From The Nation
We recognize that compromise is necessary in any democracy. We understand that the pressures brought to bear on those seeking the highest office are intense. But retreating from the stands that have been the signature of your campaign will weaken the movement whose vigorous backing you need in order to win and then deliver the change you have promised.Here are key positions you have embraced that we believe are essential to sustaining this movement:
§ Withdrawal from Iraq on a fixed timetable.
§ A response to the current economic crisis that reduces the gap between the rich and the rest of us through a more progressive financial and welfare system; public investment to create jobs and repair the country's collapsing infrastructure; fair trade policies; restoration of the freedom to organize unions; and meaningful government enforcement of labor laws and regulation of industry.
§ Universal healthcare.
§ An environmental policy that transforms the economy by shifting billions of dollars from the consumption of fossil fuels to alternative energy sources, creating millions of green jobs.
§ An end to the regime of torture, abuse of civil liberties and unchecked executive power that has flourished in the Bush era.
§ A commitment to the rights of women, including the right to choose abortion and improved access to abortion and reproductive health services.
§ A commitment to improving conditions in urban communities and ending racial inequality, including disparities in education through reform of the No Child Left Behind Act and other measures.
§ An immigration system that treats humanely those attempting to enter the country and provides a path to citizenship for those already here.
§ Reform of the drug laws that incarcerate hundreds of thousands who need help, not jail.
§ Reform of the political process that reduces the influence of money and corporate lobbyists and amplifies the voices of ordinary people.
These are the changes we can believe in. In other areas--such as the use of residual forces and mercenary troops in Iraq, the escalation of the US military presence in Afghanistan, the resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the death penalty--your stated positions have consistently varied from the positions held by many of us, the "friends on the left" you addressed in recent remarks. If you win in November, we will work to support your stands when we agree with you and to challenge them when we don't. We look forward to an ongoing and constructive dialogue with you when you are elected President.
Memo to liberals.
Get over it. What are you going to do? Vote for McCain? The fact is, Obama knows that you guys have a hatred for all things republican that transcends principle.
2 comments:
Gah, a good reminder of why I can't stand liberals....
Nonsensical ideas and delusions with a hint of the fantastic and the paranoid all presented as fact.
Millions of green jobs? Doing what? Making the La-La engine that you guys seem to think is out there that gets you a 100 miles to a drop of water? Trust me, conservatives have spent years trying to make one so they can make billions of it.
End the regime of torture? Does that mean we have to turn the AC down at Gitmo? Unchecked executive power? I wish, I'd like nothing more than for Bush to send a couple of marines to The Nation's offices and squeeze the authors head till all idiocy is removed.
A commitment to the rights of women? Yes, because you know, those women don't do anything or get anywhere until a man like Obama enables them or tells them they can..oh wait, I thought that was what you were against?
No word about deporting those in the country illegally then?
These are the changes we can believe in
Yes, and that is probably why you'll lose another election douchebags
Let's see 12 years of a Bush. 8 years of Reagan and women can still get their precious abortions.
Question, how is it that the women most vocal about abortion are the most unlikely to find a man to get them pregnant?
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