[Peace-discuss] Re: Protest of 100 Days panel

[Stuart Levy]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 08:47:36AM -0500, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Come on, Ron.  You know the problem is the extent to which the Democrats & 
> Obama have co-opted opposition to the wars that is AWARE's reason to exist. 
>  I was objecting to the fact that the panel seemed limited to the liberal 
> consensus (roughly, "Obama's doing the best he can but the war may be 
> costing too much")

If you think the panel will be saying anything like that,
I hope you attend and learn that it'll be far from what is said.

> while excluding principled objection to the war 
> (roughly, "Obama is committing international crime at least as aggressively 
> and violently as Bush").  The second opinion is heard on the Right and the 
> Left -- I gave some examples -- outside the liberal consensus.  And 
> apparently outside the panel.  --CGE
>
> Ron Szoke wrote:
>> Yeah, I want to second the objection that AWARE is stifling dissent & 
>> dishonestly restricting the range of allowable discussion by not including 
>> in the panel advocates of every possible opinion & point of view on Obama. 
>>  I estimate  that this will require at least 50 discussants, including 
>> those who hold that he is the Antichrist & those who insist he is the next 
>> Hitler.  (Bisexual, too.)  See:
>> Obama – Antichrist or Hitler? It’s so hard to know. 
>> <http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?
>> videoId=219482&title=unusual-suspect>
>> -- Ron
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