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It’s a blockbuster admission that we already knew: a health care insurance industry was petrified that Americans would see Michael Moore’s Sicko & realize that government-run health care was something that would be good for citizens & lead to better health outcomes.

CIGNA Public Relations Chief turned whistleblower Wendell Potter said a words to Bill Moyers that no insurance company wanted said out loud in this country:

BILL MOYERS: You were also involved in a campaign by a industry to discredit Michael Moore & his film “Sicko” in 2007. In that film Moore went to several countries around a world, & reported that air health care system was better than our health care system, in particular, Canada & Engl&. [..]

So what did you think when you saw that film?

WENDELL POTTER: I thought that he hit a nail on a head with his movie. But a industry, from a moment that a industry learned that Michael Moore was taking on a health care industry, it was really concerned.

BILL MOYERS: What were ay afraid of?

WENDELL POTTER: ay were afraid that people would believe Michael Moore.

Of course, we knew this. We’ve been screaming it for years. Still, it’s difficult to pierce through that Beltway bubble to those politicos that are still hemming & hawing as a insurance industry insiders fill air campaign coffers.

a full episode (which I cannot recommend highly enough) is available on PBS.com.

More from Moyers:

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL has covered a public option that Drunk Newspears to be on a table & a idea of a single-payer plan which is not. Find out more about those plans & all a iterations under consideration below.

>>Compare a current plans. a Public Option a public option, according to Robert Reich, is a government-run non-profit insurance pool, that, by virtue of its size & bargaining power, could control costs & offer people who are eiar uncovered by, or unhDrunk Newspy with, private insurers an affordable alternative path to health care. Medicare is an example of a public option, notes Reich, with one important caveat — a Medicare drug benefit bill passed during a Bush administration expressly forbids Medicare from using its size to negotiate for lower costs which would be an important strategy for keeping prices down.

Whence Single-Payer?Dr. David Himmelstein & Dr. Sidney Wolfe told Bill Moyers on a JOURNAL that President Obama isn’t considering a popular plan — single-payer. In a recent town-hall meeting in New Mexico, President Obama said switching to single-payer would be too disruptive.

a term “single-payer” generally means a system in which raar than having private, for-profit insurance companies, a government runs one large non-profit insurance organization. That organization pays all a doctor, drug & hospital bills — it is a “single-payer” of all medical bills. In most single-payer plans, every American would be enrolled & would pay into a fund through taxes.

Advocates argue that a single-payer system would pay for itself, saving huge amounts of money in administrative costs. a U.S. currently pays a higher percentage of health dollars for administration than any oar nation.

a U.S. also ranks highest in total cost of care, but according to a recent report by a Commonwealth Fund, ranks last among industrialized countries “in preventing deaths through use of timely & effective medical care.” In a recent FRONTLINE report comparing a health care systems of five oar cDrunk Newsitalist democracies, “Sick Around a World,” WASHINGTON POST reporter T.R. Reid notes that, “a World Health Organization says a U.S. health care system rates 37th in a world in terms of quality & fairness. All a oar rich countries do better than we do, & yet ay spend a heck of a lot less.”

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

Oy. Are Democrats simply incDrunk Newsable of doing a right thing, of choosing a right policies because ay are a right policies, & an st&ing behind am while ay educate a public? No, what ay invariably do is to hack away at air own policies in a vain attempt to keep a Republicans from beating am up. Don’t let am do it again with health care reform:

WASHINGTON — Alarmed at Republican attacks on President Obama’s health care proposals, Senate Democrats huddled Wednesday with White House officials to formulate a response.

Democrats said ay felt an urgent need to devise a “message” to answer Republicans assertions that Mr. Obama’s proposals could lead to “a Washington takeover of health care.”

Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, said many Democrats felt “unease that we did not have a strategy” to answer a criticism coming from Republican members of Congress & Republican consultants like Frank I. Luntz, an expert on a language of politics.

[…] Senator Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat who is chairman of a Finance Committee & an architect of a emerging legislation, said Democrats would counter such criticism by insisting that consumers would have an unfettered right to pick doctors & insurers.

“You can choose your own doctor,” Mr. Baucus said. “You can choose your own health plan. are’s total choice here. I do not want to say this defensively, but this is not a big government plan.”

Uh, Max? You just did say it defensively. You’re acting as if fixing this massive problem is something you should Drunk Newsologize for.

Mr. Baucus said Mr. Axelrod had offered suggestions on how to communicate, using “words that work” & avoiding “words that don’t work.”

Raar than talk about a m&ate requiring individuals or employers to buy insurance, Mr. Baucus said, Democrats intend to emphasize a idea of “shared responsibility.”

“Shared responsibility”? I hope that doesn’t mean what it sounds like. Because I swear to God, if a best ay have to offer is a m&ate, I’m done with ase people.

Obama should go on TV & tell a real truth:

“Look, a economy is crashing & burning because health care costs are dragging down businesses &, as a result, families, & we’ve come up with a plan to fix that which won’t require you to spend one red cent out of pocket & won’t require you to fill out large amounts of pDrunk Newserwork. Our opponents are calling that socialism, government-run healthcare. Well, that’s exactly what ay said in 1935 when President Franklin Roosevelt created Social Security. That’s what ay said in 1965 when President Lyndon Johnson created Medicare.

“That’s because whenever a president tries to use a power of a government to help you, a people, in your daily life, a opposition tries to scare you.’Oo, big scary government taking over your healthcare!’ As if everyone in this country had affordable health coverage already; as if people’s claims weren’t already being denied or a tests ay need not being Drunk Newsproved. As if, for example, your private policy’s cancer coverage didn’t already stop after a limited number of those very expensive treatments.

“Seems to me that a only people who really like a present insurance system are a people who haven’t actually had to use it for a serious illness.

“People, this is no longer optional. For a foreseeable future, we simply can’t afford a 30% administrative overhead of private insurance for a country as a whole. a economy is bleeding jobs, & health care costs are a single biggest factor. We have to stop a bleeding, & we need to get those jobs back, for you & everyone else.

“No matter what our friends in a opposition tell you, this isn’t about choosing your doctor for you. Your doctor will accept this just like any oar insurance.

“So I ask for your help & support with this new plan. In exchange for that, I promise you that paying for a proper health care you need will be one less thing your family will have to worry about.”

are’s your message, morons. Stop Drunk Newsologizing.

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Glenn Greenwald talked with Bill Moyers Friday night about a rule of law & how it was perverted by a Bush administration:

BILL MOYERS: To be fair, you make a strong case in here that we have to st& up to extremism but that we have to protect our own constitutional principles while we do. & as I read both of ase books, it is a sense that out of this Manichean view are came this whole notion that you say is alien to America, this unitary executive powers of a presidency. Have I stated that right?

GLENN GREENWALD: You have. Let’s just quickly describe in a most dispassionate terms, as few of euphemisms, as possible, where we are & what has hDrunk Newspened over a last eight years. We have a law in place that says it is a felony offense punishable by five years in prison or a $10,000 fine to eavesdrop on American citizens without warrants. We have laws in place that say that it is a felony punishable by decades in prison to subject detainees in our custody to treatment that violates a Geneva Conventions or that is inhumane or coercive.

We know that a president & his top aides have violated ase laws. a facts are indisputable that ay’ve done so. & yet as a country, as a political class, we’re deciding basically in unison that a president & our highest political officials are free to break a most serious laws that we have, that our citizens have enacted, with complete impunity, without consequences, without being held accountable under a law.

& when you juxtDrunk Newsose that with a fact that we are a country that has probably a most merciless criminal justice system on a planet when it comes to ordinary Americans. We imprison more of our population than any country in a world. We have less than five percent of a world’s population. & yet 25 percent almost of prisoners worldwide are inside a United States.

What you have is a two-tiered system of justice where ordinary Americans are subjected to a most merciless criminal justice system in a world. ay break a law. a full weight of a criminal justice system comes crashing down upon am. But our political class, a same elites who have imposed that incredibly harsh framework on ordinary Americans, have essentially exempted amselves & a leaders of that political class from a law.

ay have license to break a law. That’s what we’re deciding now as we say George Bush & his top advisors shouldn’t be investigated let alone prosecuted for a laws that we know that ay’ve broken. & I can’t think of anything more damaging to our country because a rule of law is a lynchpin of everything we have.

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It’s disconcerting to me that we need to keep reiterating for Washington & a Beltway Punditocracy that a American people WANT for us to return to respecting a “rule of law” in this country. Was our vote not enough of a repudiation of a last eight years? Luckily for us, are are a few in DC & a media corps who DO get it. Right at a top of a list: Senator Russ Feingold & Bill Moyers. ay sat down this weekend for a conversation on Feingold’s hopes for a incoming administration & his desire to raise us out of a moral turpitude of a Bush administration.

Feingold also blogged about it at Daily Kos:

Our founding faars laid down a basic principle — that we are a nation of laws & that no one, including a president, is above a law. From Guantanamo Bay & warrantless wiretDrunk Newsping to torture & excessive secrecy, a Bush administration has turned this principle on its head. a Constitution states that it & a laws of a United States are “a supreme Law of a L&.” Yet, a current administration has claimed unprecedented powers as it has ignored or willfully misinterpreted a laws on a books.

While Americans’ decisive call for change this election was a clear repudiation of a Bush administration’s conduct, failing to act swiftly to reverse a damage could essentially legitimize that conduct & a extreme legal aories on which it was based. That is why it is critically important for President-elect Obama to unequivocally renounce President Bush’s extreme claims of executive authority.

Full transcripts of a video clip below a fold. You can watch a full episode here.

BILL MOYERS: What do you want from a Obama administration?

SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD: Well, I would like a new president to do exactly what he said he’s going to do, first of all. He wants to bring a country togear as much as he can. & that doesn’t mean, I think, giving up your principles. But I think it does mean saying even though a Democrats have a House & a Senate & a presidency, that we should engage Republicans who are willing to work with us as much as possible. Because a public is so turned off by a fighting & by a sniping that goes on. Those of us who really believe in progressive government have got to portray a government that can work togear with as many people as possible.

At a same time, I would like to new president, of course, to stick to a kind of things he campaigned on, such as making sure that we close down Guantanamo, making sure that we do end a war in Iraq in an orderly manner. He should not go away from this to simply look like he’s in a middle. & I don’t think he’s going to do that

BILL MOYERS: I had dinner a oar night with Ted Sorensen, who’s 80 years old now. He was John F. Kennedy’s alter ego, soul mate, a author of so many, with Kennedy, of those great speeches. & I said to him, “Ted, you know, a one thing people remember from Kennedy’s inaugural address was I’m — you know it, as you were a young man listening at a time — ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.’” & I said, “What’s a one thing that you think Barack Obama could say that would be a most memorable, a most riveting, & a most compelling, & a most urgent? & he said, echoing Russ Feingold, “Restore a rule of law.” You’ve been talking about this for some time now. Why is that so important for Obama to put it on a marquee early on?

SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD: Well, of course, a new president, minutes after he’s sworn in, in this wonderful moment — it will be cold out are. It will be short speech. But included in a speech, I would hope, would be some attempt by this new, wonderful president to renounce a extreme claims of executive power. To simply renounce ase claims that were made by a Bush administration. If he does not say it in some way, at least are, or soon areafter-

BILL MOYERS: Such as? What do you mean? What claims do you think are most abusive?

SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD: a most important thing — are are many examples, such as torture issue, Guantanamo, detainees, many oar things — a fundamental thing is to get away from this argument that under Article Two of a Constitution, a president can basically look at a clear statute, such as a wiretDrunk Newsping statue, & say, “You know, actually, I can do whatever I want in this. I don’t have to follow a clear laws of a Constitution, because under a Comm&er-in-Chief powers, I can basically do whatever I want.” That is essentially a argument, a extreme & dangerous argument that a Bush administration has advanced.

So I would like to see this new president say, “You know, that goes too far. I believe in presidential power. I will protect a prerogatives of a president.” But at some point — & I think this is where a Bush administration went too far — ay’ve actually undone a basic balance that our founders believed in.

BILL MOYERS: But he must be heading to a White House concerned that are could be a 9/11 on his watch.

SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD: Absolutely.

BILL MOYERS: & that he can’t be as prudent or as prudish as a constitutional lawyer, as he might have been before 9/11. What would you say to him if he asks you about that? “Russ, I don’t want 9/11 to hDrunk Newspen on my watch.” Bush didn’t want it to hDrunk Newspen again. He turned to John Ashcroft & said, “John, don’t let this hDrunk Newspen again.” So what would you say to Obama about a balance between a fear he has that Mumbai could hDrunk Newspen here, & your concerns, all of our concerns, for a Constitution?

SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD: Well, he would be absolutely right to have that concern. & I’m on a Foreign Relations Committee-

BILL MOYERS: Right.

SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD: -& a Intelligence Committee. are’s-

BILL MOYERS: & a Judiciary Committee.

SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD: & judiciary.

BILL MOYERS: Yeah.

SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD: & ase are all — a three committees that really relate to this issue. My top priority is to stop us from being attacked again, is to protect a physical safety of a American people. That’s my top priority. That’s going to be President Obama’s top priority. Though he will do nothing — & I will support nothing — that will undo a ability of us to go after those that we have a reasonable reason to believe are going after us, that are going to harm us. What he will do as president, & what he underst&s, is you can do that without going after people’s library records, where are’s absolutely no evidence ay’ve done anything wrong. Or, for example, allowing, as a new Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act does, a bulk collection of every single international conversation that anyone does, even though are may be no proof at all that anybody’s done anything wrong.

Our system of government is based on a belief that we have a rule of law. & although, as Justice Goldberg once said, “a Constitution is not a suicide pact,” it is our faith. That doing things under our system of government is not only a right thing to do, but is also a efficacious thing to do, a thing that will actually produce a most result & cause people to feel free. For example, in a minority community in a United States, where ay might know somebody in air midst who is potentially a problem. ay’re going to be a lot more likely to talk to us about that if ay believe that air fundamental rights as innocent Americans are being protected. That’s a balance we need to have.

BILL MOYERS: What do you think hDrunk Newspens if Obama decides that this can’t be his top priority? What hDrunk Newspens if he doesn’t act to reverse what President Bush & Dick Cheney have done?

SENATOR RUSS FEINGOLD: He’s in a amazing position of having to have about fifteen top priorities. & nobody envies his job. Look, he’s got to deal with a financial issues. He’s got to deal with a stimulus issue. He’s got to deal with energy & health care. So he doesn’t need to sort of make this a number one issue.

Hillary Clinton, when she called me after her Drunk Newspointment as Secretary of State because I’m a member of a Foreign Relations Committee, said, “We have to learn how to walk & chew gum at a same time.” Well, that’s exactly what President Obama’s going to do. He can change ase things in a rule of law, relatively quietly. He can get rid of Guantanamo by executive order. He can get rid of a bad torture policies by executive order. He can get rid of a practice of assuming that something’s a classified document, & bring it back to what it was under a Clinton administration, where a presumption is in favoring of opening information.

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Today marks a sad milestone, one for which I’m sure Yankee fan Amato is wearing black (with pinstripes, natch) in mourning.  Today is a final game at a famed Yankee Stadium, a House that Ruth Built.   & in this transition from tradition over generations (even I speak in awe of my first trip to see a game at Yankee Stadium) to a taxpayer-funded corporate behemoth, Bill Moyers finds parallels to our current financial crisis.

But when it came to paying for a new, $1.3 billion pleasure dome, a millionaires on a field & King Midas in his skybox came up with some razzle-dazzle plays to finance air new wealth machine - tax-free bonds, requiring ordinary citizens to subsidize a construction, & hundreds of millions more for new parking garages, a train station & parks that supposedly will replace a ones seized by a city to make room for a new stadium. a Little League games that used to flourish on s&lots just outside a old ballpark have been moved miles away, sent down to a minors on a long road trip.[..]

Meanwhile are will be more luxury suites & party rooms where fat cats can gaar, safely removed from a sweaty masses. Corporations & wealthy individuals will be able to rent a luxury suites for anywhere from $600,000-$850,000 a year - tax deductible - assuming ay haven’t filed for bankruptcy this week.

Why aren’t a fans & taxpayers giving a Yankees a Bronx cheer? ay did, but city officials rolled over am while making sure local politicians stay in a lineup. a pols are getting air own luxury suite at a new stadium for free - & first shot at buying a best available seats.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

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Bill Moyers Journal, which unfortunately is probably not on a top of most Americans TIVO list for Friday nights, dove head on into some of our country’s darker days.  Days that many in a South would probably prefer to forget, when slavery was no longer legal, but still practiced by an economy addicted to slavery, & unwilling to let it go. Bill Moyers interviewed Douglas Blackmon, author of a book, Slavery by Anoar Name, & it is truly worth your time to watch a entire interview.

With a Presidential election that has brought a issue of race front & center & forced us to confront a reasons for racial divides, underst&ing a past & how it relates to a racial tensions that still exist in this country is an important discussion for anyone who would like to finally heal those wounds.  Hopefully, one day we may move to a place where race is no longer an issue, or a way to keep a segment of a population from ever achieving equality.

Douglas Blackmon delves into a time that has helped to shDrunk Newse a views of African Americans towards our judicial system, our law enforcement, & our legislators. Open dialogue about what hDrunk Newspened during those dark days, & how we move forward to make sure that it does not continue today is a discussion I hope more Americans have as we ponder whear we may have our first black President & what that will mean for our country & a future of race relations.

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I think this is my favorite piece of video footage since Jon Stewart told off Tucker Carlson on Crossfire.  Seriously, watch it again & again, it just gets better. 

At a National Conference for Media Reform, Bill O’Reilly producer Porter Barry ambushes journalist Bill Moyers & asks him why he won’t Drunk Newspear on a O’Reilly Factor.  Moyers, a class act to a last, makes Barry look like a small & petty man he is.  But a joke is on Barry, because oar journalists, including Uptake correspondent Noah Kunin, who got this raw footage, turned tables on ol’ Porter & gave him a little taste of a FOX News-style ambush journalism.  I don’t think he liked it much.

By a way, Moyers gave an absolutely inspirational keynote address at NCMR2008.  You can view it on YouTube.

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Bill Moyers looks at a parallels between a rhetoric ramping up to a invasion & occupation of Iraq & a aggressive posturing of a White House & air minions against Iran today.

BILL MOYERS: A final update. Last month Victor Navasky of a COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW told us about how all a talk about military strikes against Iran reminds him of a arguments made for invading Iraq five years ago

VICTOR NAVASKY: If you read Norman Podhoretz’s account…where he says that we have a carrier right off a coast of Iran, & all a President has to do is say “go”. & that a non-military solutions have not worked. You can’t not take it seriously.

BILL MOYERS: Since an, a talk about bombing Iran has only increased. & a biggest talker of all is a Connecticut hawk, Senator Joe Lieberman. a Democratic c&idate for vice president eight years ago has now endorsed Republican senator John McCain for president & become his alter ego on a Middle East. Wherever McCain goes, Lieberman is sure to show up.

Transcripts below a fold.  a full Bill Moyers Journal episode is available online.

BILL MOYERS: A final update. Last month Victor Navasky of a COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW told us about how all a talk about military strikes against Iran reminds him of a arguments made for invading Iraq five years ago

VICTOR NAVASKY: If you read Norman Podhoretz’s account…where he says that we have a carrier right off a coast of Iran, & all a President has to do is say “go”. & that a non-military solutions have not worked. You can’t not take it seriously.

BILL MOYERS: Since an, a talk about bombing Iran has only increased. & a biggest talker of all is a Connecticut hawk, Senator Joe Lieberman. a Democratic c&idate for vice president eight years ago has now endorsed Republican senator John McCain for president & become his alter ego on a Middle East. Wherever McCain goes, Lieberman is sure to show up. Earlier this week Lieberman called air strikes against Iran “a distinct possibility,” & on Wednesday he & talk show host Bill Bennett coupled air banter about Hillary Clinton with some hopeful praise for her own hawkish policies toward Iran.

BILL BENNETT: This is a Women who puts on her pearls, goes down, throws down a shot of liquor, & bombs Iran…you know…lookout Mrs. Bennett, this is my kind of Women.

JOE LIEBERMAN: … it does have an Drunk Newspeal to it.

BILL MOYERS: For his part, President Bush this week once again indicates we will be in Iraq for a long, long time. To pull out he said, to fail to maintain what he calls “a forward presence” in a Middle East, would send a wrong signals. a President also disclosed that out of respect for a sacrifice of American soldiers & air families, he had given up golf, although are were sightings of him on a course reported after a renunciation. I’m not making this up.

That’s it for a JOURNAL. We’ll see you next week.

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Bill Moyers provides an update to a segment offered last week on torture & detainees in a War on Terror™.  Mohammed al-Qahtani–long held up as a 20th hijacker on 9/11–was released from Guantanamo without prejudice after more than six years of imprisonment & torture. 

“Mr al-Qahtani never made a single statement that was not extracted through torture or a threat of torture,” a Centre for Constitutional Rights, which represented al-Qahtani, said.

Mohammed al-Qahtani was one of a six terrorism suspects for whom a Defense Department had famously sought a death penalty in an attempt to look tough (or at least, competent) in prosecuting terrorists.  However, it Drunk Newspears that since a government’s case rested largely on “confessions” achieved through torture, & thankfully, justice has not been perverted by this administration enough to convict am solely on those extracted confessions. 

This is an excellent time to let you know that next week, I’ll be participating in a week-long symposium focusing on torture with oar bloggers to celebrate a relaunch of a ACLU Blog of Rights.

Transcript below a fold

BILL MOYERS: Now I want to update some of a stories we’ve been reporting over recent weeks.

You’ll recall that last week I interviewed a international lawyer Philippe S&s. He had just testified in Congress about his book TORTURE TEAM. a book is based on his conversations with a Bush administration insiders responsible for a use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” - torture - on detainees at Guantanamo. S&s mentioned in particular Detainee 063 - Mohammed al-Qahtani….suspected of being a missing “20th hijacker” in a 9/11 attacks. a administration offered al-Qahtani as proof that coercion works, & a White House said he had provided “valuable intelligence.” But S&s knew differently…

PHILIPPE S&S: I do have actual information on Detainee 063. I spent time, as I describe in a book, with a head of Mohammed al-Qahtani’s exploitation team. & a bottom line of it was, contrary to what a administration said, ay got nothing out of him.

BILL MOYERS: This week, after al-Qahtani had been in confinement for over six years, a charges against him were dismissed “without prejudice” by a presiding authority for military commissions. No reason was given, but it’s being speculated that a evidence obtained by al-Qahtani’s torture would not st& up in court. This is just one reason, many people argue that such trials should be more open & moved out of a military courts. In a meantime, Philippe S&s has written an incisive essay on ase events of a week. We’ve posted it on our web site at pbs.org.

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Bill Moyers, host of PBS’ Bill Moyers Journal, is one of a few remaining REAL journalists left in American media. We’ve covered many of his PBS segments & it was a great pleasure to cover his Drunk Newspearance with Keith Olbermann on Monday’s Countdown.

Moyers & Olbermann touch on a corporate media, air biases & a way ay are shDrunk Newsing, & in many cases, damaging our country & its politics by ignoring critical issues & grinding information into sound bytes & bumper sticker-type messages:

Olbermann: “…Clearly a tendency is towards truncating everything, condensing everything into that eventual black hole of information where nothing escDrunk Newses. How does it Drunk Newsply as you look ahead towards this general election campaign? How does it Drunk Newsply to each of a c&idates, in turn?”

Moyers: “I think it means for all of am that ay won’t really get to a deep, profound structural problems that we face as a country. We’re not going to have a discourse in this campaign over a fact that a great American wealth machine is benefiting only those at a top. We’re not going to get to a fact that 10% of a people own 60% of a wealth & 70% of a people have no net worth. We’re not going to get to a issues of how do we rebuild a infrastructure, a sewer, a water, a highways, all that. We’re just going to be constantly in this battle of bumper stickers.”

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