An Open Letter to Senator Obama and the Democratic Leadership: On Election Night, DO NOT CONCEDE!
"Eight years is too much" is how Barack Obama explained why we must win the coming election and begin to restore America. But, even if we receive the most votes, will we win the election?
DO NOT CONCEDE!
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Anonymous2008-11-01 23:47
DO NOT CONCEDE!
Both of the last two elections were conceded by the Democratic presidential candidate. The 2004 election was handed to George Bush while votes were still being counted in closely-fought Ohio. While the 2000 election was contested to the Supreme Court, it too was ultimately conceded to Bush "for the good of the country." Some good.
Numerous politicians, investigators and authors, including Robert Kennedy, Jr., agree the 2004 election was stolen, not only in Ohio but in several other battleground states. Tactics included purging of legitimate voters and the use of nefarious voting software--but when even these actions did not yield the required numbers, Republican election officials simply changed the vote tallies in several states, all without a peep from the Democratic Party.
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Anonymous2008-11-01 23:47
DO NOT CONCEDE!
In the time since the last general election the public has learned much about these scandals, which have led some states to reject electronic touchscreen voting (and which caused the infamous Diebold voting machines corporation to hide behind a new corporate name,) yet the Democratic Party seems to have learned nothing.
THREE STRIKES AND WE'RE OUT!
If we cannot afford another Republican administration, we cannot afford a third concession in the face of election fraud. Already there is evidence of massive fraud such as voter purging and caging of Democratic voters, and "flipping" of votes in early voting on electronic touchscreen machines. It is reasonable to once again expect further manipulation on election night by some Republican operatives and election officials, as was seen in 2004; should we also expect our Democratic Party leaders and candidates to repeat history, by once again conceding in the face of such blatant fraud?
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Anonymous2008-11-01 23:47
Senator Obama, we need you, our Party and all candidates to stand firm, come what may on election night. You ask us to work for you, contribute to you--and to have your back; we ask that you promise to have our back: We ask that you PLEDGE TO STAND FIRM, AND NOT CONCEDE THE COMING ELECTION in the face of election irregularities, no matter how long it takes to contest such fraud, while there remains any doubt as to any part of the process. Be assured, Democratic voters will be more--not less--energized if we see you promise to stand firm.
Senator Obama, if there is any reason to contest the election, DO NOT CONCEDE!
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Anonymous2008-11-01 23:48
Signed: (Titles for identification purposes only)
Gore Vidal
Author
Bob Fitrakis,
Professor of Political Science, Columbus State Community College
Attorney; Editor of The Free Press (freepress.org)
Mark Crispin Miller,
Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University
Author of Fooled Again, How the Right Stole the 2004 Election
Why am I voting for Barack Obama instead of a third party candidate? Because I feel that we don't have the margin that many other Americans may feel they do have. I do feel viscerally threatened by a McCain victory and I do fear for the nation in a very immediate way under those circumstances and I feel that a third party vote will make a very valuable point and certainly ease my inner conflicts but it is not FOR ME a responsible outcome in this historical moment terms of the care I need to take of my family. I do feel, as I wrote, that an Obama victory will buy time fora citizens' movement that can dismantle the whole damn corrupt stinking thing. You can take issue with that reasoning but it is mine.
But most of all I feel, apart from my immediate concerns, that it is still being stuck in a false paradigm to look at Barack Obama or even Ron Paul as the mark of allegiance that matters most. There is not going to be a knight on a white horse if the people don't take a lead in creating the revolution themselves. I believe even Ron Paul would want us to see that real salvation is only really going to come from within.
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Anonymous2008-11-02 0:33
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