<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Thanks, Brian!</div><div><br></div><div>You are acting with the courage of your convictions</div><div>and with good knowledge of the issues. </div><div><br></div><div>Fred D.</div><div><br></div><div>P.S I, too, must get busy doing some of that.</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Aug 26, 2012, at 9:27 PM, Brian Good wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr">There was a crafts faire downtown today in Palo Alto, I found by accident, with a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>big Voter Registration for Obama tent, and life-sized cardboard image of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>president. People were getting their pictures taken with it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>So I went home and got better clothes and took my "The Audacity of War Crimes"<br>sign and stood in front of their tent. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>A woman came by and said she was generally sympathetic to my point of view but<br>that though she was torn she felt that she ought to vote for Obama on pragmatic<br>grounds. I said that if I were young like her I would probably feel the same way,<br>but I saw Germany 20 years after WWII and I saw what happens to countries<br>that think that international laws don't apply to them, and that I was bound by the<br>Nuremberg Principles not to be complicit in war crimes.<br><br>A couple of the Democrats came out from the tent to parley and the first guy asked<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>me if I thought it would be better under Romney than Obama. I told him that Karl<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Rove wants Obama re-elected, because if Romney were elected he would be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>expected to 1) balance the budget, 2) win the war in Afghanistan, 3) demonstrate<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>that trickle-down works and 4) outlaw abortion, and he can't do three of those things<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>and he won't do #4 because that would kill redneck indignance.<br><br>The second guy listened quite respectfully for a long time while a woman in American<br>Indian jewelry who claimed to be African American ranted very cogently. When he<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>finally got a chance he said he understood the problem the Democratic left has and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>he thinks the party needs to find a way to address this. I suggested ranked-choice<br>voting, pointing out that we could vote our conscience on ballots 1 and 2 and then<br>vote pragmatically only on ballot 3 and then we could have it both ways--voting to<br>make a statement without throwing our votes away.<br><br>For the woman in Indian jewelry I gave references to "What's the Matter With<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Kansas" and "Words that Work". After I got there with my sign I didn't see<br>anybody getting their picture taken with the cardboard image.<br><br>Brian<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>sosfbay-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org">sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss">http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>