Letters to the Editor
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Shiral, yes McCain's a neocon
Shiral expressed surprise at McCain's war policy, but he's been a warhawk forever. He thinks we should have stayed in Vietnam. McCain wants the draft back, as do a lot of liberals--for socialist purposes--not military.
Shiral, your reasons for supporting Obama are a little misinformed, too. Obama showed no "guts" in his early opposition to the Iraq war. He was a member of the Ill. legislature and came from an anti-war district of Chicago. When he had his big chance to oppose it, speaking at the Democratic convention in 2004, Obama did not speak against the war. Once he got to Congress, he has voted along with Clinton, McCain, and most other congress critters for the war appropriations. Had he been Senator from NY in 2002-03--Obama would surely have voted to give the President war powers, no matter what he claims now.
As for Obama's race speech, it was a masterful political speech, which excused Wright, and in which Obama voiced jusifications used by the reparations campaign. Like "change", it appeared to have something for everyone. As for eloquence and delivery, Lenin and Hitler were the most effective political speakers of the twentieth century--and the century's greatest monsters.