Comments on: Bob Barr as part of political realignment in U.S. http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/21/bob-barr-as-part-of-political-realignment-in-us/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:45:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Steve Newton http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/21/bob-barr-as-part-of-political-realignment-in-us/#comment-707764 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:20:09 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/21/bob-barr-as-part-of-political-realignment-in-us/#comment-707764 Absolutely correct, John. http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2008/07/sometimes-your-strange-bedfellows-are.html Absolutely correct, John.

http://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2008/07/sometimes-your-strange-bedfellows-are.html

]]> by: John Lowell http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/21/bob-barr-as-part-of-political-realignment-in-us/#comment-707400 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:34:24 +0000 http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/07/21/bob-barr-as-part-of-political-realignment-in-us/#comment-707400 Glenn Greenwald's new initiative has all the authenticity of a George Bush promise. The Accountability Now/Strange Bedfellows "coalition", when examined carefully, is nothing more than an attempt to syphon off potential third-party, independent and anti-system votes in the direction of the Obama candidacy. Pretending to be in rebellion with fellow “progressives” and allied “libertarians” against those members of the Democratic Congress that have consistently sided with the Republicans on the war and on privacy questions, Greenwald’s out there to get them alreight. Why he’s going to go right into their districts and run embarrasing ads, that’s what he’s going to do. But all of that outrage won’t have anything to do with the Obama candidacy. No sir, Obama, his FISA vote and his AIPAC grovelling are going to get a pass. As Greenwald himself explained it when first describing this sham undertaking: “Speaking only for myself, anyone devoted to these issues ought to prefer an Obama presidency to a McCain presidency, and those are the only two choices.” It never seems to occur to Greenwald - or to Barr - that any meaningful accountability is an accountability of the system, not simply isolated aspects of it. And no, “those” aren’t “the only two choices”, there are Nader and Baldwin besides. Greenwald just has to be one of the most formidable self-promoters since Rush Limbaugh came on the scene and that requires his being system through and through, of course. In this respect, Greenwald never disappoints. With all the kvetching he manages about perfidious Democrats, when it really counts, Greenwald has no more courage than they do. Some vision for schlemeil, Bob Barr, to be supporting, eh? Glenn Greenwald’s new initiative has all the authenticity of a George Bush promise. The Accountability Now/Strange Bedfellows “coalition”, when examined carefully, is nothing more than an attempt to syphon off potential third-party, independent and anti-system votes in the direction of the Obama candidacy.
Pretending to be in rebellion with fellow “progressives” and allied “libertarians” against those members of the Democratic Congress that have consistently sided with the Republicans on the war and on privacy questions, Greenwald’s out there to get them alreight. Why he’s going to go right into their districts and run embarrasing ads, that’s what he’s going to do. But all of that outrage won’t have anything to do with the Obama candidacy. No sir, Obama, his FISA vote and his AIPAC grovelling are going to get a pass. As Greenwald himself explained it when first describing this sham undertaking:

“Speaking only for myself, anyone devoted to these issues ought to prefer an Obama presidency to a McCain presidency, and those are the only two choices.”

It never seems to occur to Greenwald – or to Barr – that any meaningful accountability is an accountability of the system, not simply isolated aspects of it. And no, “those” aren’t “the only two choices”, there are Nader and Baldwin besides.

Greenwald just has to be one of the most formidable self-promoters since Rush Limbaugh came on the scene and that requires his being system through and through, of course. In this respect, Greenwald never disappoints. With all the kvetching he manages about perfidious Democrats, when it really counts, Greenwald has no more courage than they do. Some vision for schlemeil, Bob Barr, to be supporting, eh?

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