Reply #9: My first two choices for 2008 were Dean or Gore

[Sebastian Doyle]

Unfortunately neither of them jumped in, and Kucinich was out by the time of my state caucus. The media got the race they wanted: The Black man vs the White woman.

The White woman was a Clinton, who was running on corporate mandates for health care and talking about "obliterating Iran". She was not even an option.

The Black man, Obama, was saying some things I wasn't comfortable with, such as staying in Afghanistan. But he was also borrowing heavily from the Dean campaign strategy, and I believed he would at least be better than a DLC Clinton retread, if not my ideal candidate. So I caucused for him. And I campaigned for him. And I donated what I could afford to.

And what did I get for it? Rahm Emanuel, Larry $ummers, Timmy the Elf, Tom VilSuckingMonSatan's cock, and other assorted corporatist tools. And the horrible but very real idea of making health care in this country WORSE than the status quo. :evilfrown: