i met obama on a flight to chicago last december. he seemed very
young, idealistic, and inexperienced, but a charming fellow,
nonetheless.
he has definitely alienated his supporters on the daily kos. certainly
his handlers are steering him away from the left of the party and more
toward the center, which realistically is where the majority of votes
are to be found.
remember what happened to mcgovern in 72, despite the fact that america
was against the war. i think the electorate wants the us out of iraq,
but they want to finish the job in afghanistan. if it means going into
the mountains bordering pakistan, and putting an end to the resurgence
of the taliban, americans want to get osama. i don't know how
realistic it is to fight in those mountains, but i expect it will come
to that once the troops pull out of iraq.
obama may make it on the ticket with hillary, or biden (if hillary
stumbles, which i doubt). dark horse richardson could conceivably gain
momentum and pass edwards. i like kucinich's platform, but he is too
far to the left to win the nomination, and a bit of a dweeb (his wife
is hot, though).
jlm
US presidential candidate Barack Obama has said he would order military
action against al-Qaeda in Pakistan without the consent of Pakistans
government.
Diplomacy first, last and always. War is the last recourse of a failed
negotiator. It is not the first option of anyone but
socially-maladapted cowboys.
We have had more than a bellyful of war and killing, and we are getting
tired of asshat politicians, who know they will never be personally
risking their lives, who seem so goddamned willing to put our boys and
girls into harms way at a whim.
Ive been keeping well away from the contenders races; I find all the
current candidates contemptible. Not because theyre horrible people,
but because many of them are elected officials now and seem to believe
they should spend the next two years not doing the jobs they were hired
to do so they can instead seek office elsewhere.
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