Chris Martinez father on Lawrence O'Donnell's program

[90-percent]

16. Do bad things happen for good reasons?

My first reaction is quite selfish; We now have an articulate man thrust in the middle of a desperate national dialog. We have a man free of the chains of lobbyists and the years of compromise in politics that leads to the current state of corrupt beyond repair. We now have a representative of the bottom 99% that can openly state the inconvenient truths of our current Oligarchy.

So we got lucky. There was no such person that rose up from the fraudulent mortgage crisis and other repercussions of the financial collapse of 2008. Same for 9-11, the Iraq war, BP oil spill and so on. OR maybe we did but I've forgotten their 15 minutes of fame?

But this poor man and poor family and all the other families forever broken from this didn't want this thrust on him. And didn't deserve it. His sons sounded like a beautiful person. It's so nice to hear about young men being praised simply for being nice. We are all so every man for himself in our society and it's a sucky way to be in all respects. We could all have enough to go around for everybody if young men like this ended up with their character still intact after becoming president of Goldman Sachs.

This man has my support, and like one of his most important points, I hope that manifests for me in taking some kind of action. DU posts don't cut it.

-90% jimmy