[Marxism] Last minute stab by rightist Dobson against Obama

[Mark Lause]

I do understand the impulse to support Obama.  I'd give anything to be
able to rationalize going with him.  And, living in a swing state, I
could support Obama here and challenge the radical credentials of my
friends  for their failure to vote for the Vegetarian Bolsheviki
ticket in New York.   When David Cobb urged this, we recognized it as
rank opportunism of the worst sort.  How is it not so when we do it?

And why is it so hard to formulate a common line on the United
States--that applies here or New York or New Orleans or Wasilla--when
we seem to know so bloody well what line radicals in other countries
should or shouldn't do?

A friend of mine back in Chicago used to joke that he was always
looking to sell out the revolution...just as soon as he got a serious
offer.  He'd always go cheap, he said, but nobody was buying.

As always tends to be the case, there's a germ of truth to it.  I wish
I could find one single legitimate reason to justify finding Obama
acceptable and I can't.  For me, too, I'd probably be a pretty cheap
purchase.  But they're not buying.  They can't even spare a nod or
wink to the left...much less buy us a drink.

And so it goes...

ML