Reply #11: From the book, page 136/137

[Jose Diablo]

When Roosevelt won the nomination, pledging a New Deal along
with the repeal of Prohibition, Butler wired him, "We salute your
nomination as one of the greatest blessings granted any nation in an hour
of desperate need." He offered to help F.D.R.'s campaign any way he
could, and Roosevelt asked him to get in touch with Democratic
campaign manager James A. Farley, or Roosevelt's chief secretary,
Louis Howe. Butler soon began stumping for F.D.R. In a speech before
the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen in New York on July 7
he warned that the government had to be rescued from "the clutches of
the greedy and dishonest":

"Today, with all our wealth, a deathly gloom hangs over us.
Today we appear to be divided. There has developed, through the past
few years, a new Tory class, a group that believes that the nation, its
resources and its man-power, was provided by the Almighty for its
own special use and profit.... On the other side is the great mass of the
American people who still believe in the Declaration of Independence
and in the Constitution of the United States.

This Tory group, through its wealth, its power and its
influence, has obtained a firm grip on our government, to the
detriment of our people and the well-being of our nation. We will
prove to the world that we meant what we said a century and a half
ago-that this government was instituted not only to secure to our
people the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but the
right to eat and to all our willing millions the right to work."

Plot to steal the White House

Been doing a lot of thinking about Clark. I've been somewhat reluctant about Clark due to his work setting-up that computer system to monitor and collect data in the war on terrorism.

But a retired military man could get a Democrat back in the WH and with a simple majority in each house, maybe the stuff from 8 years of Bu$h could be turned around. It will take longer than 8 years to do it though, to clear the damage I mean.

Clark isn't Butler though. Butler reminds me more of Patton, outspoken, blunt, and Clark is used to dealing with back-stabbing politicians and bureaucrats. I'd say Clark is more like Ike, a guy that can get it done. You know, Clark reminds me of a guy that has that ability to be able to tell someone to go to hell, and make the person think hell would be a nice place to go. Ever meet a person like that?

You know it wasn't the Democrats that started this 'class war'. It was the Republicans, but we will be the ones to finish it, in spades.

Chris Floyd, thanks for putting this up on the net, in book form, been reading it all morning, that Butler, you know he was quite a guy.