Lunchtime articles to ponder

• The Rape of the Middle Class Continues

  From The Blue Voice:
  “…Bush’s greatest vision of division is the gap between the very rich and the poor. He is doing everything in his power to eliminate the Middle Class in this country, and he’s winning.”

• Bush Gets an Earful at Coretta King’s Funeral

  From Balanced News Blog: “A day of eulogizing Coretta Scott King turned into a rare, in-person rebuke of President Bush, with a succession of civil rights and political leaders assailing White House policies as evidence that the dream of social and racial equality pursued by King and her slain husband is far from reality.”

• Soldier forced to pay $700 for body armor that failed to protect him from getting injured

  From The Immoral Minority: “The last time 1st Lt. William “Eddie” Rebrook IV saw his body armor, he was lying on a stretcher in Iraq, his arm shattered and covered in blood…”

• Outrage Fatigue Syndrome

  From The Blue Voice: “I am familiar with it, but have never been able to express its essence in one compact phrase, in other words – to give it a name…”

• I Have Fallen in Love Again

  From The Immoral Minority: “I have fallen in love with an idea. I am watching President Clinton speaking at the funeral of Coretta Scott King…”

• Can Blogs Revolutionize Progressive Politics?

  From AlterNet: “Winning an election does not, however, guarantee a radical change in the relations of power. Technology is only as revolutionary as the people who use it…”

[tags]Rape of the Middle Class,George Bush,Bill Clinton,Progressive political blogs[/tags]