Haiku Politics

Michael Berg, the father of Nick Berg, whose beheading in Iraq was videotaped, is running an antiwar campaign for Congress as a Green in Delaware. The New York Times article reports that

As he bicycles across the state giving speeches at schools and churches and holding fund-raising house parties, he says he has found a receptive audience, not just to his call for an immediate withdrawal of all American forces from Iraq but also to the rest of his platform: universal health care, a livable wage and increased spending on education.

"A lot of voters are frustrated by the lack of options beyond the two major parties," Mr. Berg said. "And a lot of these people have not been voting before."

The article adds a comment that Berg made which should be nominated for quote of the year:

Mr. Berg said that he was originally approached by a representative of the state's Democratic Party to oppose Mr. Castle but that he opted to go with the Greens because "the Democrats have the money to get the message out, but they have the wrong message."

Indeed, that is the problem with the Democrats--they have the wrong message. As if to underscore this point, in the next paragraph of the article, we see a quote from the Democratic Party candidate for Congress, Dennis Spivak, who said, "We don't want to pull out in a way that will make things worse in that region, especially at a time when Iraq is on the verge of a civil war." This is pretty much the standard position of the Democratic Party--a reluctance, if not outright opposition, to an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Even John Murtha's supposed "immediate" withdrawal from Iraq is nothing but a redeployment to elsewhere in the region, and it isn't even particularly immediate.

Posted by The Haikuist on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 11:15 AM | Permalink