[Peace-discuss] Kucinich says…

[Ricky Baldwin]

Is it worse to be a hypocrite and complicit, or a
outright liar who bears primary responsibility for a
racist murderous war?

It's certainly not a good choice.  And certainly the
anti-war movement ought to stick to its guns, so to
speak, and demand withdrawal and reparations,
whoever's in office (and regardless of attempts to
coopt).

And, personally, I think it makes a lot more sense to
vote for and encourage others to vote for the
candidate closest to our ideas: Kucinich.

I think I understand Carl's strategy of voting for Ron
Paul, however repugnant he may be, and it does make a
certain sense, as I mentioned before.  I do think
however, of the danger of adding prominence to a
candidate who combines opposition to the war with
blatant racism -- moreso by encouraging people to vote
for him than by just marking the one ballot.

And, I have to say, ultimately our votes are not
really organized and disciplined enough to vote with
any really clever stratems.  This leads me, once
again, to the conclusion that it's best to - first and
foremost - push an anti-war, anti-racist agenda, and -
secondarily - support the candidate with the best
platform.  

It's a way of standing up to be counted, just as
holding a sign at a demonstration is.  Neither, in and
of itself, will bring the war to a sudden and dramatic
close.  But they are straws to add to the camel's
back.

See you all on Saturday, 2-4 pm!

Ricky


--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> But the Democratic leaders refuse to take steps
> effectively to end the 
> war. They want to continue it, first because they
> agree with the overall 
> policy -- U.S. control of ME energy resources -- of
> which it is a part; 
> and second because it's a stick they can use to beat
> the Republicans 
> with, since a majority of Americans are opposed to
> the war. They're 
> hypocrites, as are their supporters who understand
> the situation. --CGE
> 
> 
> Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> >  “The democratic leaders can end this war now.
> They can go to president 
> > Bush and say Mr. Bush, we appropriated 97 billion
> dollars at the 
> > beginning of the summer for the war. That money
> can be used to bring the 
> > troops home and to set in motion and international
> security and 
> > peacekeeping force to stabilize Iraq. It does not
> take another vote. I 
> > want you to know that. The democratic leaders have
> the responsibility 
> > now to end the war now.”
> > 
> >  From
>
DemocracyNow!_______________________________________________
> _______________________________________________
> Peace-discuss mailing list
> Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>
http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace-discuss
> 



       
____________________________________________________________________________________
Choose the right car based on your needs.  Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool.
http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/