Goodness, listen to yourselves...

Jan already does call on people to fill the streets, and to keep the demos up and get bigger, and has marched in most demos in this town herself.

Ald. Moore already does call for a complete cutoff of funds, and probably will again on the 27th.

We'll have a number of vets on stage calling for a growth of resistance in the military, and the military families speaker and gold star mothers speaker will deliver another message on cutting off funds.

And I'd be very surprised if more than one speaker didn't talk to the topic of impeachment.

Now Gannon calling for a general strike--that's indeed more than a stretch, but don't you think it's a step in a good direction to get him up there in the first place?

And I'm also applauding those who got arrested at Durbin's office--Operation Occupation has been part of UFPJ's Fall plan from day one. What some of you don't see is that there's more than one way to bring pressure to bear on people like him, including a challenge to deliver a strong message to an 'Out Now' crowd, a challenge he hasn't accepted.

Politicians asking you to vote? How Shocking! But you'll have tables from PDA, Greens, Richardson, Ron Paul of the GOP, and maybe even Kucinich to choose from. Or you can do something else on election day.

No, there's four problems revealed in the comments here.

1. Some of you cling to the desire for a coalition of the left, rather than a coalition of the left and center for 'Out Now.'

2. Some of you think you're immune to the 'illusions' of politicians, while many in the crowd will be suckered like sheep, a rather disdainful view of people instead of simply acknowledging widely different viewpoints among the antiwar masses themselves.

3. At least one of you thinks we gotta make it worse before it gets better, like bring back the draft, making people suffer more, and then drag them in that way. Again, a rather disdainful, elitist view.

4. Finally some of you are TIRED of demos. Well, too bad. All of us are tired, but not that tired that we're going to stop, or let up one bit. Get your butt out there anyway, and bring someone who has never been to one before. Get outside your damned comfort zone of 'tired of marching' people, which is less than 20,000 people in this town, and get into a milieu of people who are critical of this war and have never been to a mass action on the war, and organize them to come.

It does wonders for lifting your spirits and recharging 'tired' batteries.