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<br>He says some good things, including the pithiest and most complete indictment of <br>Obama I've ever seen:<br><br>
<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">"A tool of Wall Street, a man who’s decriminalized
torture and is still complicit in it, a drone <br></font><BR><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">assassin, someone who’s
launched an unconstitutional war, supports kidnapping and <br></font><BR><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">indefinite
detention without trial, and has prosecuted more whistleblowers like
myself <br></font><BR><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">than all previous presidents put together. . . . <font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">I</font></font>t’s entirely appropriate to be enraged at <br><BR>Barack Obama. As I am. He
has often acted outrageously, not merely timidly or <br><BR>'disappointingly.' If impeachment were politically imaginable on
constitutional grounds, <br><BR>he’s earned it."<BR><br><BR>But ultimately he's arguing for the lesser evil. When the lesser evil is a war criminal,<BR>the Nuremberg Principles bar me from voting for him--even in a swing state. That <br><BR>would be complicity. If the Democrats had any integrity, there would have been a <br><BR>primary challenger--someone to say "I'm sorry, but we've gone down the wrong <br><BR>road, throwing away the rule of law, respect for the Constitution, peace, even simple <br><BR>human decency. It's got to stop." And then the Obama voters could at least say <br><BR>"Well I voted for the other last spring. I tried." But the Democrats didn't have <br><BR>that dialog, and instead they are corrupting the entire party by pretending that a <br><BR>blatant criminal is a worthy candidate. <br><BR><br><BR>I disagree when he says there's a difference between the R's and the D's. On the<BR>issues that concern me (militarism and empire, the Constitution and the rule of
law)<BR>
there is no difference. The agenda there is obviously bipartisan. I hate to be <br><BR>hard-hearted on the social issues, but I consider myself only realistic. I have worked<BR>among and with the poor and marginalized most of my adult life. I lived in my car<BR>for a year in NYC. I feel no obligation to vote on their behalf. There is not going to<BR>be any meaningful change in this country until they stand up and vote for themselves.<BR>I'm not going to do it for them, not so the Dems can brag about tossing a few <br><BR>crumbs to the dispossessed while they shovel a trillion a year at the militocracy. The<BR>lesser-evil choice is short-sighted. Maybe if the greater plutocrat like Romney wins <br><BR>instead of the lesser plutocrat, the 99% will wake up to their rage and their power and <br><BR>take over Congress in 2014. <br><BR><br><BR>Here's a cute 50-second video about the fake Coke/Pepsi dichotomy:<BR><font style="font-size: 10pt;" face="Tahoma" size="2"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmlOfvYpL10&list=UUCU5Ac7Vd7cqPk074nnKSTw&index=1&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmlOfvYpL10&list=UUCU5Ac7Vd7cqPk074nnKSTw&index=1&feature=plcp</a></font><BR>Catchy music, too.<BR><br><BR>While Ellsberg is urging swing-staters to vote Democratic, he neglects to even mention that in <br><BR>non-battleground states we should vote Third Party to register our disgust with the top options. <BR>He doesn't tell us if he's voting for Obama or Third Party. Why not? I'm amazed at how many <br><BR>supposedly intelligent Californians are so blinkered by their terror of a Romney win that they <br><BR>don't recognize that Obama doesn't even need their votes because his victory in California is <br><BR>assured. The Republicans foster a mirroring terror of an Obama win. It's good for business.<br><BR><br>The electoral college system provides a needed check and balance because the elections<BR>are administered and the votes tabulated state by state, allowing election fraud to be<BR>isolated. It also provides the unique opportunity for third parties to prosper in solidly red <br><BR>and blue states, an opportunity we need to seize while we still can.<BR><br><BR>We need to make substantial progress in 2014. For me it's been an eight-year war against <br><BR>evil, and I have to face up to the fact that no matter what happens this November, evil wins. <BR><br><BR>###<br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR>
<br><br><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:27:01 -0700<br>> From: gerrygras@earthlink.net<br>> To: sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<br>> Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Daniel Ellsberg: Defeat Romney<br>> <br>> <br>> Food for thought...<br>> <br>> I have a lot of respect for Daniel Ellsberg,<br>> the man who, at great personal risk, released<br>> the Pentagon Papers to the world.<br>> <br>> He has written an article<br>> "Defeat Romney, Without Illusions about Obama"<br>> "Advice to progressives in swing states, vote for reelection"<br>> <br>> and, according to Ellsberg, (paragraph 9 in this article),<br>> Chomsky is of similar mind.<br>> <br>> I personally am so angry at the Democrats for<br>> all they have done, that I can't see me voting<br>> for Obama, even if I was in a swing state.<br>> But I have had the luxury of not being in a swing<br>> state, so never really confronted the issue.<br>> <br>> I still think the lesser of two evils is still<br>> evil.<br>> <br>> I still think that continuing to vote the lesser<br>> of two evils is a good cop / bad cop trap.<br>> <br>> I still want IRV and/or PR.<br>> <br>> But out of respect for Ellsberg, and so that we<br>> are aware of the argument(s), I suggest that you<br>> read the article:<br>> <br>> "Defeat Romney, Without Illusions about Obama"<br>> "Advice to progressives in swing states, vote for reelection"<br>> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/18<br>> <br>> Please note that he did NOT say "Vote for Obama".<br>> <br>> I'd like to know what people think.<br>> <br>> And I'd also like to know what Greens in the swing<br>> states think.<br>> <br>> At times like this, I am grateful we have an electoral<br>> college, because we have the luxury of being in a non<br>> swing state. Oops, I take that back. Gore might have<br>> been elected in 2000 if we did not have an electoral<br>> college. And does anyone know what the polls say<br>> about the popular vote difference between Romney and<br>> Obama?<br>> <br>> Gerry<br>> <br>> P.S. Doesn't Ellsberg live in California? And Chomsky<br>> lives in Massachusetts. Both non swing states. So<br>> maybe they are like Michael Moore in 2000. He went to<br>> Florida to tell them to vote for Gore because Florida<br>> was a swing state.<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> sosfbay-discuss mailing list<br>> sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<br>> http://lists.cagreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss<br></div> </div></body>
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