if you think Obama is really any different from Clinton, you've been drinking the Kool-Aid

[asimplechord]

OK, so I've been really quiet about politics. Texas doesn't hold its primary until March, so I'm watching the Super Tuesday polls (ha, how funny that it falls on Mardi Gras!) with interest.

But... this post over at thedailyshow pisses me off. Because I don't belong to that comm to get preached at about politics. I belong to that comm to read updates and get news about Jon Stewart and The A Daily Show.

It's not that I disagree. And John McCain is a sorta scary opportunist, better than Romney but less preferable than a Democratic candidate.

Barack Obama isn't much different from Hillary Clinton. Both are corporate friendly. He's less cosy with AIPAC than she is, but he's totally backed away from the Muslim community he used to represent in Chicago. Both want to expand the military. Their insurance reform plans could be interchanged and most people wouldn't notice - neither is single-payer.

But still. It pisses me off to go to a community about a TV satire and be told for whom I should vote. WITHOUT A CUT-TAG, even, so I couldn't just scroll on by. Shut the fuck up, chuckdarwin, or at least do it on your own journal, or with a cut-tag.

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Re: Polotics and posts

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

You can write in. It becomes a question of voting for someone you think can win and do a little vs. someone whose platform you actually agree with. I'm writing in Kucinich or Edwards in the primary, and if Nader runs, I'll seriously consider voting for him.

Either of them is better than the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, right? And whoever gets elected isn't going to be able to make dramatic change, that's the nature of the checks-and-balances system. But I had sorta hoped that someone who wasn't such a friend of corporate handouts and the military-industrial complex would be elected.