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With the Democratic National Convention in full swing, Tom Hayden believes that Senator Joe Biden "will not be a progressive element on Senator Barrack Obama" and that his selection as Obama's running mate is not "a step in any direction." Hayden goes on to state that, "the democrats are in danger of decoupling the war from the recession and high oil prices."
hopefully Obama starts to let in anti-war veterans etc...
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Great quote...
HAYDEN: I think that Michelle Obama and the speech writer, the young man, are probably the antiwar advisors. There are no antiwar advisors who have national security credentials. It's one of the diseases of our state that to be a "national security expert," quote-unquote, you have to have been wrong on several wars, apparently, but you had to go to Georgetown, and you had to do the right PhDs, and you always approached things from the narrow view of America's interests. So these 300 advisors, none of them are frontally against American foreign policy. They are against the Iraq War because it's gone sour, and that's a small distinction that is important. The debate is between one set of advisors who think we should go farther—the McCain advisors—and another who think we should cut our losses and redeploy and refocus—that's the Obama advisors. That's not a broad enough debate. We need a populist debate, we need an antiwar voice, and it has to come from the voters and from other politicians who are hearing the pressure of their voters, the Out of Iraq Caucus, and so on.
Another good quote...
HAYDEN: Oh, I think Obama and Biden, particularly Obama, are more rational, cool, you know, subject to arguments back and forth. It's a little like when, I remember, John Kennedy was elected. We were very, very unhappy, 'cause he ran supporting the Green Berets and he invented a fake missile crisis against Nixon, then he implemented the Bay of Pigs, and he learned the catastrophic problem of depending on your advisors, who are not your friends. They are there to perpetuate some of their interests, and they're using you. And he became much more of a civil-rights and pro-peace president through that experience before he was murdered. And I would hope that Obama doesn't have to go through the same experience.
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