Albany Green Party opposes Clinton nomination
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  The Capital District Green Party just issued a statement opposing Hillary Clinton’s nomination for secretary of state. The group is criticizing President-elect Barack Obama’s selection, saying it “contradicted the anti-war rhetoric he initially based his campaign on.”
  The party described Obama’s foreign-policy team as “hawkish,” “right of center” and not in line wiht the views of most Americans.
  “When Senator Obama launched his campaign, much of his appeal to voters in the primaries was his initial opposition to the invasion of Iraq during his time as a state senator. During the presidential primaries, Obama positioned himself as a peace candidate despite his consistent votes for furing the Iraq War during his time in the U.S. Senate. Senator Clinton has refused to admit that her support for the invasion of Iraq was a mistake,” said Howie Hawkins, New York Green Party nominee for U.S. Senate in 2006.Â
  The party said it wants Gov. David Paterson to appoint a Senate replacement for Clinton who is “more in touch with New York voters on issues such as peace, combating climate change and supporting single-payer universal health care than Clinton was.”
  The party has other objections to Clinton, including that she embraced the Bush administration’s “propaganda campaign” for invading Iraq and she voted for the Patriot Act. The Greens also have problems with Robert Gates, President Bush’s defense secretary, who is being asked to stay on by Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and others. No one who opposed the war in Iraq is being considered for a cabinet post in the Obama administration, according to the party.
  “The Democrats told the American people that the best way to reject Bush and his various wars was by giving the Dems control of the White House and Congress. Now that they won, once again the Democrats are giving the American people something quite different. Putting the Clinton White House back together was not the change that Senator Obama talked about during his campaign,” said Mark Dunlea of the Capital District Greens.
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And who exactly cares about what the Albany Greens think? These are the same self-righteous clowns that helped get Bush elected in 2000, then didn’t even have the strength of character to admit their role.
The Iraq war, the corporate giveaways, the gross mismanagement of the economy, and the endless series of lies and scandals from our outgoing president are all the result of the green party’s unquenchable lust for attention.
well said..the minor parties in new york are in the
extortion business….
As yes indeed, it was the Greens that cost Al Gore his home state of Tennessee in 2000. ANd it was Nader that told Bill Clinton that he couldn’t campaign in Arkansas in 2000, another state they lost. It actually was the Greens that started the protest over stolen votes in Florida in 2000 but Gore didn’t want to stand up to the Republican theft, it’s not what nice Democrats do, they might get nasty comments on the Georgetown cocktail circuit.
And it was the Greens who did stand up and challenge Bush after 9/11, while the Democrats tripped over themselves to cheerlead the war on terrorism at home and abroad. 9/11 was when we needed a real oppostion party to stand up to the dark forces that were unleashed (the neoCons) and the Democrats as usual were MIA.
Echoing my esteemed colleague, Kermit I, it was the Greens who contested the stolen election in 2004, in Ohio, when Kerry ordered his staff to stand down.