"If You Don't Want to be Reminded of an Unpleasant Reality, Don't Ask to be Reminded"

[caseymoz]

160. I think we could replace him and still beat the Republicans.

In fact, I think we could try to replace him and fail and still beat the Republicans. Look at the field of candidates they have. They've been running against Obama for three years. What are they going to have to run against if he loses the nomination?

The time for arguments like yours was in 2000 when so many people were bored with just two parties they decided to throw votes to Ralph Nader. That was the missed opportunity to make the "lesser of two evils argument." How innocent the thinking then seems now.

And I'm even stronger about this opinion: I think we ought to try to replace Obama as nominee. He has done nothing to improve respect for constitutionally recognized rights and a great deal to directly damage them, even regarding things older than the Constitution like habeus corpus. He has either backed down or done the very opposite of what he should have done in terms of unlawful detention, denial of Habeus Corpus, court cases that expanded executive power, and giving us a more transparent government as he promised. The last is most important to fight this secrecy apparatus that we've built.

That is the bottom, drop dead, line. Nothing you've said changes that solid, indisputable fact. And I'm sorry, that's basic for a president as the only thing he promises to do when he swears the Oath of Office. And in that respect, he is just as bad as a Republican. And, I'll put it like this, when you're bankrupt, it doesn't matter if you owe a hundred dollars or ten thousand because your resources are still zero. You can't pay either.

I am thinking seriously of dropping out of the party over this, and swearing off, not politics, but the USA as a bad habit.

So, it's not simple. I hope I've made my point.