[Peace-discuss] Obama's child-killing & the 13th IL CD

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

'Tis much too real, sir.




On 05/18/12 4:09, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> A Republican correspondent writes,
>
> "The decision to find a replacement for Tim Johnson is due this 
> Saturday May 19th when 14 state GOP chairpeople get together & vote. 
> The inside line that I'm hearing is Erika Harold is the odds on 
> favorite for several reasons. She was the most prepared candidate at 
> the public forums. She is a young African-American woman which pretty 
> much overshadows David Gill's entire political base. In a recent radio 
> interview, Habeeb Habeeb discounted Kathy Wassink as a viable choice. 
> While both men have established connections within the 13th 
> Congressional District, I think Erika will win because in this 
> election cycle there is a strong anti-incumbent theme. Note the recent 
> upset victories by Deb Fischer in Nebraska & Richard Mourdock in 
> Indiana."
>
>
> Wassink is smart and good on her feet, but Harold is the most 
> corporate conservative of the four potential candidates - and she'd be 
> the hardest for the Democrats to beat.
>
> Given that Landslide David Gill will support Obama's mendacious 
> 'withdrawal' from Afghanistan and his criminal drone war, that means 
> that Congressman Johnson's consistent votes against war in the Mideast 
> - and his rather lonely challenge to Obama's wars, from Libya to 
> Pakistan - will come to an end in this CD, no matter who wins.
>
> Policy - in this case murder - is once again insulated from politics, 
> in an election between a feckless Democrat & a neocon Republican. Tim 
> Johnson was a rare and brief exception.
>
> --CGE
>
>
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