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I feel my paranoia returning. Perhaps my friends who convinced me to cast my vote for Obama/Biden rather than for the Greens can convince me that I don't need to feel like a traitor for four more years.
I supported Obama during the primary since I felt that Clinton was too 'establishment.' After the primary, and Obama's sharp turn to the right, I found Cynthia McKinney, whose Green platform overlapped substantially with the Libertarians. Last minute, deferring to friends, and living in Florida, I voted for Obama. Please help!
If President Obama plans to hire the Clinton administration, why didn't we elect the real thing? The Clinton administration looks really good when looking back over the past eight years. A more rational look might not be so kind.
The Empire did just fine under W. J. Clinton. Contrary to some of the conversations Bush Elder had with Boris Yeltsin, Clinton's regime had no problem militarizing the vacuum left by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Bombs rained in Iraq and the Balkans, not to mention the aspirin factory in the Sudan. The architect, Madeline “if we got it let's use it” Albright, is back. Zbigniew Brzezinski the architect of the destruction of Afghanistan has been resurrected. Will the Obama “anti terrorist” team invade “slam some crappy little country against the wall” just to show the neocons that he hasn't strayed too far? Trinidad-Tobago might work here: I understand they have some tar pits that shouldn't fall into the hands of somebody or other.
Perhaps I'm too harsh. Perhaps a Secretary of State Clinton could work toward a foreign policy that won't necessitate a new war as soon as we can rebuild a military to wage one. Perhaps President Obama, with Rahm Emannual a combat veteran of the Israeli Army at his side, could finally demand that the Israeli government finally adhere to some of the UN demands. Please help me believe that maybe, just maybe, backstage, behind the hacks and vested interests, there might be some of the people we hoped would bring some really new ideas.
