Comments on: Nader’s open letter to President Obama: Advice on Afghanistan

By: Don Lake, A Modest Proposal ...........

Don Lake, A Modest Proposal ........... — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:11:27 +0000

Effective ground swells start out side the system. LBJ’s biggest response was not to voters or even Democratic loyalists but via electoral threat Arid Zona Senator Barry Goldwater. [The average person just did not know at the time ......]

The extensive Gerrymandering kills the voter intimidation function. My former Congress Member is serving time in federal stir! The district RE-ELECTED another, FAILED Republican [Brian Bilbray, whom I SUCCESSFULLY worked against in the late 1990s]

My current local House Member is such a creep that it would take a felony to blast him out of the post. [Any one have any dirt on Bob (77% in 2008) Filner ????? With 'friends' like he and Puke (Viet Nam Ace) Cunningham, former military do not need any enemies ..........]

By: Michael H. Wilson

Michael H. Wilson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:36:10 +0000

That may be true Don but if the group known as the third parties and their members took on the job of contacting the adminstration we just might change things. My letter will be going out tomorrow.

Goundswells start somewhere!

By: Don Lake, A Modest Proposal ...........

Don Lake, A Modest Proposal ........... — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:50:52 +0000

Mike Wilson and Dave Schwab:

“sunshinebatman // Nov 19, 2009

He ain’t listening ….. Barry the Brit and his old mujahideen buddy Bob Gates are going expand the war in Afghanistan” in spite of the logical insanity of it all!

‘Ah will not send American Boys to fight in an Asian War’ …… LBJ, 1964

By: Dave Schwab

Dave Schwab — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:16:46 +0000

President Obama is poised to decide whether to send as many as 60,000 additional U.S. soldiers to the war in Afghanistan.

Let’s urge Obama to live up to his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Tell him to withdraw troops from Afghanistan — not send more:

http://bit.ly/noafghansurge

By: Michael H. Wilson

Michael H. Wilson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:36:25 +0000

May I suggest that each of us write the White House. Here’s the contact url and please be polite.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/

By: Robert Milnes

Robert Milnes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:18:06 +0000

Nader did not request a return to pre- Afghan invasion status quo pro ante which I’m not even sure means before the U.S. invasion which would mean reinstating the reactionary Taliban. Even the U.S. reactionaries wouldn’t/couldn’t do that. Obama’s determination to keep progressing into the quagmire which is the dem/rep policy would make him a typical dem/rep reactionary, not a progressive.

By: Robert Milnes

Robert Milnes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:03:37 +0000

reacting, you got it so twisted I can barely understand what you are talkingabout.

By: reacting

reacting — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:10:02 +0000

By your/wiki’s definition, Nader’s request for a return to the pre-Afghan invasion status quo pro ante is reactionary; Obama’s determination to keep progressing into the quagmire would make him into a progressive.

No surprise there, since progressives are typically for state-sponsored mass murder and genocide.

By: Robert Milnes

Robert Milnes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:07:42 +0000

Ghoststrider, you are back! Where have you been?

By: Robert Milnes

Robert Milnes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:06:16 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary

By: Ghoststrider

Ghoststrider — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:55:14 +0000

You mean future candidate for President of the United States, Ralph Nader.

By: sunshinebatman

sunshinebatman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:49:45 +0000

Who is reacting to what?

By: Robert Milnes

Robert Milnes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:20:44 +0000

Once again a progressive begs a reactionary.

By: sunshinebatman

sunshinebatman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:12:10 +0000

He ain’t listening, Ralph. Barry the Brit and his old mujahideen buddy Bob Gates are going expand the war in Afghanistan and send more Americans to die. That’s always been the plan.