Reply #66: His voting record looks really impressive. [View All]

He's won my heart and my vote (if Diebold wasn't voting for me) as the next president of the US.

It's hard to imagine why he voted for Ashcroft, but I remember at the time that Ashcroft looked and seemed creepy crawly, but his appointment was before most of us had any idea of how quickly our democratic nation could deteriorate into a fascist state. So I guess for myself I could give him the benefit of the doubt for that one. Voting for Roberts, why? I don't get why any Democrat of conscience would do that, so it seems a black mark on his record, but other than that, he's extrememly impressive. The comment, "Give me liberty or give me death" will go down in my history as the most inspiring and patriotic position that I've seen any politician in Washington take since I can't remember when, maybe since Bobby Kennedy or Franklin Roosevelt.

Actually, if this were a perfect world, and this was the kind of nation that it's imagined to be by jingoists programmed like robots by the bloody corporate media's marketing fantasies, and if this was the nation that our Constitution and Bill of Rights make it if we had principled, moral leaders, then John Conyers would be elected president and Feingold, Boxer, or Dean would be vice president.

Hey, what can I say, it's almost New Years and a time that should allow for some idealistic binging.