> Michael Smith writes:
>
> <http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/>
>
>>
>> This "open letter" was signed by many Usual Suspects -- Tom Hayden,
>> Katha Pollitt, Cornel West, Doug Ireland, Michael Lerner. But then
>> there's my hero Noam Chomsky, too, and Doug Henwood. People who really
>> have better things to do with their time.
>>
>> We're doomed, mates, doomed.
>>
>
> I signed because it said "don't attack Iran!" It took about 30 seconds.
> It's an essentially meaningless gesture...
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Why apologize? Meaningless as compared to what? Michael Smith's Bolshevism
de salon? I"d be surprised if Chomsky, Fletcher, and others who signed have
any more illusions in Obama than you do. So why turn around and disavow
your own and their efforts to try to pressure him from the left using
whatever modest means, including petitions, are available to enlist public
support? Better for US leftists to just carp about him to each other in
cyberspace if he's elected? I'd be interested to learn what "better things"
MS did with his 30 seconds regarding the war threats against Iran.