[Peace-discuss] Jill Stein

Sat Apr 21 16:06:43 UTC 2012

Soooo... deny the election to Obama so Romney gets to pick the next Supreme Court justice??  Didn't folks learn their lesson from Bush-Gore which gave us Roberts and Alito??

--- On Wed, 4/18/12, David Johnson <dlj725 at hughes.net> wrote:

From: David Johnson <dlj725 at hughes.net>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Jill Stein
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Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 10:15 PM

February 14, 2012, 7:38 am 
Five Questions for Jill Stein of the Green Party
By MICHAEL D. 
SHEAR

Throughout 2012, The Caucus will occasionally pose five questions to 
individuals from across the political spectrum who have special insight into 
government, policy making and political combat. If there is someone you think 
should be interviewed, let us know in the comment section below, or send me an 
e-mail at michael.shear at nytimes.com.
This week’s subject is Jill Stein, a candidate for the Green 
Party’s presidential nomination. Ms. Stein, a former physician and teacher of 
internal medicine, writes and speaks about the connections between the 
environment and health. She ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 against Mitt 
Romney.
Q. Why are you running for president?
Michael Manning/Associated 
PressJill Stein, a Green Party candidate for 
president, during her campaign for governor of Massachusetts in 
2002.
A. We are in crisis and people are losing their jobs and 
their homes and their health care and affordable higher education and civil 
liberties. You name it, they are losing it. We have got a 1 percent that’s 
rolling in dough as much as ever and the political establishment is not fixing 
it. The establishment got us into this mess, in both parties. And that’s clear 
as day. Over 10 years, I have been a recalcitrant political challenger, a 
recurrent alternative that would not go away.
Q. Is your campaign trying to tap into the Occupy 
movement?

A. Occupy is very much a part of a 
broader move for democracy and economic and social justice. That is alive and 
well around the world. Just look at what is going on in Wisconsin which is 
directly linked to Occupy. It doesn’t have the name of Occupy, but they slept 
for three weeks in the statehouse. If that’s not Occupy, what is? The Occupy 
movement, beneath the surface, represents a political coming of age of a younger 
generation who have been on the receiving end of a generally exploitative 
economy. One of those groups to exploit has been young people. They have been 
exploited in education. The unemployment crisis hits them the hardest. They are 
bearing the burden for the climate disruptions that are coming down the 
pike.
Q. Does President 
Obama deserve credit for health care and other accomplishments?
A. Small time, sure. There are minor improvements. But on 
the other hand, he took single-payer off the table. He absolutely took a public 
option off the table. As we found on issue after issue — the war, reappointing 
George Bush’s secretary of defense, sticking to George Bush’s timeline on Iraq, 
expanding the war, expanding the drone wars all over the place. And how about 
bringing Wall Street in, the guys who created the problem, among his first 
appointments. It was pretty clear right then that this was going to be business 
as usual on steroids. We’re certainly not more secure, more equitable, more 
healthy or safer internationally, with what Obama has brought.
Q. What do you think of Mitt Romney?
A. He responds to his electorate. When he’s running in Salt 
Lake, he’s anti-abortion. When he’s running in Massachusetts, he’s pro-abortion. 
He responds to his electorate, broadly, except that he remains basically 
pro-business in a very narrow sense of the word — that is a pro-one-percent big, 
corporate multinational business. You know what, that’s not so different from 
the way Larry 
Summers and Tim 
Geithner are running the country under Barack Obama. When our governorship 
changed from Mitt Romney and it went directly to Deval 
Patrick, who is another poster child for progressive Democrats, no 
difference. Nothing detectable. Nothing changed in Massachusetts whatsoever.
Q. Is there a difference between the Democratic and 
Republican Parties?
A. You might look at one party as a rapidly sinking ship and 
say we’re going to vote for the other guy because the ship’s not going down so 
fast. We don’t like him but he’s not sinking the ship so fast. But the real 
question is, if both of those ships are heading for the bottom of the ocean, do 
you want to be on either of them? No. There’s no question about where those 
ships are heading if you are looking at the 
economy.

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