[dar-list] Obama starting a war?

[paul mepschen]

 Leslie wrote:
>Wow- that's an off-the-wall comment. Where in the world would anyone get
>the idea that as President Obama would START a war?
>
>He has consistently been against war, and is the strongest anti-war
>candidate out there!
>
>Ah well, there are whacky people everywhere, even on folk-singers fan lists
I >guess!

I'm sorry, but this is just nonsense. People who actually taken the effort
to look at Obama's voting record have pointed it out. In July 2004 Obama
said: 'There's not that much difference between my position and George
Bush's position.'
He was talking about the war. As Matt Gonzales, a blogger on BeyondChron,
says: "Since taking office in January 2005 he [Obama] has voted to approve
every war appropriation the Republicans have put forward, totaling over $300
billion. He also voted to confirm Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State
despite her complicity in the Bush Administration's various false
justifications for going to war in Iraq. Why would he vote to make one of
the architects of "Operation Iraqi Liberation" the head of US foreign
policy? Curiously, he lacked the courage of 13 of his colleagues who voted
against her confirmation"

Gonzales also writes: " He wouldn't have his picture taken with San
Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom when visiting San Francisco for a fundraiser in
his honor because Obama was scared voters might think he supports gay
marriage (Newsom acknowledged this to Reuters on January 26, 2007 and former
Mayor Willie Brown admitted to the San Francisco Chronicle on February 5,
2008 that Obama told him he wanted to avoid Newsom for that reason.)"

You can read much more about Obama's real viewpoints, beyond the empty
rethoric that is probably going to make him president:
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5413

And this is the man Dar and Joan Baez are supporting. Instead of trying,
however difficult that may be, to support a genuine progressive candidate,
like Cynthia McKinney.

Paul