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yellojktBefore you make up you mind to re-elect President Obama, here’s what you’re voting for, according to Glenn Greenwald:
Yes, I’m willing to continue to have Muslim children slaughtered by covert drones and cluster bombs, and America’s minorities imprisoned by the hundreds of thousands for no good reason, and the CIA able to run rampant with no checks or transparency, and privacy eroded further by the unchecked Surveillance State, and American citizens targeted by the President for assassination with no due process, and whistleblowers threatened with life imprisonment for “espionage,” and the Fed able to dole out trillions to bankers in secret, and a substantially higher risk of war with Iran (fought by the U.S. or by Israel with U.S. support) in exchange for less severe cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement programs, the preservation of the Education and Energy Departments, more stringent environmental regulations, broader health care coverage, defense of reproductive rights for women, stronger enforcement of civil rights for America’s minorities, a President with no associations with racist views in a newsletter, and a more progressive Supreme Court.
The entire essay is worth reading. He spends a lot of time on the dangers of partisan loyalty and how that will only get worse as the election gets closer. I think that’s the biggest problem. The “It’s okay — it’s out team” phenomenon.
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I will have to read the Greenwald essay in pieces as it's a busy day today, but I will offer this as an intro to its first portion:–There are often candidates who advocate positions we like and also positions we don't like. What's going on now within the GOP is a case in point.–While party partisanship can pay a role in determining whether one will vote for a candidate who possesses some platforms we like, the candidate's positions we don't agree with can be huge.Gotta go. More later.
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" He spends a lot of time on the dangers of partisan loyalty and how that will only get worse as the election gets closer. I think that's the biggest problem."I can agree ethics that, but some of his stuff is pretty nutty.
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Well, it is the specific grant of authority to POTUS to declare you and me enemies of the state that I cannot swallow. That should have been fought and vetoed, if necessary.No R but Paul would oppose that. Gary Johnson will be the Libertarian candidate, and he will, presumably.My vote for BHO is now uncertain, again.
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The quote below is in full from Politico44 yesterday. I remember saying months ago over at the Plumline that Obama would "come home to mama" (his base) once the campaign heated up. He just signed something or other to speed up the green card process…………gee I wonder why that happened all of a sudden? Brooks thinks he more liberal than he thought, I don't. I like Greenwald sometimes and other times I think he goes overboard but he raises valid questions and concerns. I too am disturbed by the indefinite detention crap, so don't really know what to think anymore. I cannot vote for either a libertarian or a republican so…………………??Center-right New York Times columnist David Brooks opined a few months ago that President Obama, whom he once supported, was governing like a liberal.Today, Brooks doubled down, telling Laura Ingraham this morning that Obama is not only governing that way, he is that way — or at least more that way than Brooks once thought."I still like him and admire him personally, but he’s certainly more liberal than I thought he was,” Brooks said.“He's more liberal than he thinks he is. He thinks he’s just slightly center-left, but when you get down to his instincts, they’re pretty left. And his problem is that he can’t really act on them, because it would be political disaster. And so that means, I think right now he’s doing very little, proposing very little."
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"I cannot vote for either a libertarian or a republican so…………………??"Green?
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but I also don't put much stock in the "wasted vote" theory.
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I generally can vote however I want in CA as the Dem pretty much always wins………I've made many protest votes in the past, which is also rather pointless. Whatever, I'll see what's happening down ticket and then decide I guess. I've never sat out a Presidential election since I first voted in 1972. We couldn't vote until age 21 in those days.
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