[lbo-talk] My Fav Question From The Town Hall Debate

[Jenny Brown]

>[WS:] Presidential election is the absolutely last time to?provoke, let alone challenge voters with anything that is not trite or?conventional.? Read my signature line - the candidates must bark with the pack or be lost.? What seprates a good candidate from a bad one (from a progressive standpoint) is the appeal to the more?enlightened and compassionate feelings?(Obama) or?fear mongering and hate?instincts?(Mc Cain) of the populace.

The signature line suggests the problem is the US public.  The US public has a much better position on national health insurance than the Obama campaign does; sizable majorities are for it, even when misleadingly asked if they'd support increased taxes to pay for it.  (Misleading because taxes would replace the premiums they're currently paying.) 

The ad is surprisingly craven, and I thought I was past surprise in this campaign.  No-one is advocating 'government-run health care.' The phrase itself is a slur.  And if they were, it would be cheaper, not more expensive.


>If you want change, work to elect the candidate whose ear you will be more likely to have, wait after the?election and then start lobbying as if your life depended on it.
?Wojtek

Lobbying? WTF?  How about organizing?  Except if you believe people come in mobs "incapable of weighing ideas" then you probably think that's pointless and naive.

Jenny Brown