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Obama = NO Change

Ah, here we are, witnessing yet another sell out... We are promised change, but what sort of change? The car is broken down, the tires are flat, the engine is leaking oil and smoking. So what do we get? A paint job! No change of anything important but it will be a new color! Oh goody. If only I could work up enough naivete to be shocked once again by a betrayal, but I can't really. Luckily I can still muster a bit of anger and outrage over it but what to do with that anger? It seems to me that the game is so far gone now that opposition just serves to make me grouchy for no good end.

From Foreign Policy in Focus:

Biden, Iraq, and Obama's Betrayal

Stephen Zunes | August 24, 2008

Editor: John Feffer

Incipient Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s selection of Joseph Biden as his running mate constitutes a stunning betrayal of the anti-war constituency who made possible his hard-fought victory in the Democratic primaries and caucuses.

The veteran Delaware senator has been one the leading congressional supporters of U.S. militarization of the Middle East and Eastern Europe, of strict economic sanctions against Cuba, and of Israeli occupation policies.

Most significantly, however, Biden, who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the lead-up to the Iraq War during the latter half of 2002, was perhaps the single most important congressional backer of the Bush administration’s decision to invade that oil-rich country.(Full Story is here)

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