[Sosfbay-discuss] Report from Candidates Forum in Saratoga

[Tian Harter]

The Libertarian Candidate was also there. His fliers were glossy card
stock, and three quarters of them were Libertarian Party boilerplate.

I asked what the candidates would do about our oil addiction.
Anna said "vote for green jobs." The Libertarian said "get the price
signals right in the marketplace." Carol said something, but I forgot
what. I was hoping one of them would say something like "I drive less
than I used to", but none of them did.

I asked what the candidates would do to make the political system more
interesting to more Americans. Anna Eshoo said "make campaign cycles
shorter." The Libertarian said "If I get elected Washington is going to
be a lot more interesting place." Carol said something like "impeaching
Bush would make politics much more interesting." I was hoping for maybe
"live your politics and everything gets more profoundly interesting"
but nobody went there.

The people in the crowd were much shyer than I'm used to. It was hard
to get conversations started. Maybe Carol gave away half a dozen of her
Behind Every Bush There is a Terrorist DVDs.

Tian

Brian Good wrote:
> 
> About 20 people attended.  Anna phoned in from Washington,
> the Republican didn't show up.  Tian was there.
> 
> Carol was poised, composed, confident, and inspiring.
> 
> Anna gave her usual blather--"talk, talk, talk, I did this, I did
> that, it's such a privilege to serve, we have such a great
> future... blah blah.... okay, is it safe to stop now, or will you
> notice that I didn't answer the question?"
> 
> Anna made claims that she has made significant contributions
> to the defense of the Constitution in her committees, and 50
> years from now when the docs are declassified we'll know
> what a hero she was. 
> 
> I submitted three questions.  They didn't read one asking Anna
> to defend her gutless complicity in Bush's 8-year war on the
> values of democracy, and they didn't read one asking Carol
> how (and if) she distances herself from anti-semitism in the
> 9/11 Truth movement. 
> 
> Afterwards, Carol tried to dismiss the antisemitism issue as
> mere semantics.  She needs a better answer than that.  Tian
> and I both pointed out that Carol's pitch ended with a her
> self-description as a truth-seeker when it should have ended
> with "Vote for me."  (I'd put it "Vote for me, and here's why.")
> 
> In safe races where there's no danger of unseating the liberal,
> voters are free to vote Green without fear of unintended
> consequences, and we should be aggressively going after
> 30,000 votes to show the Democrats that smug, hack, gutless
> politics are not acceptable. 
> 
> 
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