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I'm trying to decide whether or not to go and vote for Kucinich anyway out here, or, if the California race looks close - Obama.
I'm just very concerned about him letting Donnie McClurkin emcee an event for him (the 'ex-gay' movement has been devastating to GLBT friends of mine AND it represented shameless pandering to religious social conservatives in the Democratic party); that having been said, however, I was SO disgusted watching Hillary in the debates. The woman was positively gleeful at the thought of dropping bombs on 'terrorists' (translation: looking tough on security while killing civilians).
Now, Hillary and I both graduated from law school. She was a practicing attorney. She knows that preemptive and preventative wars are illegal, as well as attacks on sovereign nations just because you have equated their government with terrorists (as Israel did). According to many international law experts, the U.S. violated the law when it invaded Iraq (we were in NO danger of imminent deadly attack, and we had no specific U.N. resolution authorizing attack at that time). I've never heard her state such.
I am encouraged that Obama, who taught ConLaw, stated that we never should have invaded Iraq.
Hillary also voted for Kyl-Lieberman, knowing full well that it was a trashing of the separation of powers. She knew that Shrub would interpret the language as authorizing an attack whenever he felt like it. She also, because she is beholden to the NeoCons/hawks, who donated to her, voted against the amendment precluding the sale of cluster bombs under certain conditions. She's a hawk, and I'm a peacemonger.
I've heard nothing from Hillary regarding restoring constitutional protections that have been lost.
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