One of my closest friends is enjoying a lovely day in scalding-ass hot Iraq right now. There ain't much that I can do about it at the moment. Really there's only one thing I can do right now, actually. I'll vote in November, of course, but it ain't November. I just kicked $30 Obama's way. August is almost over. We need big numbers. We need a fully-funded campaign that can obliterate McCain's imperialistic dreams. I want my friend (and his 140,000 or so buddies) home as soon as possible.
John McCain is an impediment to bringing these fine men and women home soon. Even if he could be trusted to end the war in Iraq (and I do not trust him, frankly) he'll get us into a war with Iran just as quickly. The madness has to stop. War should be a last resort, not the first and only option.
We have a ticket. Obama/Biden is the first ticket of my adult life that I'm completely comfortable with. I was too young to vote for Clinton/Gore which is the only other ticket in my life I would have been this comfortable with.
Guys, please kick in some money. They're even giving out t-shirts for donations of $30 or more. Barack Obama opted out of public financing on the assumption he'd raise at least $50 million a month. He's done that, but only barely, so far.
This is my fifth or sixth donation, I think. Each have been small. They add up, however. $30 from me, $10 from you, and so on and that winds up being real money. We need our campaign to be able to strike back hard and fast when new smears come out. That takes money. I'm confident of victory but I'm not blind to the risks or the requirements.
I want my friend home safe, and I don't want him deployed into a war we never needed to fight, not ever again. John McCain has some good characteristics, I will gladly concede. However, the issue that matters most to me at this point in history is that the United States end this imperialistic/interventionist/hegemonic bender we've been on. Obama/Biden would be the correction that this country needs, that frankly the world needs. I can hold off on beer one week or two, I think, to facilitate that.
You guys in?
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