[lbo-talk] OP ED: Characterizing Bush

Chuck0 chuck at mutualaid.org
Fri May 16 13:18:17 PDT 2003


Staff wrote:


> Ninety percent of the voting African American community is with us. They
> wait for hours at some polls, sacrifice pay they can't afford to live
> without, brave police harassment, and vote using equipment that discards
> larger percentages of their vote than the equipment in the lily-white
> suburbs.
>
> We, my people, owe it to them to fight harder. It's time for the
> intellectuals, the liberals, the comfortable, to get up off their fat asses
> and fight like their freedom depended on it.
>
> Bush is amassing a gigantic war chest. He won't have to spend any money on
> the primaries, so all of this cash will be available for Big Media Lies in
> the week before the election. Ask yourself, if they can get away with lying
> about going to war with Iraq, which has resulted in the deaths of thousands
> and thousands of people, what are they going to feel free to say in these
> last second ads?

I'm fighting against both the Republicans and Democrats, who are just two sides of the same American capitalist coin.

I hope more people join me, instead of voting in another rich white guy who wears a tie with donkeys on it.

Let's not repeat 1992, when American progressives were told that we had to support Bill Clinton after 12 years of Reagan/Bush.

Fuck that. Fuck all leaders.

Chuck0



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