Raise Your Voice
MoveOn.org is hosting a virtual town hall meeting this Tuesday, with many of the top contenders for the President gig addressing members' questions about Iraq. Anyone can attend a local house party to watch the proceedings. Go here to find a location near you, or to sign up to host one yourself.
Suggested questions:
How long will it take you to begin criminal proceedings against the BushCheneyRumsfeldRoveHalliburton war conglomerate?
How long can we make them stay in Gitmo?
How soon will you re-establish relations with Cuba and then start selling tickets for American tourists to jeer outside the gates of Gitmo?
Will the rocks and rotten fruit be free or will they cost extra?
Will there also be a pay-per-view? If so, when, and for how long? Can we make it a "Truman Show" kind of thing?
The money should be used for: paying for the best medical care for all troops as long as they need it, with the rest going to Iraqi children so they won't attack us when they grow up. (Ok, yeah, that's not a question, but let's not get too technical.)
posted by AmyV at 7:29 PM
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Another suggested question: "Will Nancy Pelosi be prosecuted for allegedly violating the Logan Act" (as suggested in an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal).
My question to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, Dennis Kucinich, and Joe Biden is, "Why are you appearing at an event hosted by what is arguably an anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic hate organization?"
In 2005, MoveOn.org published a derogatory picture of Pope Benedict waving a gavel outside the U.S. Supreme Court. The theme was identital to Thomas Nast's "The Catholics are taking over America" cartoons of the 19th century. (Google on "MoveOn.org" and "Pope Benedict" in image searches to see this cartoon, mostly yellow in color.)
Until it was taken down in disgrace in September 2006, MoveOn's Action Forum, with the full knowledge and approval of the moderators who were exercising editorial control over it, served as a platform for anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, and anti-Evangelical hate speech, with prominent (Republican) African-Americans being denounced with racist terms.
Furthermore, MoveOn's own credibility is totally shot as far as "ending the war" goes. Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan says it fabricated a poll that misrepresented its members' views, and that Eli Pariser is a "wannabee power broker." Does MoveOn exist to serve its 3.2 million rank and file members, or the ambitions of Eli Pariser?
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Re: "paying for the best medical care for all troops as long as they need it." Our troops are entitled to that. The situation at Walter Reed's outpatient facilities is appalling. I do not think the Bush Administration has done a very good job but, when Democrats offer alternatives like John Kerry (who consorted arm in arm not only with MoveOn.org but a prominent racist and anti-Semite like Al Sharpton), how do you expect people to vote?
Had the Dems put up "Jew Lieberman" as MoveOn's people called him, as opposed to Kerry, Bush would be back in Crawford Texas right now.
8:26 PM
I do not at all agree with or defend this diatribe, but his right to say what he thinks is what democracy is all about. If people had stood up instead of allowing themselves to be threatened and accused of being traitors about that sort of thing 5 years ago, Bush would be back in Crawford Texas right now.
2:52 PM
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