Sam Webb follows Obama's lead and in the same vein he writes in complete abstractions utilizing fancy sounding rhetoric amounting to nothing of substance.
I have been working with my union on a campaign promoting Kucinich's bill for Medicare for All, HR 676.
I intend to vote for Obama and I am very enthusiastically supporting him. I go out every Sunday distributing his campaign fliers in my community.
As I campaign for Obama I tell people I am not happy with his health care proposals. I am for kicking the insurance companies right out of the picture.
I want to know why Sam Webb would not be talking critically about Obama's health care reforms and talking about the need to build support for HR 676.
I don't want Bush to have a third term through John McCain. Wouldn't it have been wiser for Sam Webb to have offered critical support for Obama and put forth communist suggestions for solving many problems?
Sam Webb references William Foster in trying to sell us on his new ideas and new opportunities. Foster was very clear and self-critical in stating that he didn't think the CPUSA leadership was critical enough of FDR.
I don't see where Mr. Gluck sees anything in here about "incremental change as the way to get to socialism." Did Mr. Gluck read the same article I am reading here?
I see new opportunities in getting people to stand up for their rights because of the bad problems capitalism is making for people.
I wonder how Sam Webb and Mr. Gluck see us doing anything without starting organizations that take up our problems. I use health care as one example because I am working on this problem. I feel very bad that I have to work for a candidate who doesn't support our right to health care.
If socialism comes in "increments" does that mean reforms like health care will come in increments?
I am sorry I don't see where Sam Webb and Mr. Gluck are going with this incrementalism. I don't quite see how we will get anything.
In a way I don't think Sam Webb is being honest with people.
Not a single solution is advanced by Sam Webb. This should be contrasted with William Foster's position regarding FDR. Foster and the CPUSA literally wrote the New Deal Reforms and insisted FDR implement this program.
If we use Social Security as our example when would we have gotten it? I don't think we would have Social Security now if Foster had taken advice from Sam Webb and Mr. Gluck.
I am not a member of the CPUSA so maybe I shouldn't be putting my ideas in here. I am not against the CPUSA. To be honest I am sort of afraid to join the CPUSA. Not because I disagree with anything just because it seems like such a big step to take. Socialism seems to be so far off according to Sam Webb and Mr. Gluck it's almost like they are saying there is no need for a Communist Party anyways. Maybe something for my great grandchildren to consider joining.
Ruby Magnusson, a home health care worker, Munising, Michigan
