An open letter to Hillary Clinton.

[Senior citizen]

Dear Senator Clinton:

I've heard that you are considering running for President in 2008. I want you to know that I respect and admire you, and while I wish you the best of luck, barring two miracles, I will not be voting for you.

The first miracle would be if widespread electronic voting fraud is exposed, and Kerry becomes President.

The second miracle would be if you ran as the candidate of the Green Party.

Not that I don't believe in miracles, but I don't consider either one very likely.

Many years ago I concluded that the entrenched two-party system is so corrupt that it cannot be repaired and must be replaced. Nevertheless, I voted for Kerry in this election, since he had promised not to concede and also promised to see that all votes were counted. He appears to have reneged on both promises.

It deeply pained me to have to vote for a pro-war candidate. I am anti-war, pro-environment, pro-civil rights--well, there is no point in listing all the planks in the Green Party platform. But most of all I am anti-corporate. I believe that when business and government merge, it is called fascism. As a senior citizen, I am anti-fascist. I believe that the Republicrat party is a creature of corporate government, or fascism, and I will no longer vote for fascist candidates.

I do not mean to imply that you, personally, are a fascist. I think you are concerned about most of the same things that I care about. But if you run as a major party candidate, you will be beholden to the fascist machine that controls them, and you will find it almost impossible to oppose them in any meaningful way.

Well, miracles have been known to happen. We shall see.

Respectfully,

Senior Citizen

[Placebo]

1. Well since you won't vote for her...

I certainly will.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Hllary's Not Green...

She's a Democrat and the Democratic platform is not the Green platform...

[Senior citizen]

3. How right you are!

On almost every issue that I can think of, the Democratic Party platform appears closer to the puke platform than to the Green platform.

I must be one of them wild extremists.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. What Specifically Is Lacking In The Democratic Platform?

I haven't seen the two platforms side by side in awhile...


You will acknowledge that the Dems have the challenge and responsibility to the folks that depend on them to craft a platform that's potentially palatable to a plurality or majority of voters...

The Greens operate under no such burden..

[Senior citizen]

5. Basically, the pukes "manufacture consent"

and then the Dems go out and ask what people are consenting to, so that they can be sure their platform is palatable?

The Greens operate under a quite different burden. It's called a conscience.

[Senior citizen]

6. Shameless kick. I said something kewl again & I'm kickin' it.

Ever hear the expression, "Voting your conscience?"

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. "voting your conscience"

i'm a pragmatist....


America is no more likely to embrace a Green candidate for president than Bush is likely to embrace Islam...

[Senior citizen]

8. Well, I actually never thought America would have a president

who was a religious extremist, who wanted to demolish the wall between church and state, who wanted to put prayer in the schools, who used a religious litmus test for Supreme Court appointees, and who would start a holy war as a pretext to take over foreign oil fields.

Did you happen to see Fahrenheit 9/11, the Michael Moore documentary that there was so much fuss about? If so, you'd have seen the chimp embracing and giving classified, "no foreign distribution" documents to Saudi Prince Bandar (Bandar Bush), welcoming the Taliban to Crawford, and shaking hands with or embracing many Saudi (Moslem) dignitaries. Not that embracing Islamic extremists is the same as embracing Islam, but personally, I don't care to bet money on what pragmatists might do.

The Green movement has been steadily growing throughout the world, wherever participatory politics is permitted. If America ever fell into that category, I believe the Green movement would thrive here also. I just got Bev's most recent email, noting that the companies who test the BBV machines did not run the tests for security and vulnerability, noting on the check sheet that such tests were simply not done or were considered not applicable. In explanation, Bev was told by the testing company that they are paid by the vendors of the machines, and that the vendors don't like to see negative stuff in the test reports. A classic case of pragmatism, wouldn't you say?