Well, it seems like comments by our junior senator have kicked some dust up in the 2004 presidential race. Here are some of the more detailed reactions:
Good for John Kerry Here is a pretty good post from Josh Marshall's Web log. He occasionally writes for Washington Monthly.
"The president's operatives are using the presence of an American army in the field -- Americans fighting and dying in Iraq-- not only to land a few easy shots on the president's opponents but to hit them so hard that they're afraid to hit back. Don't miss the point of this: it's to scare anyone out of uttering any criticism. And it's a cheap use of American blood."
Wow.
'Operation Cancelled Election 2004 is in play...' Pretty good piece by Rich Proctor posted to smirkingchimp.com. Check out the second to the last paragraph. Cancel the election because the nation is at war? Don't be surprised if the fascists running our nation try to pull it off.
Save Our Democracy: A Call to Action I am in the process of reading Hill's "Fixing Elections" which, unfortunately, is a tad on the boring side.
Kerry fires back Thomas from the Daily Review Web log has a transcript of Kerry's speech at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on Thursday in Georgia. It is worth a quick breeze through.
Kucinich planning third party run? Ron from Politics 1 is reporting that Rep. Dennis Kucinich is "slipping under the political radar" and might be considering a run as an independent, possibly as the Natural Law Party [NLP] candidate. Kucinich has received praise from both Ralph Nader and, more recently, former NLP presidential candidate John Hagelin, who has endorsed his campaign.
Edwards on C-SPAN
North Carolina Sen. John Edwards is on C-SPAN making a speech at Sen. Tom Harkin's "Hear from the Heartland" Iowa presidential forum. He said that he supports the war in Iraq and gave a number of reasons, noting that 'the oil fields in Iraq belong to the people of Iraq, not us.' This got me thinking a little bit because we have heard this line from Bush, Inc. as well. We know these clowns are "corporate socialists." They believe that big business should own the government. Why else would they allow overseas tax shelter protections to be put into the terrorism legislation? However, listen to their words. Do the people of Iraq truly own the oil fields? If they do, then they would also own the means of production, which is a plank of the Socialist Party! Will "the people of Iraq" control and benefit from the oil fields, or will they be slaves to the oil companies who will reap the majority of the benefits of drilling those oil fields? I doubt in a MILLION YEARS that "the people of Iraq" will benefit from any of this. Sure, they will be free of a madman dictator, but their living standards will not go anywhere. They will still be destitute in the desert, so to speak. The people of Iraq WILL NEVER own or control the oil fields.
Get real.
