georgia, Israel) but more health coverage for the uninsured? Reimbursement for businesses “catastrophic costs” on the condition that it offset employee premiums? How much coverage does that actually leave you with?

ps we have socialist medicine in Canada and benefit from it. But we’re not plagued by the residuals of McCarthyism that would leave us paralyzed by an inane fear of communist conversion….:) kidding . No I’m not.

]]> By: Tom P. http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/11/06/journal/change-in-america-if-you-can-keep-it/comment-page-1/#comment-9024 Tom P. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:48:25 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=303#comment-9024 here are some highlights of what he promised to do... http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/politics/2008/bios/view.bg?articleid=1063110 here are some highlights of what he promised to do…

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/politics/2008/bios/view.bg?articleid=1063110

]]> By: hayley http://www.yamansalahi.com/2008/11/06/journal/change-in-america-if-you-can-keep-it/comment-page-1/#comment-9023 hayley Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:55:22 +0000 http://www.yamansalahi.com/?p=303#comment-9023 i agree! after the incredible build up to the Democratic win, it feels like we're left waiting to see whether or not the Obama administration can, or will, live up to the disproportional expectations that we've created. questions: was this election more than a celebrity popularity contest? will the public become tired of the trendiness of a black president and turn on the admin at the first fork in the political road? will Obama meet the needs of the country and change the international image of the US even while millions of Americans have almost lessened his acheivements by "electing" him as the leader of their new wave of civil liberation? thx yaman! i agree!
after the incredible build up to the Democratic win, it feels like we’re left waiting to see whether or not the Obama administration can, or will, live up to the disproportional expectations that we’ve created.
questions: was this election more than a celebrity popularity contest? will the public become tired of the trendiness of a black president and turn on the admin at the first fork in the political road? will Obama meet the needs of the country and change the international image of the US even while millions of Americans have almost lessened his acheivements by “electing” him as the leader of their new wave of civil liberation?

thx yaman!

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