Reply #151: We DO need to win. We can't afford for any progressives to sit this one out or register [View All]

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a "protest" vote. Two or three SC justices will be replaced this term, and the Republican subversion of the DOJ and the entire justice system in this country probably has just this one chance to be reversed or at least paused. We need to get back to being a country where a popular Democratic governor can't have the election blatantly stolen from him and then be imprisoned on trumped up charges and then moved around in secrecy to prevent him from having access to his legal team or to the media to try to get his story out. The abuse of law as a political weapon has gotten as blatant in some ways as in any dictatorship. They have the Halliburton-built concentration camps ready for us. They are planning to bomb Iran. They are trying to do away with Net Neutrality. If we let John McCain into the WH or fail to elect a huge Dem majority in both houses, we might as well kiss our collective asses goodbye.

But If Obama is elected--and he will be our nominee, barring very unlikely circumstances--then he can put in place people who can start investigations of the abuses of power that have gone on for the last 8 years.

This election isn't about Obama or about his most aggressive and obnoxious supporters. It is about US and about the kind of country we want to live in and pass down to our children. The country that would result from another 4 years of Republican rule is NOT the one we want!

I am upset about the way Hillary, whom I used to admire, has run her campaign. But if she were the nominee, I would not only vote for her, I would be out there working my ass off for her.

I was an Edwards supporter, and I was very upset that the MSM cut him out of the race so early, even after he defeated Hillary in Iowa. But once he dropped out and I moved to Obama, I began to study more about him, including reading his books, reading what others have said about him, watching him speak, etc. I am now a strong supporter of Obama and I think he will be a great candidate. I am also delighted at the millions of new voters who are registering specifically to vote for him. The Republicans will use voter suppression and electronic voting to try to steal this election or to keep it too close for a mandate. But if enough of a landslide occurs, their efforts will be swamped. They will have some effect, sure--I am quite certain that we won more races in 2006 than were actually allowed to go to the Dem candidates--but at least we can counterbalance that to some degree by creating a tsunami for our candidates, not just Obama, but the downticket candidates as well, because I think Obama is going to have pretty long coattails!