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Who Among Us Is Not At A Loss For Words? Tears Pour Out. Tears Of Joy. Tears Of Relief. A Stunning, Whopping Landslide Of Hope In A Time Of Deep Despair. In A Nation That Was Founded On Genocide And Then Built On The Backs Of Slaves, It Was An Unexpected Moment, Shocking In Its Simplicity: Barack Obama, A Good Man, A Black Man, Said He Would Bring Change To Washington, And The Majority Of The Country Liked That Idea.

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Who Among Us Is

Michael Moore

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Who Among Us Is Not At A Loss For Words? Tears Pour Out. Tears Of Joy. Tears Of Relief. A Stunning, Whopping Landslide Of Hope In A Time Of Deep Despair. In A Nation That Was Founded On Genocide And Then Built On The Backs Of Slaves, It Was An Unexpected Moment, Shocking In Its Simplicity: Barack Obama, A Good Man, A Black Man, Said He Would Bring Change To Washington, And The Majority Of The Country Liked That Idea.

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Every Night I Watch The Nightly News. It's Funded By The Pharmaceutical Companies. Virtually Every Ad Is A Drug Ad. They Get Their Say Every Night On The Nightly News Through Advertising.

If We Don't Participate In It, It Ceases To Be A Democracy. So Obama Will Rise Or Fall Based Not So Much On What He Does But On What We Do To Support Him.

Our Laws Demand That A Corporation Have A Fiduciary Responsibility With Shareholders To Maximize Profits. They Are Legally Required To Make As Much Money As Possible, Any Way Possible Within 'the Law.'

How Could A Guy Sitting In A Cave In Afghanistan, Have... Plotted So Perfectly The Hijacking Of Four Planes And Then Guaranteed That Three Of Them Would End Up Precisely On Their Targets?

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If I Were A Capitalist I Would Not Give My Employees Health Insurance With No Deductible, Which I Do, Including Dental, And Paid Pregnancy Leave. That's Not Called Capitalism, That's Called Being A Christian And Someone Who Believes In Democracy, So That Everyone Should Get A Fair Slice Of The Pie.

I Take Much Of The Attacks And The Criticism Toward Me As Being Very Class-based, But As Americans We Don't Like To Acknowledge That Reality.

I Assume Everything I'm Saying In An Email Or Saying On The Telephone Is Being Looked At.

If You Reduce The Guns And The Ammo, You'll Reduce The Murders.

I'm Very Blessed And Fortunate That People Want To Go See My Movies.

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Should Such An Ignorant People Lead The World? How Did It Come To This In The First Place? 82 Percent Of Us Don't Even Have A Passport! Just A Handful Can Speak A Language Other Than English.

In America, We Don't, In Daily Discourse, Use The Words 'capitalism' Or 'socialism.' They've Been Kind Of Nonexistent Words, I Would Say, Amongst The General Public.

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I'm Actually A Fairly Conservative Person. I Live A Very Conservative Lifestyle.

I'm A Religious Fanatic? Yes, I Am, Actually.

Religious Fanatics

I Think As A Filmmaker My First Contribution Would Just Be To Make A Good Movie That People Would Love To See And Leave The Theatre Charged, With A Sense Of Excitement.

All Religions Teach The Same Basic Thing, That You Have To Stand Up For Those That Are Considered The Worst.

The Media, The Corporations, The Politicians…have All Done Such A Good Job Of Scaring The American Public, It’s Come To The Point Where They Don’t Need To Give Any Reason At All.

I Certainly Believe That I Have No Right To Tell Another Couple Whether They Can Or Cannot Be Married.

Openness, Transparency - These Are Among The Few Weapons The Citizenry Has To Protect Itself From The Powerful And The Corrupt... And That Is The Best Thing That Wikileaks Has Done.

[librarians] Are Subversive. You Think They're Just Sitting There At The Desk, All Quiet And Everything. They're Like Plotting The Revolution, Man. I Wouldn't Mess With Them.

I Was Taught From A Very Early Age That It Was Probably The Most American Thing You Can Do Is To Question What's Going On And To Try To Fix Things That You See That Aren't Right. I Believed That As A Young Person, And I Believe That Today.

You Can't Regulate Child Labor. You Can't Regulate Slavery. Some Things Are Just Wrong.

It's All Part Of The Same Ball Of Wax, Right? The Oil Companies, Israel, Halliburton.

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