Why Vote Democractic for 2009?
We’re all familiar with republican
presidential nominee John McCain’s 100 year
Iraq war foreign policy. However,
don’t expect the American public’s weariness
with the war and it’s tragic cost in blood and
borrowed dollars to gain any respect from
dedicated neo-cons past and
present.
For example, Senator Joe Lieberman of
Connecticut while feigning support for
diplomacy in dealing with Iran, at the end of
his reasoning diplomacy always comes in a
distant second to war.
In spite of the euphoria we as democrats
experienced in gaining some successes fall 2006
on the county and state level, we’ve quickly
learned hard won but miniscule majorities in
the U.S. House and Senate have not taken us
where we need to be. Worse yet, voters who do
not follow politics and Bush’s poison pen
closely express disappointment democrats have
failed them.
An overwhelming worry to me is that the
sword rattling neo-cons have sensed new life
through the present gridlock in Congress, which
has fostered an unwilling but helpless
acquiescence of average Americans to the Iraq
war.
In addition to Senator Lieberman,
recently, each on 1 hour PBS talk shows with
host Charley Rose, former U.S. Secy. of State
George Schultz intimates a strike on Iran as
does present Asst. Secy. of State John
Negraponte. Mr. Negraponte now helps
de-stabilize already tenuous relations with
North Korea and exacerbates the same with Syria
in accusing the two of joint nuclear weapons
development.
Do all these threats and accusations sound
familiar? Remember the certainty of
WMD’s, the feared mushroom cloud, and the
impassioned speech of “the good soldier” Colin
Powell? The neo-cons are selling
their wares again while the democratic majority
is paper thin.
We as democrats must take to the phones
and neighborhood streets to enable the Congress
to become a veto-proof majority January
2009.
Buz Cormany
Medina County