Saturday, May 31, 2008

Negotiation and Voting - Best Example Why It is Naive and Dangerous

There are many Obamessiah followers who support him because he wants to talk, not fight. With Obama, you would get someone who would listen and discuss rather than someone who will war and kill.

The problem is, discussion is not always up to you and sometimes, silly rabbit, in your naivete, you place millions at risk and you do not have that right.

Iran on Saturday reiterated that it will not discuss halting uranium enrichment ahead of the arrival of a top international envoy expected to propose new incentives aimed at encouraging Iran to do so.

"The issue of suspension cannot be discussed any more, we have passed this point and it is not relevant. Iran's position is clear on this point," government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters.


THEY REFUSE TO DISCUSS it. So what then? They refuse. So you find yourself in a position of arguing for something that is foolish and stupid and quite one-sided. You argue for isolation, on your part. No one else is talking about negotiation - it failed.

So what then? Go to the UN? And what will they do? Be very careful because the next words out of your mouth turn you into a spokesman for the Bush administration because that has been their policy.

The US policy is and has been: pursue a two-track policy of the UN and using sanctions against Iran for its failure to halt uranium enrichment, while also holding out offers of economic and other incentives if it stops such work.

So voting for Obama isn't because you believe negotiation is always best, it isn't and this example shows how it isn't up to you. Voting for him is not because he has experience - he only has a few years more than you or I. It isn't because you want him to stop spending trillions of dollars and increasing the debt - because a .7% tax on our GDP to erase world poverty would surely increase the debt especially with the increase of trillions in federal spending for health care. It can't be because he wants to save the environment, for in his haste to save the environment he will starve the poor at home and abroad (and not because we do not produce enough, but because the poor will not be able to afford to eat).

Just so we are clear - not because of experience, not because he will cut the debt, not because negotiation under all conditions. I am quickly running out of rational reasons.

In the end you will say - just because, or because he isn't Bush. Think about that and what you just said - you told me it doesn't need logic or reason, you acted purely on emotion, driven by gut feeling and passion. You are also probably quite harsh on people who embrace their Bibles or believe Jesus is the greatest philosopher for those nuts on the right, driven by ........... ? You however are very different for you are driven by the right kind of passion and emotion.

Yep. So saith Hitler and Mussolini. Same pod.






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