> A large-scale organizing campaign. With a few keystrokes and mouseclicks,
> anyone can sign a petition, and no doubt an "open letter" of this sort is
> received, if it's noticed at all, with barely a shrug. If a million
> people descended on Denver for the Dem convention to call for no attack
> on Iran and withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, that might be
> something.
>
> The assumption of the petition that Obama is somehow antiwar is
> ludicrous, of course. At least it is to me; I'm guessing it isn't to all
> of the signers.
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Short of bringing a million people to Denver, which you know is not a
realistic possibility at this time, a petition campaign, however
unpromising, is at least better than nothing. If I were as dismissive of the
petition as you are, I would have politely declined to sign it but wished
it's organizers well - rather than doing the opposite. Your about-face,
sorry to say, seems to be a case of trying to run with the hare and hunt
with the hounds or, in more modern parlance, trying to work both sides of
the street.