[Peace-discuss] Why we should vote (& much more) against Obama

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Probably what my Ucs. meant to say, although Bobby is an elderly baby: "I always speak the truth," as Lacan famously said.


On Oct 24, 2012, at 5:46 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" <ewj at pigsqq.org> wrote:

> My English is getting worse and worse.
> 
> Just this morning I read "shocking encomium" 
> as "shocking meconium".
> 
> There isn't any lesser evil in Obamney.
> 
> 
> On 10/25/12 1:18, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> 
>> This morning brings a pro-Obama piece from a former head of the Mossad (NYT 10/24) - showing that, against Republican charges, Obama's down with the fanatical government of Israel - and this shocking encomium from one of his intellectual bodyguards, Bobby Reich: 
>> 
>> "...I kept wishing Obama would take more credit for one of the most successful foreign policies of any administration in decades: not only finding and killing Osama bin Laden but also ridding the world of Libya’s Gaddafi without getting drawn into a war, imposing extraordinary economic hardship on Iran, isolating Syria..." <http://www.nationofchange.org/obama-commander-chief-romney-banal-bully-1351087653>.
>> 
>> Translation: "success" means 
>> 
>> (1) assassination ("multiply violating elementary norms of international law," as Chomsky said); 
>> 
>> (2) illegal war (contrary to the War Powers Act, as pointed out in a court suit by Congress members, including our own);
>> 
>> (3) immoral sanctions (similar to those imposed by Clinton on Iraq, which admittedly killed a half million children); and
>> 
>> (4) imposing civil war on an Iranian ally in association with Salafists (as the Carter administration did in Afghanistan)...   
>>  
>> It's enough to make one vote for Romney - if he didn't propose simply more of the same. 
>> 
>> Instead, it shows that the reversal of the shameful Obama military (and economic) polices will have to come extra-parliamentarily, like civil rights and anti-Vietnam war victories. 
>> 
>> Elections are a distraction - and meant to be, by the 1%. 
>> 
>> --CGE
>> 
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