
On the eve of the election, let me post a socialist view of this race. I watched the final debate
with a friend, and it was clear to both of us that Obama had won, if only because McCain had
so clearly lost. Obama was calm, while McCain was an old and angry man.
Barring some remarkable shift in the polls, Obama has won the campaign, very possibly by
a landslide. I've been chided with an email from a fellow radical because I don't view McCain as
a war criminal, and that is an interesting part of the McCain campaign that is worth a look.
War is a crime, no matter who, when, or where. It was Sherman who said, of his march through
Georgia in our Civil War, "war is hell". General Omar Bradley said, after World War II,
"Aggressive war is a crime. But defensive war is also a crime. The problem is sometimesread more »