I am delighted to introduce some new compatriots today. I had the good fortune of figuring out how to link to other people's blogs. And learned a new word. Blogroll! It's like toilet papering someone's house, except more good natured. Anyway, it's a good thing. Now I can vibe with the other thoughtful dudettes out there in the blogosphere.
Meet Deborah, representing Pumas4Change, and Red, the delightful lady behind Hillary Feminist. Looking forward to conversations to come.
To throw out another open-ended question:
What are you guys' biggest priorities policy-wise? What's the number one issue for you in the election?
For me, it was foreign policy and Iraq, hands down. The more time goes on, though, the more everything else starts to appear to be in disarray as well. It's unnerving.
1 comment:
It's hard to argue with Iraq as a “top” priority, but consider that it has been nearly a half a century since Eisenhower's "Military Industrial Complex" speech, and since then there has been steady progression in the privatization of military and security apparatus. So imagine that we get our guy in the White House, and he manages to bring our troops home from Iraq. Aren’t the military/corporate interest capable of dragging us off to a new adventure? Getting out of Iraq seems like fixing the roof on a home which is floating away in a flood: the rain stops falling in your bedroom, but it doesn’t exactly solve your problem.
How about bringing a close the era of privatization, and a return to an orientation toward public infrastructure and rational regulation of credit and commerce? Not that I think Blackwater for example will go away without a fight, but at least you’d have goals that would targeting the disease, not just the symptoms.
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