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Why I am voting for Obama, and why I am inspired by Nader.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

As I rise early on October 4, 2008, to get to the polls on the way to court, I will still be kicking myself for my own role, through inaction, in our having a two-party-dominated underdemocratic/barely democratic Tweedledum-Tweedledee political system. The tealeaves do not show that Obama will be any better a president than Bill Clinton was, and I was not overly fond of Bill, who maintained a government that was overly militaristic, overly-prosecutorial, and insufficiently protective of civil liberties. I voted for Bill Clinton, as I now vote for Barack Obama, as a less scary alternative to the other major party's opponent.  Just as with George Bush, II, a president McCain will feel an obligation to pay further homage to the party's morally conservative (an oxymoron) right wing, beyond his blunder of naming the woefully inexperienced, incapable Sarah Palin, who will be less of a friend to civil liberties than will John McCain...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on November 03, 2008 (boomark / email).