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<div>On Sep 2, 2012, at 3:52 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:</div>
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<p>Although I won't vote for either one of them, it's not at all clear to me whether a Romney or an Obama presidency would add more to the sum of human happiness, since they both profess the same murderous economic and military policies (for all their efforts
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<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#f81e1c">Obama's re-election cannot avoid being interpreted as approval of those policies (cf. Little Bush's "political capital" in 2004), while Romney's election might be seen as their rejection, despite his protestations.<br>
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I think not. If such be the case, it [Obama winning] will result from a confused guess by the voting electorate that given the alternatives, Romney and company would offer less than Obama, while following basically the same corporate and imperialistic policies
with perhaps even more fervor. And then there's the race factor, which should not be minimized. <br>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#f81e1c">Perhaps, like FDR in 1932, a victorious Romney may be driven to reverse his professed positions, if the popular demand is strong enough. Politics is in the streets, not the ballot box.</font></p>
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In ignorance, there is always room for hope.
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<div>--mkb</div>
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