Loserville: Obama Is Channeling Kerry and Gore

There is probably still time to turn this electoral debacle in the
making around. Obama needs to come out unambiguously for a quick end to
the war in Iraq. He needs to do an about face on his call for an
expansion of the war in Afghanistan. He needs to flatly rule out
preemptive war as a policy for the United States of America, unless the
country is in danger of imminent attack. He needs to scotch plans for
expanding the military, and instead to start talking about how to
reduce military spending, so that those funds can be shifted to
domestic priorities like improving education and dramatically
increasing research into carbon-free energy production. He needs to
call for a national healthcare system that will provide quality,
affordable medical care for all, and he needs to call for an aggressive
campaign to combat joblessness and to reduce income disparity within
the US.

Do that, and we will see an Obama presidency and a Democratic sweep of both houses of Congress.

Continue with the present losing strategy, and we will see John
McCain as president, and the continuation of a weak, compromised,
sell-out Democratic Congress for at least the next four years.

Now as sympathetic as I am to the politics espoused by Ralph Nader
and by the Green Party, I'm well aware of the futility of Third Party
campaigns. Even so, count me as one progressive who at this point has
stopped supporting Obama.
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DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based journalist and columnist.
His latest book is "The Case for Impeachment" (St. Martin's Press,
2006). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net

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