An open Letter

This is a letter I recieved from a Kucinich supporter in my state.

I wanted to share with you a post I sent to the Jackson Free Press this evening.

President Obama.

Well, he just might become president.

We could do a lot worse.

I like that he now says the first think he will do when president is get the joint chiefs of staff together and start the ball rolling to end the occupation of Iraq and begin regional diplomacy.

Someone (some millions) are going to have to keep him accountable to that promise. He has quite consistently voted to fund the war. There is one candidate who did vote against starting the war and has consistently voted not to fund it.

He and Edwards and Dodd and Clinton and Biden all voted for war funds for Iran also. We need to talk him out of that.

He and the others, except one, voted for the patriot act and for its renewal. I hope we can interest him in the personal liberties that our founders died for and get him to drop his support for these horrid laws.

He supports dumping nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, Nevada like all the other candidates except one.

He supports the death penalty – like all the other candidates except the one I keep referring to and Gravel.

He won’t ditch NAFTA or the WTO, there is only one candidate willing to do that.

Like nearly all the other candidates, his healthcare plan has a nice place in it for the insurance profiteers. There is one candidate that promotes a non-profit health care plan that thinks keeping people healthy should be what health care is about, but all the others think it should be about making money.

And like all the other candidates he takes money from corporations. I wonder what the corporations think they are buying? There is just one candidate that doesn’t take corporate money.

After 40 years of supporting candidates that were electable, just not as evil as the alternatives, I want the remainder of my life to not be so wasted. If we don’t believe in, live in and work toward our highest aspirations, how would we ever expect to reach them?

Will NH Campaigns Get nasty?

Now, the Clinton campaign is scrambling to reassess its strategy, and whether to more aggressively attack Sen. Obama. "Does everyone know everything they need to know about Barack Obama?" her chief strategist, Mark Penn, asked a handful of reporters on a glum overnight flight from Iowa to New Hampshire. "She's fully vetted, fully tested, and I don't think that process has occurred with Barack Obama."

Sen. Clinton echoed him hours later, at a morning rally in a Nashua, N.H., airport hangar. "Of all the people running for president, I've been the most vetted, the most investigated, and -- my goodness -- the most innocent, it turns out," she said to applause.

IMO, they will become extremely nasty....Clinton has got to counter Obama's "MO".

Obama Plays The Oprah Card

It is 3 weeks from the caucus in Iowa--time to play a trump card. for Obama that is his benefactor, Oprah. She will join the stump in Iowa, SC and NH. Will she help? That is thye $64 question. In the recent past, not too much difference has been made by the use of celebs. But Oprah is Oprah and about a ga-zillion women listen to what she says.

IMO, she will not do much to gain the young voters, more likely she will help convince the older women, say 35-60 group. If that occurs, she will be pulling from some of Clinton's audience.

It will be interesting to see after her stump with Obama and the next polls, to see if she will make a difference. I think she will not make that much of a difference.

Let The Attacks Begin

Do you remember Willie Horton? Probably not! well he was a prisoner than Dukakis let out of prison and he committed more crimes--it was the campaign hot topic--it was a big influence in the Dukakis loss.

Someone in the Repub camps sat on a story about a rapist in Arkansas that was released by Huckabee and he committed more stuff. Now that Huck has jumped ahead of Romney--the story comes out. Will it be successful? Most likely.

Dems are also jumping on the trash chucking tactic. Clinton camp has issued a piece about Obama when he was in Kindergarten saying that he wanted to be Pres. this somehow makes him look too ambitious.

IMO, anyone that is running for Pres is ambitious, to include Hil.

oh yeah, I need to address religion. Why? Don't ask! But Huck's popularity seems to be his religious background, sooooooooo--Mitt will go on TV and explain Mormonism. He thinks this will help him as it did with JFK when he addressed his catholism.

Will this work? I question its timing. To me he is looking a bit desperate. The whole religion thing will most likely be vague at best.