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• Tuesday, August 5, 2008 09:16 AM

  @JCourt

  If Obama's a whore. What is MaCain? What's left on the sheets? Dog shit on the bottom of a shoe? I'd love to know.

  McCain's a whore too - and a worse one. So what? Does that make Obama's lies and multiple betrayals of his oath to uphold the Constitution somehow more acceptable?

  At what point is a vote for the lesser of two evils evil in itself? Just how bad does a candidate have to be before you decide that you simply can't stomach a vote for him or her? Where do you draw the line?

  I could have taken all sorts of crap from (and for) Obama. I was willing to close my eyes to a lot of things. But his acquiescence to the rape of the Constitution is not one of those things. Nor is his willingness to give in on MY right to privacy, on equal justice for the wealthy...and frankly, I just couldn't swallow the lie.

  Particularly because it was so totally unnecessary. He didn't have to do this. By giving in to the Republicans, by covering up for Bush and the telecoms, he empowered them - and it can only be because he WANTED to.

  He's one of them.

  Obama supporters will doubtless cry that poor Obama was forced into all his capitulations out of a spirit of compromise. And I'm unreasonable to insist that he be pure and true to my crazy, whacked-out far-left ideas. To which I can only reply that if the right to privacy and equal justice are crazy and whacked-out, then one of us is in the wrong party.

  I'm afraid it's me. Cue the howls and sneers that I'm throwing my vote away, if you like. But someone once said that the only vote that's wasted is one you don't believe in...and I don't believe in Obama any more. I'll find someone to vote for that I can be proud of.

  Then, when Obama and the Democrats give Bush and his thugs a complete pass on their crimes, and compromise away every amendment in the Bill of Rights except the 2nd, I will at least be able to look at the ruin of what was once a great democracy and whisper to my son "It's not my fault. I didn't vote for this!".

  —Peter Maranci Read Peter Maranci's other letters
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