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founder the rebuild the drina
of what what we call that then chlorination organization upstate thank
you very much before why does it was the president obama the author of a new book
and the rebuild the drain
oddly enough uh... maimed rebuilding dot com the website dan johnson liners
welcome back
but here or great to have you with us so first of all
all halloween rebuild the dream
end and how did the policy prescriptions in your book comport with some of the
suggestions that the president was making in his brilliant speech today
well you know i think everybody moving in the right direction uh... but there
are wrote this book
uh... because i think i have a unique and point of view
and a grassroots outsider woohoo became a white house
insider and then became a grassroots outsider again i have covered three
hundred the committee to review
of where we eat at got off track with this movement for hope and change that
we had
really started building a two thousand three when bush invaded iraq knows
really on the first time you talk
your multiracial people wall genders and
speeches coming out a house in the owned by the millions protest in that war
no one great leader
jeopardy a great movement that we were building and alter them
howard dean phase and uh... alco requirements saving getting both people
put because here
all of that work
olympic katrina and the heartbreak of that
all that work led to the opportunity for obama run win
and um... uh... i directly after that history in the book
we don't forget their wedding took the part of greater to evolve are great at
may pepper to pop pop
but i also
remember a court of hope to heartbreaking like so many listed and i
want to make sent for the route it could we go from that mountaintop to that
valley so quickly
and the book
really try to get that one of three right
and therefore put into a position where we can start
fighting once again for the people change we believe in it and then meet
okay some assuming that the hope is the election of president obama two dozen
ages outbreak is the inability until bothered ministration to produce
he he he said he was going to fundamentally change america
to produce that fundamental change given
uh... in in my
my scenario given
ben nelson
than the sun but
on interest your take on and is that the the heartbreaking adjoining ours as
something else course or they clean the that that are precluded
we were able to edited a deal with maybe a bit the issue that we hope to hear
from climate change i haven't gotten a health representative to actually passed
a bill that could never even took a vote
doubly blessed card in the planet and or or or both in the plant doubt
alm all the way to do right for the tea party and uh...
the uh... loss of the speakership of nicotine welcome in the house
in two thousand and ten
and though
i would not agree that with the president sees a lot and at the edge of
the whole of cody kerr women
uh... that turned out that jump but having
some of the magnitude of government power what we thought was a hundred
personal what we need it cuz we had
of the house and senate and the white house
it turned out that was one
third but what we need it
we also need leading media operation and uh... uh... certificated and aggressive
equip far connote guy could put up and we needed a movement of people in the
streets
account of a compartment
the fact that we
i had not prioritize and having that media capacity
to talk to people on everyday tree pollen daily basis not just during the
campaign
and the fact that we did not
have dubbed deal
a grass roots
and alter our position in the streets deeply non-violent
in most countries when a right wing start to mars the left-wing start to
market and in this country for whatever reason we let the right wing of a
monopoly
on almost all prototype review those people i protest for two years
it had a terrible effect
right on movie
uh... mentality of everybody in washington d dot in the white house
requests well
is a fundamental reality behind that night i'm sure you're aware of it and i
know you're worth it and then johnson and that is that first of all the tea
party
was being largely funded in the background of the coke brothers though
those those three hundred fifty thousand dollar well-paid bosses don't appear out
of nowhere those those so you know two hundred seventy five thousand dollar a
day or an hour rental sound stages don't just drop out of the sky either you know
those those permits for
for big parks and
gigs in things that you know there's a lot of money went into this that they're
too big p_r_ firms los angeles new york that that were paid millions of dollars
*** armey a multi millionaire
uh... you know
and then one of the largest lobbyist on on on k_ street here in d_c_ funding you
know that the
uh... at what is americans for not america's for prosperity and you know
them promoting the cheaper so you had bad
and you had the fact that rupert
the rumor murdoch
lost i hate
dollars he lost a hundred million dollars a year for five years sean
hannity you know they they say air america failed right as a lost fourteen
million dollars over the period of six years
id foxnews lost five hundred million dollar have a billion dollars before
they made up their first perry but he was willing to spend a half a billion
dollars to get to the point where they made their first any
and build that right wing infrastructure nobody has done that on the left to the
best of my knowledge norton true and it worked we don't
have to recognize bill
is that the bills back for our available and yet we activist we did not know that
meanwhile you other than that i'm not at the white house were also a big part of
the progressive lefty from progressive
weapon
split into
uh... you know diehard stand for
of all bob all bamaca do no wrong
to put pointed standard
well this second album doc and perhaps you know let's have a lot about a
complain about it
and somewhere between go hoping too much
and moping too much
we forgot the bill that fight back and i run down the middle
and fred we're gonna walk with this white house when we can far ahead of
that when we can't and march again till we have to give yeah and that awak of a
independent movement
how to play in the book
uh... l_b_j_ lyndon baines johnson
did not believe it
civil rights movement
i would not have job we'll look ahead at a staple bombing ahead of state there
had to be an independent movement led by ella baker k to hammer
uh... buyer dressed in mp marketing
in the streets
to make him
and to create captivity for him
to do the great thing competitive present at a great president lee
function of the great movement
not the other way around right
and co
the book on the first of all baba official former
all bomb officials who write the book
uh... it came out today if available online at the apollo eleven
am about all the plagued him by both online available
any book form as well
the point of the book
like is back at the movement for hope and change
did not our will obama
i'd started well before he ever ran
and cannot ended just because even the white house we have to continue to build
a movement focused on economic solutions for the vast majority now work with the
president is beginning to move any more progressive populist direction on the
economy but here's what i want sure
listeners to be aware of
there are two fighters here not one
want by the people who come to an end of november
which is around the election but the reflected fight start in december though
lehman
dot com congress it will be meeting
about the bush tax cuts
that we we even while radar celebrating industry to obama's victory we can't go
beyond stabbing up through the rear gate law is roaring ahead
on victory question
which is a who was going to pay to clean up the mess with the financial elites
made of our country
if you're going to be though ninety nine percent but working people middle class
people the poor
or will the people who enjoy the party you at the party have to pay to clean up
their own national and and and and the one percent
have to finally put blowing up
and that might have been december not november
in december
and it we do not have to take conscious movement
that it's clear that we have to re-elect the president
and same time we re-energize an independent movement
we will have a victory in november and they've got a lot of will defeat in
december
yeah given that this party runs observers and this is they will not have
gone away in december then going on in that sense
amazing stan jones his new book rebuild the dream the website rebuild the dream
dot com the book just out today check it out there to your favorite book seller
of choice and ben jones thanks a lot for dropping by thank you very much always
great having on the program