Who Wants Obama to Pick A Right Wing VP?
Memo to Barack Obama:
For months now, your political advisors have telling you that you’ve got to tack to the right, that you need to balance out your Democratic Party credentials with Republican Party credentials, that you need to pick a running mate who acts more like a Republican.
This same conventional wisdom led to defeat for Al Gore and John Kerry. Where, outside of the questionable arena of focus groups and abstract political theory, has this strategy been proven?
Nowhere. It is a justification. It is an excuse for you, and your profit-seeking aides, to engage in the dirty old politics of policy by campaign contributions. It is a mask for the easy path of following what’s been done before instead of forging a new path out of America’s expanding pit of failure.
A week ago, over on a web site called The Point, a right wing activist set up a page through which other right wingers like himself would pledge to vote for you, Barack Obama for President, but only if you selected a Republican as Vice President. The way that The Point works is that people come together to commit to take political action when joined by others of like mind. It’s a way to organize spontaneous grassroots action outside of the ordinary channels of power. Sometimes it can be very effective.
When it comes to the effort to pressure you to select a Republican running mate, however, The Point was not an effective tool at all. Only one person has signed that pledge to vote for you only if you choose a running mate from the GOP - and that person is the same person who initiated the pledge in the first place. That person, what’s more, has chosen to remain anonymous, too timid even to commit his name to the effort.
It seems that nobody much wants you, Mr. Obama, to choose a Republican running mate - not even Republicans. There is no popular clamor demanding that you select a right wing vice presidential candidate. In fact, there is the contrary - a strong grassroots movement of people trying to stop you from selecting a right wing running mate from the Republican or Democratic Party.
You don’t have long, Mr. Obama to swerve away from the easy path of politics as usual. Choose the running mate that the Democratic D.C. insiders want you to pick, and your political identity will be beholden to their broken vision from that point on.
Senator Obama had a 15% lead in the polls, and blew it with a sharp turn to the right. Oil-sponsored TV news shows push him to pick right-wing ideologue Joe Biden, who has represented DuPont Corporation in the Senate for over 30 years. In Delaware, where Biden is from, DuPont is the biggest taxpayer. In Delaware, dishonest politicians do what DuPont tells them to do.
As a puppet of DuPont, Biden has worked tirelessly to imprison marijuana users. Marijuana (hemp) was outlawed to help DuPont, which had just invented Nylon; also, DuPont markets the one & only coagulant that forms wood pulp into paper: Before hemp was outlawed to help DuPont, all paper, ropes, tents & paint chemicals were made from hemp. Since the law changed, they’re all made by DuPont.
Science has known marijuana is harmless since the LaGuardia Commission Report in the 1940s. It is definitely not addictive, according to medical science. But Delaware claims to have thousands of marijuana medical emergencies per year, despite the fact that it’s harmless and cannot cause a medical emergency. (Did I mention puppet Biden’s son is Attorney General of Delaware?) Despite the scientific facts, Delaware’s MARIJUANA ADDICTION INDUSTRY is thriving! An industry for treating a nonexistent condition, profiting DuPont.
I am a lifelong Democrat. I’ve even gone to Democratic Party meetings. For decades, Biden supporters have pushed for more marijuana imprisonment, less civil rights, and forcefully dragged the party to the far right.
If DuPont Corporation controls Obama, then he will definitely choose Joe Biden.
Sincerely, Norman B