[Peace-discuss] Kucinich says…

[C. G. Estabrook]

Ricky--

Ron Paul is certainly not a racist, blatant or otherwise. The two 
damning quotes from a newsletter that have been circulated by Paul's 
pro-war enemies in the Republican party were the work of a staff member, 
whom Paul subsequently fired.

Paul has made his own statements about racial matters -- e.g., 
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul381.html -- which are debatable but 
by no means racist.  They in fact are not that far from the arguments in 
what I think is one of the most important political books of the year, 
Walter Benn Michaels' *The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to 
Love Identity and Ignore Inequality*.  --CGE


Ricky Baldwin wrote:
> ...
> 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.
> ...
> 
> --- "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.”
>>>