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This Tuesday around 7:00 pm pst, well after all the polls close back east, I’m going down to the voting booth to either:
1) Vote for Barack Obama to protest the evident fixing of the 2008 election by the Republicans and their electronic voting machine maker benefactors. If Obama wins narrowly I’ll vote for him still, because even a four point Obama win means that the GOP Vote Theft machine came sort of close to another coup d’etat, and is well-oiled to steal another 5 to 10 million votes in the next cycle.
or, in the case of an Obama landslide,
2) Vote for Cynthia McKinney to protest Obama’s FISA vote and what appears to be his lukewarm interest in investigating the crimes committed by the soon-to-be-previous administration. I fear that Obama’s "bi-partisan" outreach will preclude a full return of this country to the rule of law, which can only occur when those who blatantly violated hundreds of laws under the color of ultimate authority are subject to rigorous investigation, indictment and prosecution.
If I vote for Obama, I’m going to give him 100 days after the inaugural before I start jumping on him. His first order of business: initiate the overturning the Patriot Act.
If I vote for McKinney, my honeymoon with President Obama and the corporate wing of the Democratic Party goes one week after the election.
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Thanks, I’m a big-tent guy, but this is an excellent, well thought out process. On a symbolic level a vote for McKinney effectively blocks the neocons from trying to misinterpret a vote that is not for Obama.
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And this was a bullseye.
I’m sure that all the lawlessness of the Bush administration cuts Barack deeply. As a constitutional law professor, he is certainly aware of how badly they have trampled on it. I often refer to one of his first acts as “retrieving the Constitution from the shredder in the VP’s office”. That said, a full airing of the misconduct, felonies, and war crimes of the Bush Administration would take years – years that Congress could not fix our economy – could not fix our national defense – could not fix the regulations and laws mangled into twisted neocon forms. Thus his choice – and not an easy one at that – is between making a record so that it never happens again while the country implodes; or to choose governance, where we try to get the Titanic off the Iceberg and women and children into the lifeboats. You can choose not to help. But I think the moral equivalence of what you would be doing is now clear.
I don’t see it as a (false) choice between re-establishing the rule of law and attending to our nation’s other problems. The Justice Department isn’t tied up attending to the economy, our national defense, our infrastructure. The Judiciary Committees of the House and Senate are fully capable of initiating hearings and investigations into the crimes of the Bush Regime without bringing the legislature to halt.
Obama has said himself he can multi-task. Let’s see it.