Bruce A. Dixon, of the Black Agenda Report discusses the upcoming presidential election:
What with choices limited to greater and lesser evils, or more and less effective evils, it might be time to ask ourselves, how is this politics of choosing evil working out for us? Can we, and why should we hold our tongues and noses to re-elect this fracking president?
Should We Really Re-Elect This Fracking President?
From the title, it is no doubt obvious that this comes near the end of an article discussing the Obama Administration's record on energy, which is pretty terrible. To know that, I think that all you need to reflect on is that the environment isn't one of my usual beats, nor Bruce Dixon's, yet we've both written about how awful this administration has been on the subject. Obama has allowed fracking to go on, as well as allowing the construction of a pipeline to carry Canadian shale oil to the Gulf Coast, the expansion of off-shore oil drilling despite the experience of Deepwater, and he's always been really sweet on "clean coal", a misnomer if ever there was one.
My answer to Mr. Dixon's question is no, we shouldn't vote for him. When you vote for evil, you're not only going to end up with evil, you're telling politicians that it's OK.
It's not OK. We can't afford it anymore.
10 comments:
That's right it's not okay anymore for these reasons and others as well.
Let it be known to those on the left - that making this choice we do not instantly become the problem with all that is screwed up with the dims and their lame dick party!
If this were the only area where he failed utterly, I wouldn't be nearly as critical, I suspect. It's just another in a long line of such failures, though.
Frankly never thought to see the day when democracy died, murdered; that the sacred vote became meaningless, to no purpose, but it has. Not only did its killer enter the forum clad in the flag and carrying a cross, but publishing words of greatness to an audience ill-educated to hear and understand their import. The fatality will not be swift and painless, rather slow, lingering and painful, the status quo and myth dies in this manner. Once the vote counted when the usurper solicited re-election but those votes were waisted against a population drugged on exceptionalism and revenge. Never Again. Let the cancer ridden monster expire, and teach the children not to place flowers upon its tomb.
Please note, this is the second time I've entered into the "Im not a robot game", first for preview and now again. I have neither will nor life expectancy to keep doing this shat.
We've certainly failed at remembering one of the most basic facts of human behavior - that deeds mean far more than words. All I needed to do to understand how Barack Obama was likely to be as President was what he did in his prior positions. Yet so many people are shocked that he's turned out to be that way. At least, those who actually realize what he's doing are shocked.
We seem to have become too foolish to govern ourselves. Perhaps it's best that the banks are taking over.
Sorry about the captchas. I'm going to turn them off for a while to see what happens with the spam. It seems as though Google is determined to invent a captcha system that only computers can crack.
Turned em off and it took less than a day and it was back on. Hope you have better luck. I'll try again soon.
There was no test and wa la done deal. If only.
Sorry for the momentary peevishness with the captchas, usually don't mind the one to proofread, then if satisfactory to post the comment (editing facilities are a welcome treasure) after passing the first firewall. If spam becomes annoying, I will learn to be patient with those annoyances, even if it kills me ;-). Thank you for your consideration nonetheless.
It's been eleven hours and I've already had two spam messages go into moderation.
I wish I could choose a less challenging form of captcha, but it's all or nothing, unfortunately.
From myself it looks like patience is on order. Too bad these critters cannot use and/or programming, once in edit an automatic go to enter when edit is satisfactory, otherwise edit or enter after proving not a robot game. If diagraming reverse the sentence please. Thanks for trying, maybe the dyslexia won't get worse.
All the best......
Even with Google's defenses, and even with as little traffic as this blog receives, I'm still getting spam comments every day. I've turned the captchas back on, at least for now. I won't be able to check on this blog much in the next few days, so at least as a temporary measure, I'm going to go back to using captchas.
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