Between elections, Mike Moore can sound pretty good.

The problem is, during the elections, he tells you to
go vote for Obama and the rest of the pro-wall street
Democrats.

I’ll start taking him seriously when he says he can’t
support Wall Street’s Democrats in 2012, and
apologizes for telling everyone to vote for Wall
Street’s candidate in 2008.  When Mike Moore and the
rest of the gullible left told us to vote for Wall
Street’s man in the 2008 elections, that hurt this
country badly.

If Ron Paul where to show up he would nail the vote.

The MSM would be sure not to report it.

Michael comes from the people - he’s the product of a lower-middle income family who has not yet used his income for profligate pleasure seeking.  He creates films on the basis of personal belief rather than commercial success.  He believes in the American way of life as it is supposed to work, not the way it has been suppressed by the ultra-wealthy, which includes our political “leaders”.  Ergo, he wanted Nader to win but understood that Ralph would never make it to that level because the system itself has been perverted. 

When a person works within the system and succeeds, it encourages nd motivates others to do the same - and thus provides a system correction.

Moore blew it when he ditched Nader. He has no integrity.  He spews some agreeable anti-corporation rhetoric but is also self aggrandizing.  His self effacement comes off as insincere. I couldnt watch anymore when it appeared he was about to plug his new book.

With that said, one of the videos of ‘occupy wallstreet’ on youtube showed a man who bashfully appreciated the celebrities dropping in to the event, as he knew it will be the most likely way of getting media coverage. Damned if you do, damned if you dont with these vacillating celebrities.

@ CJ

I was wondering if Michael Moore and Bill Maher believed Kerry would be any better than Obama.

I know that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but what the hell.

I listened; I was disturbed. Moore is a self-proclaimed capitalist, as he informed
Wolf Blitzer a couple years ago, when Blitzer “had” to bring it up, as mainstream
always “has” to, just in order to prove that they’re not interviewing crazy leftists
from anarchists to marxists. Thus Moore is interviewed by mainstream on rare
occasions and Bill Maher on what seems countless occasions.

These people are sensible enough as far they go, but they don’t go very far.
(Which is the main reason I tend to think the country right-wing at large, no
matter polling—when even Moore and Maher are believed raving radical leftists,
practically dangerous to our way of life. Moore gets death threats, though those
can’t then be claimed to represent the attitude of the entire right in general.
Still…that’s worth wondering about. Maher probably gets lots of death threats
too.)

But when Moore says he “begged Ralph” not to run in 04, I wondered if he was
kidding. Really, Michael? But you worked for Nader in 2000? Is the general idea
that Kerry would have got us out of wars? Sorry, not a chance, anymore than
Obama’s gotten us out, and besides, war isn’t the only thing that matters. More
generally, we’ve an immense defense establishment with countless bases
worldwide. Kerry would never have shut that down either.

One contributor here at Truthdig recently wrote of what would have been
different had McCain been elected? Not much as the contributor wrote.

Moore seems confused as to where he stands politically—he’s for the
establishment in large part but then complains when what he supports goes
wrong. As though the system in which he believes isn’t the culprit in cases of
which he doesn’t approve.

Having said all that, it really is an indicator of where most Americans stand
when they lose their minds while listening to Moore or upon seeing one of his
films.

I like Michael Moore, just wish he’d think deeper and then get his priorities
straight. No one can stand in two places at the time and flip-flopping is seldom
admirable. But this is a problem for and with liberalism in general.