Reply #8: Good read. [View All]

[crispini]

Worth considering:

What I see is the need to return this country to the principles on which it was founded. I see a need to restore the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th Amendments, which have been shredded by Bush and his Republican subordinates. I see a need to restore Habeas Corpus. I see a need for our country to stop torturing people, stop sending them to other countries to be tortured and killed, stop imprisoning them without charge, without counsel, without trial. I see a need to close down the obscenity that is Guantanamo. I see a need to finally do something about climate change. I see a need to address the drastic widening of wealth disparity in this country. I see a desperate need to reform the health insurance system, which is not only leaving 40 million people without health care but destroying American businesses.

Do you want these things, too? Well, I know for a fact that the Republicans don't agree with you on any of them. So who is it we're going to win over with the Power of Hope? When Senator Obama talks about compromise, what, exactly, does he mean? Are we willing to forget about, say, the 4th and 5th Amendments, if we can get some movement on the 1st and 8th? Are we willing to allow waterboarding on even-numbered days only? Won't we all feel better when there are only 20 million people in this preposterously wealthy country who can't afford to see a doctor?

The Republicans lost big in the 2006 elections -- and yet there are more soldiers in Iraq now than there were 18 months ago. How's that for compromise?

I'm not interested in a president who wants to sit down over coffee and talk compromise with people who are not going to compromise. I'm interested in someone who is going to fight like hell to move the country back in the right direction.