No B.O.

No B.O.

From Brian Kane:

I have firmly made up my mind that I will not vote for Barack Obama in November. It was a foregone conclusion that I would not vote for John McCain, but I had a hard time working up much enthusiasm for Obama during the Democratic primaries and only begrudgingly came to the rationalization that I would vote for him anyway simply because he was the Democrat.

Now even the idea of voting for him just to vote against John McCain and the Republicans has lost any appeal for me. His effort to “run to the center” demonstrates that Barack Obama was already right-of-center and has decided that his political aspirations can only be achieved through total appeasement to the ultra-right fundamentalist Christian activists who have overwhelmed the Republican Party. His “refined” views on withdrawal from Iraq, telecom immunity in the FISA bill, wiretapping, continuation of the odious “Faith-Based Initiatives” program, expansion of the federal death penalty, the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment ruling, and even his sudden embrace of NAFTA place him so far outside the realm of “liberal” or “progressive” that he could just as easily be the nominee of the Republican Party, were it not so committed to its own twisted, theo-fascist platform.

Comments

[ER]

Same here. People say "where else can we go?" and my only thoughts are third party or write-in, and that's not ideal, but my conscience is clean. I just can't vote for either McCain or Obama, I just can't. Obama lost me with his FISA vote (though his face-based initiative talk also is distubing).

[Woody]

Write in Tom McMahon for President.