[Peace-discuss] Hedges: only a candidate who calls for an immediate end to the war...

[Tom Abram]

Another thing that infuriates me: the Green Party and Nader get
criticized for "spoiling" it for Gore, and get lectured that Gore
would have been the greenest president because of An Inconvenient
Truth.  Well, here's an inconvenient truth.  Gore was vice president
and did next to nothing to combat global warming (not to mention the
war complicity that Wayne and Neil brought up).  Why would someone
with poor credentials as an elected official be any different when
he's #1 instead of #2?  Ah, the audacity of hope.

Tom


On 8/1/08, Neil Parthun <lennybrucefan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I concur, Wayne.
>
> It was a Democratic President (and Al Gore as VP) that brought us the
> death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis due to sanctions and cruise
> missile/bombing strikes.
>
> The idea of lesser evilism is divisive (especially amongst the left),
> disingenuous and allows such flagrant crap like this to continue.
> Neither mainstream party is going to end the war.
>
> There is only this moment,
>
>       Neil
>
>   We absolutely have to refuse to attribute any kind of permanency to
> that which is simply because it is.
> [angela v. davis, 1944-]
>
> The point is, the only real tools we have are our eyes and our heads.
> Its not the act of seeing with our own eyes alone; its correctly
> comprehending what we see.
> [warren ellis, 1968-]