“Letter to the Editor” submitted for publication in Labor World

Carl Davidson 

It's not in my power to 'make' you 'believe me', Sally. All I can do is present my views, and you can assess them, and do what you will. You're responsible for your own choices. I have a fairly public track record, locally and nationally, over many years, as does Hayden. That Maki chooses to reduce this to 'Pol Pot lover' and' Zionist Murderer of Palestinians' ought to tell you something about him and his way on doing politics, more so than myself and Hayden, who are neither of these things. In any case, Obama is not running against Hilary. My guess is that it will be against McCrytal-Palin, or some other Afghan war general pared with her. But who knows? We'll wait and see, and assess our choices as it gets closer. In the meantime, fight against war and austerity.

This is a most interesting response as Davidson did in fact support Pol Pot. Oh, well, forget that; Pol Pot was then, the new killer now is Obama--- but, again, excuses, very similar excuses, are made for Obama as what were created and fabricated by Davidson to justify his support for Pol Pot.

Then he goes on to ridicule--- very cleverly without denying the truth--- that Tom Hayden was a poster boy for the Israeli killing machine in return for getting support from the AIPAC lobbyists to become a state legislator in California.

Davidson then goes on to say that neither him nor Hayden are either of these things; maybe yesterday for which they should be forgiven--- but not now. In six years they will then proclaim "we are not for Obama."

The fact is, both Davidson and Hayden have been misleading people for years pretending to be of the left.

After they screw everyone over they find a "new" gimmick to lure people away from real struggles for peace and social justice.

The Israeli's need a "peace activist" to provide them with cover for their atrocities against the Palestinian people--- for four decades Tom Hayden provided this cover for the Israeli killing machine which also divided the anti-war movement; now, just in time, he re-invents himself as a peace activist just in time to provide cover for another warmonger: Barack Obama. Again dividing the people's movements for peace and social justice. Coincidental? You bet; just like a fixed race at the track. Again he brings along his old buddy Carl Davidson to intimidate, bully and badger, and sucks in a bunch of people who want to make money selling books and articles about why progressives should be for Obama.

In January 2009, John Nichols, who is a member of the Progressive Democrats of America--- which claims a national membership of over 75,000 people active in the Democratic Party, wrote an article in The Progressive magazine entitled: "How To Push Obama." One does not have to be any kind of brainiac to figure out that an organization of 75,000 members has tremendous "pushing power." But, no matter how many member an organization has to be set up in a way to "push." Has anyone seen a 75,000 strong PDA  pushing Obama to do anything? Here in Minnesota, the biggest mobilization PDA had was a vicious red-baiting campaign against me to undermine support for the resolution I wrote supporting single-payer universal health care; a resolution that passed with opposition from PDA. PDA Minnesota and the National PDA are now pushing a phony piece of legislation called the Minnesota Health Act--- just like they undermined support for single-payer at the National Democratic Party Convention.

PDA has an interesting way of "pushing Obama;" apparently helping to "push Obama" into the arms of Wall Street because that is the only direction PDA has pushed Obama. 

According to Carl Davidson this is all part of a plan to work together with "high-road" capitalists who he refuses to name out of fear people will accuse him of working with "low-road" capitalists... you know, the kind of capitalists that push wars and austerity.

When will Carl Davidson, Tom Hayden and Tim Carpenter bring the 75,000 strong PDA into the struggles against war and austerity to "push Obama?"

Yes; Carl Davidson, Tom Hayden and Tim Carpenter bring the 75,000 strong PDA will continue to "wait and see as it gets closer." The, all over again, we will hear, "Our only choice is Barack Obama." And we are all supposed to shiver and shake and quake in fear that these Republicans might start a war and try to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan for the next 100 plus years like the Philippines or Puerto Rico. Or 60 years like South Korea. No doubt we will even be told the Republicans will initiate austerity measures.


I find it most interesting that Barack Obama has apparently divided the left into two camps: one good; the other bad. Carl Davidson and Tom Hayden are very patient with Obama and his wars; then you have the bad left that demands peace--- of all things, peace now.