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  • From: paxamicus AT earthlink.net
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Politics
  • Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:28:55 -0400

Well thank you for the synopsized version. I appreciate it. And I really did understand all along yours was not a resounding endorsement, just a lesser-of-evils measurement.

And I'm not in love with Obama because I think he can fix something. I am just less in love with partisan Republicans crafting policy for the next four years and beyond via the SCOTUS. I am under no delusions we're going to get out of anywhere there's a drop of oil left anytime soon.

Are you supporting (for lack of a better word) HRC as the VP because of the easy swing of voters, or because she might actually, I don't know, accomplish something in the slot?

I'd love to see her stay in the Senate. Maybe Nancy Pelosi could take a little vacation. I'd like to see Chris Dodd have a place in the mess, somewhere. And if John Edwards isn't Attorney General I am going to have a little cry.




Celia




On Jun 5, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:



I haven't changed my mind. There were a couple of times that I saw a remote
and unlikely reason to believe, but then McCain would wipe that out the next
day. At first he came out four square against a homedebtor/gambler bailout,
and then recanted. A few days ago I heard him deliver a brilliant foreign
policy speech, good delivery too, so good I didn't know who was speaking there for
a minute. But then the misbegotten coporatist followed that with a speech on
why Globalism was such a good idea.

There have only been brief, and I mean BRIEF, moments of thinking maybe I
should take another look. Nah. Nothing there.


As to the preference for a Dem, you poor deluded victims of liberal snake
oil poisoning! Obama is NOT going to withdraw from Iraq, at least not for two
or three years (unless it is a default withdrawal on our collapsing economy).

We are not in Peak Oil, the housing bubble aftermath, the currency and credit
crisis, and the food shortage because of Bush or his policies. We are there
because at every juncture of our miserable lives we've believed the next clown
in office is just going to make everything OK, no matter how illogical our
decisions and lifestyle. Bush is the reflection of our common proclivity, not
the cause of it.

So I'd prefer a Dem in the White House too, especially one that is falsely
percieved to be the antithesis of Bush. Then in the next couple of years as
things continue to deteriorate unabated, maybe, just maybe, it will begin to dawn
on people that our fault lies within ourselves and not our (political) stars
that we are underlings.

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