This is surprising, how?
To forestall ARGeezer ... ;-)
Yeah, if O came out with positions I would enthusiastically support he wouldn't be the nominee.
As a former fanatically devoted volunteer and worker for McGovern who worked his ass off during the campaign that ....
is ...
uh ...
accurate
:-(
:-D
... and since then I guess I only ever supported the nominee as my first choice in an open primary once, in 2000. From Udall to Gore to Babbit to Edwards ... the ambition reached for in the primary has almost always exceeded the grasp ...
... and the only time my primary pick was the nominee, he won the election but was not sworn in as President, so now I'd probably be nervous if my first choice was, in fact, the nominee. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
There are bits and pieces of Obama's policies that I can enthusiastically support. Establishment of an HVDC grid to connect sustainable wind and solar resource areas to the big population centers of the east and west, I'm real enthusiastic about that one. The substantial increase in funding for rail, that one also has my enthusiastic support.
And some of his policies that I only lukewarm support in absolute terms, when placed in relative terms there is no comparison. His Versal Health Care plan (that is, 2/3 of Universal), when compared with McCain's plan for the Healthy and Wealthy and a tax increase on health care spending on everyone else, its clearly by far the better alternative. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
