Courage and Principle: Kucinich, Edwards, Obama and Hillary

[denem]

I have seen real courage in this primary season:

Kucinich - championing (as yet) unpopular policies because they are right.

Edwards - Keeping poverty front and center in his campaign, even as he admitted was hardly a big vote winner. Then taking on corporate power even though he must have known he would turn the powers that be against him.

Obama - his refusal to resort to the darkest corridors of political hate, even though it stirs the base, best exemplified by his magnificent speech yesterday. I would have researched the worst comments on RW preachers and laid out America's racism for all to see.

These politicans love America, and have faith in the American people - that with enough patience and discourse, truth can outweigh lies. That we can overcome.

I am not excluding Hillary, but her political courage, such as it is, is seldom upfront. She as a politican has not given an inch on Choice. She champions, but compromises on LBGT rights. None but Kucinich would be prepared to lose and election on Gay Marriage. And Hillary knows it is the right thing to do. But she is expedient.

I will leave it to HRC's supporters to set out Hillary's political courage.

And I have seen cowardice. The Republican candidate tripped over themselves in a race to the bottom, Romney, I think is the least example, as he is a near sociopath who believes in nothing.

When a Democratic shows courage, when an issue is unpopular, I am proud when fellow Democrats stand shoulder to shoulder. I am shamed when they jump on the bandwagon for short term political gain.

I am shamed that many here hardened their hearts against the words Barack Obama spoke on race.

I am a badly flawed human being. I would not have a bar of impeachment on the days following the election of 2006. I did not support putting funding on the line as a lever to stop the war. I believed, and still believe it was political suicide.

But I was wrong. It was the right thing to do. It was the Democratic thing to do. I try to learn from my mistakes.

[meow mix]

1. I am shamed of them too. they cant be dems..

"I am shamed that many here hardened their hearts against the words Barack Obama spoke on race"


something else going on there.