Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower - original music video

ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER, 

original performance by Jimmy Hendrix, lyrics composed by Bob Dylan 



A lot of young men and women today feel alienated and apart from the political process.  They feel like their vote doesn't matter.  For that matter, a lot of their parents feel the same way.  The most recent SUPREME COURT decision - which everyone is going to hear a great deal about for at least the next two years - which came down last Wednesday effectively puts the government up for sale to the highest bidder - or so the very rich would have us believe.  The same day a public policy institute released figures which document the fact that discrepancy between the richest percent (who own 95 percent of everything) and the rest of us are at a record high since 1927.

George W. Bush would have had you believe a tip-toe-through-the-rose-garden scenario about the economy until one night you went to sleep and the world was fine and overnight Bush by Executive Order nationalized the nations eighteen largest banks.  Because to have not done so would have precipitated a global economic depression the likes of which we have never seen.



Likewise, O'Malley/Brown want you to believe that they have worked miracles and created jobs - with no strategy, no incentive, just tax, tax, tax, and a wing and a prayer.  It just isn't so.  You know it and I know it.  You know how  many of your friends and neighbors have been "offered" early retirements - something they didn't want and could ill afford. You know how many businesses in your neighborhood have folded up because they couldn't make a go of  it.  



A huge part of this problem is an utter failure of their leadership to see it as their responsibility to keep a watch on what is going on around them, to be sure that Maryland is competitive, and to make it appealing and attractive to young businesses and start-ups to come here.   The little they have done entails so much nonsensical red tape that it is just plain self-defeating.  It is very obvious that neither has really ever "bet the ranch" on his entrepreneurial idea - and neither has any appreciation for the pressures on you real small to medium sized businessman.



MARYLAND needs jobs.  Without businesses providing good jobs, it makes no difference what you set the minimum wage at.  And frankly I don't want my to auto engine reassembled by some mechanic higher than Hendrix was most of the time he played guitar!  Thank you anyway Mr. Lieutenant Governor.  On the other hand, I would like it if you could at least manage to oversee the Exchanges and create our own model within the allocated budget - just like Ct. did.  What is so special about Ct.?  Oh, I know -  they got all the Yale undergraduates to work on it as a collective competitive project.  Probably.  In any case, it doesn't take much imagination or hard work or even leadership ability to create an Exchange model if you really CARE what it is you are creating and the people whom you serve.



However there is nothing entrepreneurial in your resume at all.  And certainly nothing to suggest that you give anything more lip service to caring about all the people of Maryland - regardless of what race they are, what sexuality they are, what age, what ethnic background, what county they live, who they voted for, whether they like you, and whether they are willing to contribute to your campaign.  Your recent performance collecting kickbacks from the health care providers and industry for your campaign are a perfect example of how much you care.



You might as well withdraw from this race right now because you are not half the man that either Ganser or Mizeur would be!  Let alone Gansler's running mate, Jolene Ivey, who truly ought to put you to shame.



How dare you be so presumptuous as to ask the people of Maryland for a promotion based on the work you have performed so far.



You may be ideal military material but a real Governor, a real decision maker, someone who must split hairs when life and death decisions hang in the balance and who must truly be an experienced champion, that, Sir, you ain't!







VOTE GANSLER/IVEY

2J14 DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY

TUES JUNE 24



ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER

BECAUSE LIFE IS NOT "BUT A JOKE"

WE WERE WRONG.  YOUR VOTE DOES COUNT.

JIMMY HENDRIX AND HIS GENERATION SPAWNED A 

CULTURAL REVOLUTION THAT CHANGED THEWORLD.

YOU TOO CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.



ROCK THE VOTE.  ENGAGE.  PARTICIPATE.  THINK.

MAKE UP YOUROWN MIND.  BUTMOST OF ALL -

VOTE!