Gary Hart endorses at Huffington Post today I was a Hart delegate! When I saw the title "Iraq as Metaphor" I felt it coming. I did not intend to support a candidate til the general election this time, but things are happening fast this year. Slugbug
Excerpt from Hart's endorsement:
All issues are equal, but some issues are more equal than others. Those more equal give an insight into decision making, leadership style, and even character. Anyone who has served in office is familiar with the question, "Why did he/she do that?," meaning why did that politician do what they did? It is a question impossible to answer, that is without having some divine access to the inner recesses of an individual's mind or even soul.
Great decisions, however, can reveal how future great decisions might be made. No decision since the so-called Gulf of Tonkin resolution in Vietnam is more important than the vote on the 2002 war resolution on Iraq. Unlike health care, economic stimulus, immigration, and a host of other concerns, on that question there is clear difference between the Democratic finalists.
For those in the process of deciding between them for super Tuesday and beyond, they should be urged to consider this question very seriously. Those who decided to grant George W. Bush virtually unilateral authority to invade Iraq now must accept responsibility for its consequences. Votes have consequences. The consequences in Iraq are well over 30,000 American casualties [casualty: killed and wounded], possibly one million Iraqi deaths, and at least a trillion American tax dollars spent on restructuring (much wasteful and corrupted) and not spent on U.S. schools, hospitals, and infrastructure.
On issues such as this, it is not enough to say, We all make mistakes. One of the remaining candidates cannot even bring herself to say that. Why not, at least, say, "The president misled me"? Given how tragically wrong that vote was, such an admission would be at the very least a signal of humility, responsibility, wisdom, and character.
(keep reading at the link - he nails it)
Also, John Kerry diary at DKos
Making "Fired Up & Ready To Go" - Pat Wright is lead singer for Total Experience Gospel Choir of Seattle.
See also other Seattle rock musicians of stature and political credibility.
Hillary & the Band (from Robin) - you have to see this
(Hart painting credit - Aftermath News, which also has link to Alex Jones conspiracy article wherein Hart supposedly wrote to Iran warning of "false flags")
Someone said that Obama is like a mix of Kerry (0 / 0)
and Jimi Hendrix. There is something to it, I think.
The history of the left is a history of purists betraying the progressive movement so that they can feel good about their righteous selves.
by Joe B on Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 10:16:55 AM PST
Dear John, from DiAnne in Seattle (0 / 0)
Endorsements matter to me.
I believe in Ted Kennedy and his career voting record. He endorsed you. I was one of the national moderators on your blog.
I believe in you. You (& Ted) endorsed Barack Obama and I joined up.
I was a Gary Hart delegate. Her endorsed you and Obama.
The Grateful Dead is reuniting tonight for Obama. Joan Baez has endorsed Obama. Though politically active, they have not endorsed candidates before.
Something is happening.
My son first alerted me to your campaign after Gore pulled out.
He has been an Obama supporter since he heard he might run.
He was 21 when he met you on a bus to Tacoma and he is 26 now, and has
finished a degree in political science.
He just saw you speak an University of Washington.
We need to get those young people out to vote and everyone else to climb on and help!
Posted by: DKos comments | February 04, 2008 at 12:27 PM