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LIVELY ELECTION
We haven't had
as lively an election period as we are now having around the country with people
turning out in unexpected large numbers for primaries. There are several reasons
why.
Number one is
that we take being led to a war more widely opposed even before it began by
lies. Those lies were supposed to be believed by us if repeated often enough by
Bush and his neocons. We weren't taken in.
Number two,
neither were the Iraqi peopled taken in by phony promises of peace and democracy
if only they let us run the show and control the oil.
Number three,
and very important, we voters see a real difference between the Republican and
Democratic candidates. For most elections since the Vietnam war, there has been
less and less difference between the two parties. They thought there was only
one issue that interested us voters - how to find the middle of the political
road. Well, the more they ran to the middle, the more they bumped into each
other and left the voter little political choice.
And finally,
the democratic front runners, John Kerry and Howard Dean campaign clearly and
unequivocally against the
Iraq
war. And, of real importance, all the Democratic hopefuls campaign on a clear
commitment to our working families. They declare openly against the obscene
differences in income and wealth between the lowest income levels and the upper
rich.
We hope a
real, powerful and militant populist movement for change for the better develops
out of this election. It can.
So vote early
and vote often as they used to say in
Chicago
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