Democratic Caucuses: Opportunity to talk about 9/11

This is about a month late, but I found myself giving the speech for Mike Gravel at my precinct caucaus today, since everyone else was Obama or Hillary. After a bit about how I don't like the corporate media deciding who is a viable candidate, and remarking on how on how there was more competition at the 2004 caucus, I mentioned Gravel's opposition to racist and genocidal wars in the Middle East. I then said that Obama is saying he is going to get bin Laden, and that anyone who looks carefully at 9/11knows it a basically a fraud being perpetuated on the American people, that is resulting in much killing in the Middle East. I responded to the speaker for Obama who compared him to Martin Luther King, saying that with all due respect, they cannot be compared. I had a nice chat with the Obama speaker afterwards, who was an African-American woman. She said she basically agrees but he has to say that stuff to get elected. I had nice chats about politics with a couple of other people too. Met my neighbors, and mentioned 9/11. That's about it.

The other thing I realized is that I could have submitted a resolution for the party platform, which gets reviewed at the state level. I wish I had submitted a resolution calling for an investigation of 9/11. It could be simple. Here's an example on low-income housing:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4255791

Maine tomorrow, Hawaii on February 19, Wyoming on March 8, and Puerto Rico on June 7 are the only caucuses left. Oh well.

Brother, can you spare me son "Change'?

"I responded to the speaker for Obama who compared him to Martin Luther King, saying that with all due respect, they cannot be compared. I had a nice chat with the Obama speaker afterwards, who was an African-American woman. She said she basically agrees but he has to say that stuff to get elected."

Doh! No shit.

Wish you had video that.

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She was agreeing about war and genocide

Not my comment about Martin Luther King. But she didn't seemed offended by that or anything I said, and was really cool. It's kind of depressing to think that she seemed to know the war on terror is bogus and wrong but that Obama has to say that. I said I don't like pandering. I didn't bring up 9/11 again, but none of the people I talked to seemed to think I was weird because I said that. Except maybe the nice old lady that ran the caucus - I asked her a question about the process afterwards and she seemed uncomfortable. Maybe that was just because she didn 't expect anyone to speak for gravel - I had to remind her that I was supposed to speak since I was the only one who preferred him and the format said somebody had to speak for him.