I did state, at least 18 months ago, that the Republicans would run someone so awful, that the common person, out of FEAR, would support a Corporate welfare, perpetual war, .001% enricher, as a Peace Candidate whose making life better for everyone, without recalling one single fact of the previous 3 years, when Obama is anything but that in action/reality.
Your choice, as the Main Stream Media lets you know, is THEIR only Viable Choice: REALLY REALLY EVIL, or THE MOST EFFECTIVE EVIL. Remember, only you can choose..... if the electronic voting machines work properly this time. So, how do you like having TWO YEARS of good politician/bad politician, instead of 6 months to a year? The International media is loving it, they are making 10 times per year what they use to, no need for the truth to leak out and ruin it. After all, we're a Capitalist State and Profits are all that matters. Scott -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Freedom Rider: Democrats Show Their True Colors Wed, 09/05/2012 - 00:14 â Margaret Kimberley  by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democrats in Charlotte deserve the president they nominate. They are union members with no self-respect, African Americans who ask nothing for their own people, âanti-warâ folks who oppose only Republican wars â and the fat cats who profit from it all. âRomney has no room to criticize Obama because Obama is now the war monger in chief, with the body count to prove it.â  Freedom Rider: Democrats Show Their True Colors by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley âBarack Obama and the Democrats are not the lesser of two evils, they are the more effective evil.â If right wing Republican ideology didnât exist, it would have to be invented. The blatant racism, bizarre shrillness, and appeals to patriarchy and misogyny are easily condemned. Attacking the Republican Party isnât at all difficult, it is in fact a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. It isnât surprising that an African American camerawomanwas taunted and humiliated by Republicans at their recent convention. The Republicans have been working for decades to make themselves the party of, by, and for white people. Republican racism and right wing extremism mean that the Democrats get credit for doing nothing or even for acting like Republicans. Their convention is being held in Charlotte, North Carolina, a city without one unionized hotel, and little wonder, North Carolina is a right to work state with the lowest rate of union workers in the country. The absence of outrage over the choice of Charlotte as the convention venue is proof positive of the ideological bankruptcy of the Democratic Party and the cowardice of its supporters. âThe Republicans have been working for decades to make themselves the party of, by, and for white people.â As if the choice of Charlotte werenât bad enough, an anti teachers union movie, Wonât Back Down, was shown at a convention event after being vetted by Democratic Party leadership. Michelle Rhee, the face of teacher union busting and the destruction of public education, appeared on a panel at the filmâs screening. Rhee told the harsh and ugly truth about the way the Democrats are treating teacher unions. âThere is no longer sort of some assumed alliance between the Democratic Party and the teacherâs unions.â If teachers and other unions had any self-respect, they would boycott the convention altogether. Instead they will be front and center, proclaiming their love for a party that never passes up an opportunity to stab them in the back. Barack Obama and the Democrats are not the lesser of two evils, they are the more effective evil, and their convention coronation proves it. They have the benefit of running against a Republic candidate who made a fortune by putting thousands of people out of work and who brags about it. While Democrats do not openly talk about putting Social Security and Medicare on the budget cutting table, the Republican vice presidential candidate makes eliminating Medicare his claim to fame. âResidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan will be the victims of American drone attacks whether the president inaugurated in January is named Obama or Romney.â The Democrats are once again committing the perfect crime. They present themselves as the friend of working people and as the defenders against racism, misogyny and homophobia. While a black camera operator will probably not have to fear being humiliated by Democrats, the residents of Afghanistan and Pakistan will not be so lucky. They will be the victims of American drone attacks whether the president inaugurated in January is named Obama or Romney. Obamaâs nominating speech will no doubt be better than Romneyâs. There will be no strange decision to let an old actor give a rambling speech. The evils of Bain capital will be exposed to the world, but Obama would have agreed to a back room budget deal with Republicans if vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and other Republican congressional leaders hadnât scuttled his plans. The activists who opposed war during the Bush administration canât seem to find their voices now. Instead they criticize Mitt Romney because he didnât âmentionâ wars in his convention speech. It isnât clear what these critics wanted to hear. Were they once again anti-war or had they already dropped those convictions once a Democrat became president? In any case, Romney has no room to criticize Obama because Obama is now the war monger in chief, with the body count to prove it. âWere they once again anti-war or had they already dropped those convictions once a Democrat became president?â Little children with abusive parents can be forgiven if they donât know how to break free from their victimizers. Adults who claim to lead others have no such excuse. The union leaders, and the peace activists and all other progressives in the Charlotte convention hall should walk out in protest but they wonât.They wonât because their convictions arenât really any better than Obamaâs. They want to belong more than they want to be right. Obama is the more effective evil because he is enabled by Democrats who are either afraid of their own shadows or who are as bad as he is. They should know that making the case for their demands, indeed having demands at all, is the sure path to political victory. But they donât want political victory. They just want someone who is part of their crowd to get the top job. Too many people in the Democratic base are effectively evil too. Margaret Kimberley's Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR, and is widely reprinted elsewhere. 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