[Peace-discuss] "After Downing Street" on cloture

[C. G. Estabrook]

I agree that President Obama's doing nothing would be better than his killing 
Afghans and Pakistanis, as he's said he intends to do (and maybe Iranians too), 
but unfortunately if he were to sit in the Oval Office and sing "Kumbaya" all 
day, to the exclusion of any other activity, the war would still go on, 
US-guided neoliberalism would continue to exploit the world, etc.  (In fact, 
we've had something rather like that for most of eight years.)

We 'way overemphasize the character of the president as a determinant of USG 
policy.  (And therefore we attribute far too much importance to the quadrennial 
quadrille -- the pro forma exercise of installing a chief magistrate.) --CGE


E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> Carl,
> If only Obama would "do nothing" as President...
> 
> 
> C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>>     Dodd Stands Strong, Obama Cowers and Whimpers and Waffles
>>     Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2008-06-26 02:25.
>>
>> Only 15 Senators stood up for the 4th Amendment today. Obama took his 
>> now customary course of NOT voting at all, neither Yes nor No. Here's 
>> the roll call:
>> http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00158 
>>
>>
>> http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/