Letters to the Editor
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@ KStone
Thanks for your reply.
No, I'm not an avid Obama supporter. I can barely stomach, sometimes, how timid Obama is. I do admire Clinton for her tenacity and fire, but it's wholly misplaced on her part. Clinton's negatives ARE significant, and there is absolutely no doubt that if she's gets the nod, you CAN kiss the Dem's collective ass goodbye. That's just a simple fact.
The Dems are notorious for losing, notorious. What should have been a slam-dunk against a moron in 2000 and 2004 ended up as losses.
The problem with the Dems is that they are NOT LEFT wing enough, not populist enough. Clinton is more reactionary and centrist than Obama, and Obama himself, I fear, can be reigned in by the corporate lobbyists. Just look at health care. Neither one is proposing the only sane solution: a single-payer system. The pharmaceutical companies and the insurance companies made sure of that. Clinton was purchased in the '90s after her failure (and she was right back then about health care, I give her a ton of credit) but she unfortunately didn't evolve her thoughts into a single-payer system. Obama has completely caved in to the issue and the ruling class made sure HE wasn't going to propose anything too radical.
The other thing that bothers me about Obama is that he's kissing the ass of the Zionist vote in this country. Clinton's been doing that for a long while. What can you say about a party that tolerates the likes of Lieberman?
Both Obama and Clinton need to join forces and tell the American people how it is: You've been screwed by the two corporatist parties for over 40 years now, and we represent something new: single-payer healthcare, new trade deals that favor workers, a Manhattan project for our energy needs to wean us off oil, strengthening worker protections to unionize, investing in infrastructure, slashing the military budget by 66%, giving up foreign bases in far-away lands, etc. But, no, it won't happen.
So, in short, I'm giving the Dems one last chance in '08. After this campaign season, however, I'm not too hopeful. If Obama does win, I give him only a 20% chance to make any changes, because the lobbyists will tear him down and buy back Congress.