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In reply to the discussion: Get the U.S. OUT of the middle east, who's with me? [View all]onenote
(46,220 posts)My first priority, above all others, is getting President Obama re-elected so that we don't have a white house inhabited by someone who will start a war with Iran at the earliest opportunity and who will seek at every turn (including through the appointment of supreme court justices) to roll back roe v. wade and to scale back individual liberties (particularly the rights of women, gays, and minorities.)
My second priority is to make sure the Senate stays in Democratic hands to further limit the ability of the repubs to engage in warmongering, attack individual liberties
My third priority, is to get as many other Democrats elected in hopes that the President can have some success in carrying out an agenda that protects those who need protection and begins to reverse the two-tiered society we now have. If that means supporting blue dogs against repubs in general elections, it means supporting blue dogs.
Now, I happen to think that sticking with the President's pledge to "have Israel's back) will help achieve those priorities. You may disagree and that's fine. But if everyone who thinks that supporting Israel is good politics and that its possible to have a policy that supports Israel and supports peace (and supports efforts to get Israel to act in a way that facilitates a peace process rather than hinders it) is a neocon then, presumably, folks like Steve Cohen, Barney Frank, and Jan Schakowsky are all necons in your eyes.