New email just received from Progressive Democrats of America

[Windy]

IF YOU WERE OPPOSED TO THIS WAR BEFORE IT STARTED,
THE CHOICE IS CLEAR--BARACK OBAMA GOT IT RIGHT!

Dear Cynthia,

PDA's roots began in opposition to the Iraq War. PDA's entire existence has been a daily fight to end a war that never should have been started. We all know that. And over the next few days, we have a chance to act in harmony with our antiwar roots.

Here's the essence of the situation: if Senator Obama can make it through next Tuesday in decent shape--or better--the electoral terrain in the rest of the month of February seems very favorable to his candidacy. But Senator Clinton is going for a knockout punch right now, this week, trying to dominate in places where PDA has some strength, states like California and Massachusetts.

Why should PDA care? Well, since PDA's top-ranked candidates--Kucinich and Edwards--have now withdrawn, PDA supporters who wanted to could still make a difference in the next few days for our third-ranked candidate, Barack Obama, especially in California and Massachusetts.

PDA supporters who wanted to could still make a difference in the next few days, especially in CA & MA. We could email our personal lists, call our friends, blog our support online, volunteer, vote. We could, if we wanted to, choose to act.

My own thoughts, as a lifelong antiwar activist, are pretty straightforward at this point. There are two main candidates left.

One of them, Barack Obama, spoke out against the war in October of 2002, before it started. http://www.barackobama.com/2002/10/02/remarks_of_illinois_state_sen.php

The other one, Hillary Clinton, voted to authorize that war only 8 days later.
http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=233783

Their speeches are worth reading. Obama got it right. Clinton got it wrong. I'm going to support the one that got it right.


Yours in the movement,

Steve Cobble
PDA from Roxbury on,
Formerly with Kucinich '04 & '08

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. This is actually humorous. Those nitwits would rather hand the

gop a big gift than move on their only issue. Their only issue is irrelevant to this election. Is that the role player wing of Democratic Party?

[Terry_M]

3. Irrelevant....

Hundreds of billions of dollars wasted... Thousands of Americans dead... Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.... And here we have a candidate whose JOB it was to make decisions for the entire country who knew less about what they were voting us into than people who had other jobs and other things to worry about. Irrelevant, Yes.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Irrelevent to this election. McCain voted for it too.

[Terry_M]

5. And that could be fine for you...

But what that means to me is I can't trust either one of them.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Then vote for Nader or the Camejo guy in the general. Your conscience will be clear.

[eridani]

7. Their only issue is costing so damned much borrowed money--

--that we can't afford to do anything else.

[ursi]

2. love it