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• Thursday, February 7, 2008 05:43 AM

  My logic...

  @Liberty Belle:

  Agreed, McCain would be worse. As I said, I'll never vote Republican - ever (it's Atlanta214 who is thinking of supporting McCain). I'll admit that I might be a little more conflicted if I didn't know that my state would go Democratic even if the Democratic candidate were a small lump of green putty.

  But logic is exactly why I won't vote for Hillary - because if the Democratic Party keeps putting up candidates like her, they'll keep losing. And given her support for the Iraq war, and for the (possible) Iran war, and her refusal to ever admit that she was wrong about authorizing the war, and her opposition to single-payer health care, and her support of the bankruptcy bill, and my very strong suspicion that she will carry on the privacy-violating and government secrecy policies of the Bush Administration - hell, I wouldn't be surprised at all if she continued the black-ops CIA prison sites and torturing policies - well, there's no way my conscience would allow a vote for someone like that.

  Of course, if I lived in a state where my vote mattered, I'd be more anguished over this decision. But since my vote doesn't matter, I can try to send a message that candidates like Hillary simply won't do.

  We can do much better.

  America NEEDS much better leaders.

  And logic tells me that if we don't let the parties know that, they'll just keep foisting the same incompetent, corrupt hacks on us over and over. We've seen what that does to the country. It has to stop.

  —Peter Maranci Read Peter Maranci's other letters
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