[lbo-talk] David Ehrenstein on Obama

[andie nachgeborenen]

Well, Obama _does_ lack the courage of his antiwar
convictions, which appeal to be genuine but too weak
to overcome his ambition. For the rest of the people
you blame, they are not being offered any candidates
who are wholeheartedly against the war at this point,
and maybe won't be. Oh, yes, I suppose they _could_
vote Green, if the Greens are on the ballot in their
state, or SP or SWP or even for Nader if he runs as an
independent. (_That_ worked out _so_ well in 2000! And
I speak as someone who did it.) Gutless of them not to
do it. Yoshie, I often think, reading you and Woj an
the cluelessness of the populace, of Brecht's bitter
little poem about the DDR regime which (bb said),
lacking confidence in the people, dissolved it and
elected a new one.

--- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com>
wrote:


> On 3/23/07, andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > without the courage of his convictions
> 
> Those who don't have courage of their convictions
> are not HRC, Obama,
> Rudy, McCaine, etc. but the "anti-war" American
> voters, roughly one
> half of the top half of the US population, who will
> never vote for
> anyone who is actually against the Iraq, Iran or any
> other war.  The
> bottom half of America are at present too beat up to
> bother one way or
> another.
> -- 
> Yoshie
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