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As I was perusing the Hawaii tag on DailyKos, I came across this excellent commentary in response to one of the pro-Case members of the site. It starts off with this:

you say something like this:

I’m an environmentalist; Ed supports the environment; Akaka doesn’t.

That’s just nonsense. You want to reduce ANWR down to this silly superficial baby harp seal kind of ideal thing, but it’s not. You cannot just dismiss the indigenous mineral rights angle simply because it complicates your black or white narrative. You are smarter than that.

I particularly like this passages:

You care about “the environment”? What kind of friggin’ environment are the people, or let me get cheap here– what kind of “environment” are the “women and children” of Iraq facing? Do you give a damn about the massive poisoning of THEIR environment by depleted uranium that your boy is enthusiastically supporting? How’s about unexploded cluster bombs strewn across the countryside? Does that fit in your narrow definition of an “environmental issue”?

I am very familiar with the notion that Arab lives are not worth paying attention to, so I can understand that the war in Iraq might be a low priority for you, but why are you such a stereotyped yuppie liberal, supporting the right of first world professionals to party however their “lifestyle” leads them, but not getting upset by the current Bush (and Case) plans to militarily dominate the world and mow down those that oppose them? And, then, mow down those who want to avenge their family members killed in the first round?

Yes, it gets vitriolic… but that is how the dialog has been in this race. People are very emotional about the WAR, so are equally emotional when they defend the anti-war candidate.

Kossaks have been arguing back and forth on the merits and records of Akaka & Case… it makes an interesting read if you find time.