Well, I'm not surprised, 'Marty', to see you and other IMCers join LBOs 'Depress The Vote 2008' campaign, though I don't think you'll do very well.

Just why you or Henwood think this is the left or radical thing to do in this period is beyond me. Just using a lot of cynicism to avoid Sartre's 'Dirty Hands' choice is my guess.

Pittsburgh just had its antiwar rally--not modeled on Chicago Oct 27, more along your lines, but the 25 anarchists looked very cool with their body paint, masks, black clothes and flags. About 500 others on a nice day, about 100 with Obama buttons, which I talked to. So another one is not in the cards. About 22,000 did turn out for Obama at Penn State, though, cheering all his best lines on the war.

No, I'll throw your challenge back at you. How about CIMC going over to Trinty this Sunday and read Henwood's LBO piece, then telling people they shouldn't vote for Obama. Or try to get the Rev. Wright to support your 'Don't Vote for Obama' line.

You're not saying not to vote for Obama? You might do it yourself come election day? If so, what's the deal? You're in our camp, just in the shamefaced contingent cheating us out of dues.

In Chicago, though, you have a partial out if McKinney gets on the ballot. No such luck here and in some other states, though. If you go this route, you still face the task of whether you sneak into the polls by yourself, or get lots of antiwar people to go with you, whether their for McKinney or not. That would be cool, and you can even read Henwood to them all day. Most will still figure out what to do.

As for our website, I'd say it's not bad for six days, and there's a lot more going on on the ground. Read Thorn Dreyer's stuff from The Rag in Texas, or today's piece on their battle in the caucuses, and Thorn's a day-one P4O member. Now there's some folks with anarchist roots who managed to gain some politics over the years.