Kucinich and Edwards are gone. So now, with Super Tuesday just around the corner, what are Democrats and progressives we left with?
Well, with two candidates that have a lot in common in terms of their political views, quite frankly.
It’s true that Obama was agianst the Iraq war from the outset – and that’s no small thing, but for the most part, there are more similarities than differences between these two remaining Democratic candidates, from a pure policy standpoint.
On the other hand, there IS one notable difference between them and it’s one worth noting…one of them isn’t named “Clinton” or “Bush”.
With Democrats and Republicans ever-increasingly marching to the drums of their corporate masters, we need a candidate that is NOT a Republican (apologies to Ron Paul) and is NOT part of the Bush-Clinton royal family that has ruled (i.e., “screwed up”) America for almost two straight decades now…the one major candidate left whose campaign is NOT supported by big corporate dollars…Barack Hussein Obama!
This is a key point, because when the common people wanted change and looked for hope back in the 1990s, Bill Clinton gave us NAFTA and paved the way for the Walmart-run world that we live in today. And Hillary?
Please. Armed with Rupert Murdoch’s blood money, she goes from having a powerful vision for national health care for all Americans, to taking big bags of campaign money from the insurance company lobby to soften her stance on that very same issue…and we all know about her flip-flopping on the Iraq war based on public opinion.
And who are the Republicans throwing out there as an alternative? John McCain! Granted, this guy gets very mixed reviews from inside the GOP, but talk about flip-floppers!
First, he backs out of the McCain/Feingold bill that was designed to take soft, corporate money out of politics (so that he can take soft, corporate money to finance his own campaign!), THEN he relaxes his stance on the pro-torture policies of the Bush regime in Guantanamo Bay, just so he can appear as “tough on terror” by fellow hawks…I mean give me a break, I guy who was famously tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam flip-flopping on the issue of TORTURE?! What the F**K!?
So, with all of this in mind, The Straight Shooter has but one person left in the race that he can endorse and that is Barack Obama…because even though the jury is out on whether he is the candidate of true change – he has now, most certainly become the candidate of hope…so based on hope alone (for now) I give you this video that my brother sent me today…
Please vote.
Peace out.
-EK.
