[Peace-discuss] Obama

[Alfred Kagan]

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>Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 10:10:54 -0400
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>Well done, Carol!
>Best,
>Mark
>At 7:04 AM -0500 5/25/04, Carol Gulyas wrote:
>>This was sent to three papers yesterday:
>>
>>
>>As a librarian who worked hard to help Barack Obama win the 
>>primary, I was disgusted but not surprised to read  that the Jack 
>>Ryan campaign has hired Justin Warfel to stalk Illinois senator 
>>Barack Obama and record his every move and utterance, even his 
>>conversations with his wife.  This tactic could be dismissed as 
>>nothing more than the desperate flailing of a candidate who has no 
>>record to run on.   But we should recognize it as perfectly in 
>>character for Ryan,  who is so philosophically linked to Bush. Ryan 
>>supports the USA Patriot Act that would access patrons' library 
>>usage records without their even knowing about it, so isn't it 
>>perfectly in character for Ryan's campaign to stalk Obama and 
>>record even his most private moments?  Isn't this type of campaign 
>>tactic to be expected from the Dallas-based campaign consultant 
>>Scott Howell,  just hired by the Ryan campaign, who helped defeat 
>>Max Cleland, Senatorial candidate in Georgia?  Cleland, though he 
>>lost three limbs while serving in Viet Nam, was depicted in 
>>campaign ads with his face morphing into Osama bin Laden's.    Even 
>>more revealing was the comment by Kelly Phiel, Ryan's campaign 
>>manager, that Warfel's stalking is "normal."   Sure, it's normal. 
>>And the torture at Abu Graib was just a "fraternity prank." (Rush 
>>Limbaugh) Americans who value their civil liberties and whose moral 
>>compasses are fully functional would do well to monitor closely the 
>>Ryan campaign in the months to come.
>>
>>Carol Gulyas
>>Oak Park, Illinois


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