[Peace] [Peace-discuss] Urge Champaign County Dems to back Keith Ellison for DNC

[Karen Aram]

I couldn’t disagree with Robert Naiman  more on this topic.
Glen Ford is more than just a nice man, he is very prescient, and right on target here as well as most things.

Ellison, maybe nice, and he fits the bill as a token for what the DNC needs or wants to spiff up their image. He’s Black, a Muslim, and articulate, okay he’s not a woman, but they tried that one recently….... However, he supports war, and will offer the continuity that the Democratic Party wants in respect to US foreign policy, and hegemony, just in case the Republicans under Trump don’t comply. Maybe McCain is an extreme example, in so far as rhetoric is concerned, but hey the Democrats have always used words of peace, and McCain is just the “bad” cop to Ellison’s (good) cop. It’s all about appearances.

On Nov 20, 2016, at 14:32, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

The question, and I mean this in all sincerity, is whether serious and decent people should care who becomes the head of the DNC; or whether, given the financial basis for the DP, it doesn't really matter in the larger bourgeois scheme of things.


On Sunday, November 20, 2016 3:14 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:


I like Glen Ford as an individual human being. He's had me on his radio show. He's a very nice, affable guy.

But as an authority on the topic at hand - and this piece is from three years ago - Glen Ford is not credible.

Anyone who thinks that there's not a dime's worth of difference between Ellison and McCain on war and peace is not a serious person. It's a free country. People can say whatever they want. You can be a Truther, a Birther, an anti-vaxxer. But, given that people have other things to do with their lives, people who are serious shouldn't waste time with such things. And, of course, people who support the Green Party are not meaningful authority on the affairs of progressive Democrats.

Here are the three serious candidates.

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/race-for-next-dnc-chair-is-between-americas-first-muslim-congressman-and-two-corporate-lobbyists/





Robert Naiman
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On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 2:58 PM, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com<mailto:carl at newsfromneptune.com>> wrote:
“Ellison is part of the pro-war Left, whose primary mission is make self-described liberals and leftists comfortable supporting imperial wars.”

http://www.blackagendareport. com/content/rep-keith-ellison- personification-phony-pro-war- %E2%80%9Cprogressive%E2%80%9D<http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/rep-keith-ellison-personification-phony-pro-war-%E2%80%9Cprogressive%E2%80%9D>

—CGE


On Nov 20, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

There is a central committee meeting on November 30. We'll be asking them to pass a resolution in support of Keith Ellison's candidacy to lead the DNC.

Here's our petition at MoveOn:

@ChampaignCoDems: Back @KeithEllison for #DNCChair
http://petitions.moveon.org/ sign/champaigncodems-back?r_ by=1135580<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__petitions.moveon.org_sign_champaigncodems-2Dback-3Fr-5Fby-3D1135580&d=DQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=tfHzwZBcTLEveiewRiq0OdhFmfRmlvZjpIBS0AUJ2v0&m=ldAG6OBO8q4pxnelPFN8Fic5NhIlw3sy-8VE3aACTWY&s=weoxkRkaz0gRR-g7_Ka1nZIn_Ne3N3R6AqR8LNqENAo&e=>

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