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Fri Jan 23 2009
Obama Inauguration Celebration Santa Cruz Style
An Inauguration Day Celebration in downtown Santa Cruz
Agusto Cesar Sandino Segundo writes, "A cynical summary: On Tuesday Jan. 20th 2009, aka Inauguration Day, the newly sworn in Citizens in Chief's of the peoples republik celebrated the installation of the latest in a long series of puppets and front men for gangster capitalism aka de'mock'cracy Amerikkkan style. Although the day remains historic in the history of race relations in this nation, and for many this is an important victory in the civil and political rights struggle, it remains to be seen how much change really lies ahead despite all the rhetoric from this young president. While this commentator believes Prez Obama has more or less good intentions, the system he rose to power in is rotten to the core and will hinder his ability to deliver on his many promises. And so I remain cynically optimistic, or if you prefer, optimistically cynical. Only time and our commitment and actions will tell...." imc_photo.gif Read more and view photos
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