Re: TED RALL COLUMN: The Politics of Dopes (fwd)

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

I'd vote for him.

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:56:08 -0800 (PST)
 >
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 > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:30:03 EST
 > From: http://www.aol.com/~Tedrall
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 > Subject: TED RALL COLUMN: The Politics of Dopes
 > 
 > If I received a call tonight informing me that I needed to come to Washingt=
 > on
 > because I had somehow been selected president, I would be ready to work
 > tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. I already know who I'd choose as my secretar=
 > ies of
 > state, defense and other cabinet appointees. Guant=E1namo would be shut dow=
 > n. The
 > Department of Homeland Security would be abolished. We'd pull out of NAFTA
 > and the WTO. Torture would be banned; habeas corpus restored. I have tax re=
 > form
 > ready to go (soak corporations and the rich, companies that outsource U.S.
 > jobs and use offshore tax shelters would be barred from selling goods to U.=
 > S.
 > consumers), a detailed education policy (federal control would replace loca=
 > l
 > control and funding of public schools, colleges and universities would be
 > nationalized and made free) and a plan for healthcare (fully socialized). M=
 > y foreign
 > policy would go into effect at once: immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan =
 > and
 > Iraq, an address to the United Nations apologizing for the wars and the
 > torture and offering reparations, normalizing diplomatic relations with Ira=
 > n, North
 > Korea and Cuba, and cutting off aid to oppressive dictatorships.