[dar-list] Politically Speaking...

[Diane Mihalow]

Personally, I would have preferred it if Dar had waited to see who gets
the nomination.  I don't really know much about Mr. Obama's service to
society - he practically came out of nowhere just 3 years ago, and has
been campaigning for president for most of the time since then. I sense
that many in the media have been pushing this candidate on the public in
a way much like they did with George W. Bush.
I watched all of the debates, and although he did all right, I thought
he was overshadowed by many of the other candidates, including the last
girl standing.  That being said, I'd gladly take him over the
Republicans.

Diane


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dar-list-bounces+diane=jdassoc.com at folkserv.net] On Behalf Of
paul mepschen
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 5:12 PM
To: dar-list at folkserv.net
Subject: [dar-list] Politically Speaking...

With all due respect, but Dar supporting Obama's race is just horrible
news. In what way does she exactly think Obama is going to be an
alternative
at all?

There is an interesting piece in The Nation this week by Christopher
Hayes,
who says Obama is "the Left's best chance to, in Buchanan's immortal
phrasing, take back the bigger half of the country. It's a chance we
can't
pass up."  I guess Dar agrees.

The interesting thing about the piece is that it quietly sums up what is
wrong with progressives supporting Democrats like Obama, but then goes
on
supporting Obama **passionately**. Great! He says: "Ultimately [...] the
future judgments and actions of the candidates are unknowable, obscured
behind time's cloak. Who knew that the Bill Clinton of 1992 who
campaigned
with Nelson Mandela would later threaten to sanction South Africa when
it
passed a law allowing the production of low-cost generic AIDS drugs for
its
suffering population [...]".

The point is that this example is
exactly WHY it is horrible that Dar supports a centrist liberal like
Obama. This is
what Democrats do. They are part of the system, the do not change it.

Paul

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can
hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy
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