Whatever blathering Carl gives out as excuses, the reality is that he and a handful of other key Chicago Oct. 27 organizers are Obama supporters and/or allied with Daley. They drive the rightward-looking strategy of Oct. 27, against the anti-war funding wishes of the movement, and then scream "unity unity unity" and expect us to take this crap.

It's really sad when people's passionate anti-war beliefs are crassly manipulated into supporting a partisan political agenda.

I'm not a Kucinich supporter (he, like the rest of them will use tough language to draw people into the Party, and then deliver up their support to whatever retrograd corporate shill who inevitably will be crowned the nominee), but Rachel's question is apropos -- is Ohio in the Midwest?

Why should a candidate who pledges to keep troops in Iraq through 2013 be honored with a speaking invitation, except that he's an ally of the organizers?

After protesting torture thousands of miles away at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, can any peace AND justice organization stomach an event which offers a speaker slot to a mayor who has been leading the cover-up of decades of torture of African Americans right here in Chicago?