Many (most?) folks on the left agree that Obama is the more sensible (or “less crazy”) candidate than McCain, but that Obama is clearly not a leftist candidate.  Faced with the choice of Obama versus McCain, rational people will choose Obama, but what is the extent should that be taken?  Should rational people campaign for the Democrat candidate (who will always be slightly less destructive than the Republican candidate) every  election?  Isn’t this at some point perpetuating and enabling a system of the “slightly lesser evil”, thus ensuring that evil continues?  Are folks willing to defend themselves to an Aghani who has lost her family due to Obama’s proposed escalation of the occupation there, if he were to become president?

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