Run like Bush Lite, then blame Nader when you lose.

I'm John Kerry... Reporting for duty! If you wanted to enter the DNC make sure there are no peace signs on your clothes... that's not the message the DNC wants to make. The only message is ABB...

The Anybody But Bush left slanders Ralph Nader -- How can they defend Kerry?

NOW THAT delegates have emerged from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) "united" and "on message," the Anybody But Bush (ABB) left might want to pause for a moment of self-reflection--at its own culpability in selling Kerry as an antiwar candidate, despite all evidence to the contrary, while slandering the genuine antiwar candidacy of Ralph Nader and running mate Peter Camejo.

In June, the Green Party’s Medea Benjamin prefaced her rejection of the Nader-Camejo ticket by stating, "I totally support their antiwar, anti-corporate, pro-democracy message"--before warning that Nader and Camejo "might well help elect George Bush. This would be disastrous for our party, our country and our planet."

Peace signs were forcibly removed upon entering the Fleet Center, and Medea Benjamin herself was forcibly removed after she held up an anti-occupation banner. A Boston Globe poll showed that an overwhelming 95 percent of delegates to the DNC oppose the war in Iraq, yet the Democrats unanimously adopted a pro-war 2004 platform that would have made Barry Goldwater proud.

DNC FAN: "No peace signs allowed? What do I care, this is a Mercedes Benz shirt!" DNC REP: "Sorry highness... step right through to the sky box". Medea Benjamin's booted out after holding up an anti-war banner. Doesn't Medea know her banner may offend the 5% for the occupation. (insert your favorite 5% controls the 95% analogy here) The plot thickens...

The Democratic platform even puts Iran on notice--"a nuclear-armed Iran is an unacceptable risk to us and our allies"--while portending ominously, "With John Kerry as commander-in-chief, we will never wait for a green light from abroad when our safety is at stake."

Greenlight from NATO, the UN... Norwegian Polka Club? Didn't Kerry slam Bush for not obtaining a green light? We'll, at least he's the lesser of two EEE-VILS...

On July 16, Kerry was even more explicit about his war plans, when Wall Street Journal reporters asked Kerry whether he expects to have U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of his first term. He replied, "At the end of my first term, I would consider it a failure of my diplomacy if we haven't reduced the number significantly." (Translation: "Don’t hold your breath.")

How much lesser is this E-VIL again?

The ABB’s pre-emptive support for Kerry amounted to a self-fulfilling prophecy--leaving the rest of us to wonder what might have happened if the entire left had united behind an actual antiwar candidate, instead of smearing Nader simply because he is outside the Democratic Party.

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