Popular Blog Highlights Mike's Noteworthy Appearance on 'Real Time'

What is your assumption that Mike is unaware of what is happening? Did you simply join the site just to say that? That's fine, but have a constructive argument to go along with your statements. Why don't you see carbon based fuels in our lifetime? How old are you, because unless you're going to die in the next 5 or so years, then I understand but other than that, I think you're greatly misinformed.

Before deciding to simply bash Mike Gravel's opinions and goals, back up your words please because you end up sounding like a conceited buttmunch.

Excuse my language.

 

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Jay,

Your conclusions must be the result of

1. your support for the occupation in Iraq and for the nation's dependence on oil and your chagrin that there are some "few" others who disagree with you and may manage somehow yet to defeat your wishes, or

2. your belief that you, poor sniveling worm that you are, can have no effect on national policy.

I urge you give up your dreams of dominion, if for no other reason than that they are unrealizable and doomed to failure if you are in position 1; or to look in the mirror every morning and repeat "I am somebody!" to yourself, and to cast out friends and acquaintances who reinforce your own self-hatred if you are in position 2.

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Times have changed. We are going to empower the American people. Let’s work together. I am tough. I’m not afraid. None of this politics as usual. Mike Gravel

When an off-duty DC-10 training captain heard the loud bang from the rear of the airplane he knew that there was trouble. So captain Dennis Fitch went to the flight deck to help and there found a crew struggling to keep their airplane under control. The center engine in the tail had failed catastrophically and sent shards of metal flying everywhere. Bad fortune resulted in that all three hydraulic lines (all independent systems) were severed in the tail section. This left the airplane with no means of flight control. Fortunately when the engine exploded they were in straight and level configuration!

Captain Fitch and the rest of the crew knew that in all likelihood their airplane would end up creating a rather large hole in some cornfield and send them all to a quick but violent end. While they still had an airplane that was flying, two good engines, and a clearheaded crew, there was no reason to give up.

And so Denny Fitch refused to give up. Fitch and the flight crew devised a means of turning the airplane using differential thrust control, something that was never done before except on paper.

They made it to the airport, managed a remarkably conventional approach (except fast and with a high rate of descent), touched down "on the numbers", but skewed right.  The hard hit on the runway broke the airframe into three pieces. In the end the crew (except for one flight attendant) survived as did more than half of the passengers.

Fitch, interviewed after the incident, shared something I will never forget and I ask that all readers of Mike's blog put this to memory:

"Your attitude determines your altitude. If you think you can't, you won't."

Fitch believed "with every fiber of my being" that the airplane would make it.

A true leader maintains a positive attitude and wisely ignores those who face challenges by giving up before they even try. Mike Gravel cannot single-handedly solve our problems, but collectively, WE CAN.  Mike is the leader with the wisdom, moral fiber, courage, and positive outlook who can help drive us forward to solving the serious problems our nation and world face.  Those who say "unlikely" or "it's impossible" or "not in our lifetime" represent defeatism.

I believe that we can do a great deal of good.  With the right national leader our accomplishments as a nation can be extraordinary.

Let's carry this attitude forward and inspire other Americans with a positive "can do" message and our positive "can do" candidate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_E._Fitch

 

jaypaul,

and i trust that you fully grasp

a.  the fact that we're spending billions to fund the war while most of new orleans is yet to be rebuilt and rehabilitated?

b.  the government can't do anything to ease the mortgage crisis where hundreds of thousands of american families are bound to lose their homes coz the government would rather pay war contractors' invoices

c.  the government has been heavily borrowing from the chinese goverment and raiding the social security fund just to bankroll the immoral iraq war

d. the war on iraq has been siphoning off attention from the homefront where there's a creeping recession that threathens to develop into full-blown depression . . .

Your right we cant get pull the troops out of Iraq nor get off carbon based fuels as long as we have people like you who blindly support the democratic or republican versions of Shrub.  Don't ever let anyone tell you, that you can't do something!  Did they really brainwash you and demorilize you to the point that you dont care about your country anymore?  Grow some backbone like our fore fathers before us and start supporting a leader who is willing support the ideals of true Americans. 

I saw Mike on MSNBC this morning and thought he did great. We can solve the problems he is talking about with a LEADER. That is the key if the leader of our country wants us off oil people will follow. Thats why we have LEADERS and FOLLOWERS. There is only one thing I really didn't like that Mike said, and that was on immigration. Of course one out of all those issues isn't bad =) Keep on Mike and I am happy to see MSNBC inviting you back for super tuesdays.

goodrich

Welcome to the "I've Been So Brainwashed By The Bush Administration, I Cannot See Beyond War And Occupation" Club.  I can most assuredly tell you that Mike Gravel thinks before he speaks, especially on the subject of troop withdrawal. The problem for many Americans is that 6+ years of being lied to by the Bush crime family have made a serious dent in their ability to think differently...to step outside the box...to imagine a world where the most powerful president thinks about peace every day instead of war. Just because the war-mongering neocons have set this perpetual war game in motion doesn't prevent an enlightened human being from coming along and calling the game. A vote for Mike Gravel means peace,  not war; aggressive diplomacy, not occupation. Gravel rocks!