The so-called "progressive independents," the purity folks who wanted John Edwards or Nader or Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn are heartless zealots who show no regard for the ordinary people who suffer from these Lefties' radicalism. Their protests and abandonment of America at the voting booth helped give us George Bush over Gore and Kerry and the subsequent devastation in Iraq. They're the mirror image of the Far Right dressed up in equally self-righteous language. Humphrey, Carter, Mondale, Gore, Kerry, Obama--no different than the Republicans, as Chomsky opines? That's the most heinous, consequential kind of self-deception. Tell it to the millions of Americans with no health care and legions of other people who have suffered from the Republican takeover in the ghettos of our cities.
Henceforth, these Far Leftoids should be completely ignored. To make comments in their threads only furthers their cause--self-aggrandizement disguised as hyper-patriotism. (I'll calm down and say this stuff more empathically at some point, but I'm pissed to the max about what they're doing to undermine Obama's candidacy. The effects of their efforts truly are devastating.) finis