- Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of the death penalty for federal or state crimes.
- Neither candidate is interested in eliminating or reducing the 5,113 US nuclear warheads.
- Neither candidate is campaigning to close Guantanamo prison.
- Neither candidate has called for arresting and prosecuting high ranking people on Wall Street for the subprime mortgage catastrophe.
- Neither candidate is interested in holding anyone in the Bush administration accountable for the torture committed by US personnel against prisoners in Guantanamo or in Iraq or Afghanistan.
- Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of drones to assassinate people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia.
- Neither candidate is against warrantless surveillance, indefinite detention, or racial profiling in fighting “terrorism.”
- Neither candidate is interested in fighting for a living wage. In fact neither are really committed beyond lip service to raising the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour – which, if it kept pace with inflation since the 1960s should be about $10 an hour.
- Neither candidate was interested in arresting Osama bin Laden and having him tried in court.
- Neither candidate will declare they refuse to bomb Iran.
- Neither candidate is refusing to take huge campaign contributions from people and organizations.
- Neither candidate proposes any significant specific steps to reverse global warming.
- Neither candidate is talking about the over 2 million people in jails and prisons in the US.
- Neither candidate proposes to create public jobs so everyone who wants to work can.
- Neither candidate opposes the nuclear power industry. In fact both support expansion.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Neither Candidate
Posted by
spiderlegs
Labels:
2012,
Mitt Romney,
President Barack Obama,
presidential election
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