[Sosfbay-discuss] Report from Candidates Forum in Saratoga

[Andrea Dorey]

As long as we support the Democrats by not running serious campaigns  
against them, they have no reason to answer anything.  And they never  
will.
Andrea

On Sep 10, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Tian Harter wrote:
> 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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