[GPSCC-chat] Report from the University Ave. Fair

[fred Duperrault]

Thanks, Brian!

You are acting with the courage of your convictions
and with good knowledge of the issues.

Fred D.

P.S I, too,  must get busy doing some of that.


On Aug 26, 2012, at 9:27 PM, Brian Good wrote:

> There was a crafts faire downtown today in Palo Alto, I found by  
> accident, with a
> big Voter Registration for Obama tent, and life-sized cardboard  
> image of the
> president. People were getting their pictures taken with it.
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> So I went home and got better clothes and took my "The Audacity of  
> War Crimes"
> sign and stood in front of their tent.
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> A woman came by and said she was generally sympathetic to my point  
> of view but
> that though she was torn she felt that she ought to vote for Obama  
> on pragmatic
> grounds.  I said that if I were young like her I would probably feel  
> the same way,
> but I saw Germany 20 years after WWII and I saw what happens to  
> countries
> that think that international laws don't apply to them, and that I  
> was bound by the
> Nuremberg Principles not to be complicit in war crimes.
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> A couple of the Democrats came out from the tent to parley and the  
> first guy asked
> me if I thought it would be better under Romney than Obama.  I told  
> him that Karl
> Rove wants Obama re-elected, because if Romney were elected he would  
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> expected to 1) balance the budget, 2) win the war in Afghanistan, 3)  
> demonstrate
> that trickle-down works and 4) outlaw abortion, and he can't do  
> three of those things
> and he won't do #4 because that would kill redneck indignance.
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> The second guy listened quite respectfully for a long time while a  
> woman in American
> Indian jewelry who claimed to be African American ranted very  
> cogently.  When he
> finally got a chance he said he understood the problem the  
> Democratic left has and
> he thinks the party needs to find a way to address this.  I  
> suggested ranked-choice
> voting, pointing out that we could vote our conscience on ballots 1  
> and 2 and then
> vote pragmatically only on ballot 3 and then we could have it both  
> ways--voting to
> make a statement without throwing our votes away.
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> For the woman in Indian jewelry I gave references to "What's the  
> Matter With
> Kansas" and "Words that Work".  After I got there with my sign I  
> didn't see
> anybody getting their picture taken with the cardboard image.
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