Yoshie, I'm glad that 7 months before the US electiosn you'e "confident" that Bush will be voted out. Of course, that's no thanks to people like you. Some of us in the red states aren't so confident. One month ago, your choice for President, Ralph Nader, spoke at a large community college campus here in Dallas, where he reassured conservatives he has several things in common with them (at least "4 major issues," he said), including "corporate pornography directed at children." This left me and some others scratching our heads. "Corporate pornography directed at children"--what does that mean, exactly?
If people want to "vote their conscience" and vote for whomever most closely echoes their own views, why not simply write themselves in for president of the US? (You know, a write-in campaign for yourself.) Surely only you most closely approximate your own views.
b
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>; <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 6:12 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Chomsky, Nader, & the Green Party
> I'm confident that Bush will be voted out (barring a
major terrorist
> attack on the mainland United States), and I'm
interested in making
> sure that John Kerry will not win by a landslide
and, more
> importantly, that organizers and activists in social
movements know
> what kind of Democratic president they will be
fighting against for
> four years: