[Peace-discuss] Biden = business as usual...
n.dahlheim at mchsi.com
n.dahlheim at mchsi.com
Mon Aug 25 12:19:28 CDT 2008
Neil,
I think your analysis hits the mark completely. Talk to you later.
Best,
Nick
---------------------- Original Message: ---------------------
From: Neil Parthun <lennybrucefan at gmail.com>
To: C.G.Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu>
Cc: Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Biden = business as usual...
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:07:39 +0000
> With the talk about Biden, here's my opinion about Obama:
>
> I would appreciate it if someone could explain to me the morality of
> voting for Obama simply because we will have a 'haunting by the
> specter of McCain'.
>
> We here in Illinois have the knowledge that we can vote our
> conscience for any candidate because it is certain that Illinois will
> go to the Democratic Party. Looking nationally, only four states are
> in play -- New Mexico, Ohio, Florida and Colorado and if we want to
> quibble, then let's add a fifth: Virginia. One could very
> realistically state that it will be these states that will tip the
> election to either one of the imperialists. So, our prattling seems
> to be much adieu about nothing. But alas...
>
> How can we as progressives argue for an Obama presidency? Let's run
> down the stats:
>
> -Obama is for continued military presence in Iraq, despite Iraqi
> governmental forces asking us to GTFO.
> -Obama is for continued and increased military presence in
> Afghanistan, despite the masses in Afghanistan demanding us to GTFO.
> -Obama is for expanding our bombing to Pakistan in our trek to kill
> killers to prove that killing people is wrong.
> -Obama is for the for-profit health care system that has left 40+
> million people without access to adequate health care.
> -Obama is not for equal rights and equal opportunities for LGBTQA
> people, denying them equality of marriage. He even is washing his
> hands of pushing for federal protections by saying that it is an
> issue for individual states to handle.
> -Obama sold out civil liberties and privacy rights with his FISA vote
> -Obama is condoning the 'haterade' towards Russia
> -Obama is condoning the first strike missile systems in Poland and
> the Czech Republic
> -Obama speaks for the common man yet has a mansion and makes hundreds
> of thousands of dollars a year
>
> ...and I'd just be getting started.
>
> McCain and Obama are nominally different. Both are ultimately
> beholden to corporate interests and beholden to the policies that
> will benefit the elite. How can any self-described progressive vote
> for such a thing? We're not voting for the lesser of two evils.
> We're voting for the evil of lessers. This seems to be the act every
> four years. Instead of demanding the fundamental changes that we
> want, we end up sacrificing that in the name of pragmatism and
> fearmongering that a Republican administration would lead us down the
> path of destruction. What we get is more of the same that we've
> had. Plus, the last time I checked, we have three branches of
> government. The Democrats gave the authorization of force for the
> war, eviscerated civil liberties, continued funding both imperial
> ventures and are continuing the cadence for impending war with Iran
> and Russia. But it is much easier and more intellectually dishonest
> to put this all at the doorstep of the Big Bad Evil Republicans.
>
> McCain and Obama would bring us policies that would benefit the rich,
> squash gay rights, eviscerate civil liberties and increase war.
> Obama may be "change" but the only thing that will change is the name
> and appearance of the person implementing the policies for the US
> Empire.
>
> Its not the act of seeing with our own eyes alone; its correctly
> comprehending what we see,
>
> Neil
>
> We absolutely have to refuse to attribute any kind of permanency to
> that which is simply because it is.
> [angela v. davis, 1944-]
>
> Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
> Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as
> you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with
> too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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