Okay, I have taken an amazing, but not unanticipated, amount of crap from folks because I am "suddenly" disaffected with Barack. My primary reason, re-emphasised over the weekend, was his politically expedient behavior with regard to Trinity and their message.
Most of the complaints I have gotten, here and elsewhere, are about how "trivial" (in y'alls minds) my complaints are.
But THIS one is something every Progressive should be bothered by.
This will be short tonight.
I got an action item today, pushing for support of Bernie Sanders' bill to ban Blackwater from Iraq. This seemed like a no-brainer to me, so I was actually barely reading through the e-mail until something caught my eye...
Barack does NOT support this bill. WTF?
And Hillary DOES support this bill. WTF? WTF???
So, I re-read the alert. And then started doing some research.
Sure enough, Barack is not supporting Sen Sanders. Odd, on the surface of it. So I started digging deeper to see if I could figure out why.
From The Nation
And what else do I find? Barack is supporting something even WORSE than doing nothing!
Barack's Solution
The assessment from the Nation:
"Apart from the fact that it would be impossible to effectively police such an enormous deployment of private contractors (at present basically equal to the number of active duty US troops in Iraq), the legislation would give the private military industry a tremendous PR victory. The companies could finally claim that a legally accountable structure governed their operations, yet they would be well aware that such legislation would be nearly impossible to enforce. Perhaps that is why the industry has passionately backed this approach."
Anyway, this is really just a simple call to action, passing along the concepts in the alert I received today.
We need to push Barack to support Sen Sanders' bill. I know it won't be easy, what with McSame trying to paint Barack as an "appeaser" every day. But it is really important (IMHO) to not put our ideals on hold during this election.
Bernie's Bill
WE HAVE TO STAND FOR SOMETHING!
And if opposing Blackwater isn't a (pardon the pun) black and white issue, I don't know what is.
Please, let's let Barack know, through whatever channels you normally use, that this is not something to be "expedient" about!!!
Thanks for listening!