Clinton: Nobody's seen a Communist in years

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12. For all my frustration with Obama

I still think he's miles beyond Clinton -- although when I got to shake Bill's hand in '92, I did get the feeling his heart glowed as bright and warm as ET's. On the other hand, I saw Obama's grin from the back of a limo as he saw all us ordinary people walking under overpasses after a rally in Milwaukee, and *that* was like the sun coming out.

In any case, I look forward to the day when we realize Stalin was a right wing thug leading right wing thugs, because military dictatorship is by definition right wing, and true communists were just the idealist hippies of their day. Pete Seger, Woody Guthrie, James Joyce, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin ... not such a bad bunch, right?

What we need now though is neither a communist nor a DLC neo-liberal like Clinton or Obama -- just a good old fashioned Keynesian with a trick up his/her sleeve for getting Congress to spend some money and get the ball rolling again.

Maybe for 2016 we should all get together and force Paul Krugman to be president, whether he goes bitey badger on us or not.

Or any one of us could do it, picking up on Krugman's tongue in cheek suggestion, by cleverly and convincingly faking signs of an impending alien invasion. That would get spending going and fast, or it should, if the republicans don't block that too!