Today’s News and Observer has an article on the “Peace” booth at the state fair. The interesting thing about this booth is that while it featured petitions on a number of items including one on dismantling the Wake County schools diversity program, it really had nothing about war and peace. Probably the most obvious petition that I could imagine for a pacifist group to be circulating would be one calling for a withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, but not for these folks. There was nothing that would put them in opposition to any policies of the Obama Administration. When I approached the booth this year I asked them why there was no such petition to sign and suggested that it might be because there was a Democrat in the White House. Those “personing” the booth responded with a nervous laugh.