running a woman or black as the dem candidate is that any dem will beat any repub.

but a nation that elected nixon, and dubya, twice has vast reserves of malignant idiocy.

when jmac steps to the podium and announces that conscription will be necessary for the next surge, will you still be glad you're so progressive?

are elections just deck-chair re-arrangement? sure. is obama's 'change' mantra just a superficial hook? you bet. is america doomed? sure thing. does anyone care? not visibly.

it's discouraging, but the usa was designed to be run by an upper class in a world where change was slow and escape to the frontier was possible. the constitution is hopelessly obsolete, the society it shaped is moribund, and the only real concern of the mob is with bread and circuses.

mike gravel, dennis kucinich, even ron paul, see that change, real change is necessary. gravel even had a plan to do it. the elite turned them into unpeople, the dimwits concentrated on the spread, the chatterati prosed endlessly on the color and gender of the candidates, and the band played on.

shouldn't you at least demand that they run primaries in each state? it would create a veneer of giving democracy lip-service.

actual democracy would not break out, but a nation whose foreign conquests are justified as 'spreading democracy' will profit from giving color to the lie.

i think i see why large chunks of america are looking seedy. divert half that money into productive things like schools and hospitals, public transport and green initiatives, then gradually things will get better.

in the short term, obama's plan looks best. or if the m-i complex is 'too hard', do each in turn. ron paul's plan should be last, though. by then america will be using barter and bicycle generators outside the military bases, and the gold standard will be appropriate.

i think i see why large chunks of america are looking seedy. divert half that money into productive things like schools and hospitals, public transport and green initiatives, then gradually things will get better.

in the short term, obama's plan looks best. or if the m-i complex is 'too hard', do each in turn. ron paul's plan should be last, though. by then america will be using barter and bicycle generators outside the military bases, and the gold standard will be appropriate.

than terrorists. that's why the people should have oversight of the government. that is why democracy is important, and americans should try to get it. mike gravel has a plan, have you read it? or are you hoping the politician cat is going to protect the mouse people?

would be a strong team, like a cross between a tiger and a crocodile. but they don't mate in the field and not even the rnc can sew this monster together in their secret lab.

on the other hand, they made bush-cheney look like two human beings, so perhaps weird science is farther along than i know.

he's the incarnation of 'bad america', a section often in charge of the nation, always in charge of foreign policy.

'good america' is a minority, that gets to run things for a little while when b. a. has truly stuffed things up.

it needs an amendment establishing citizen initiative. then the people can create long term policies that don't depend on the continuous selflessness of politicians.

it would also check excesses of ego, corruption, and simple insanity. america's leaders don't display these characteristics? never? what, never ever?

how amusing. many roman emperors bought their way onto the throne in similar fashion, although their 'voters' were the roman mob, and later the legions.

wouldn't you prefer to vote for policies, and for laws? wouldn't you prefer that candidates put their program on the web, and take office when that program was accepted through referendum?

isn't it about time political structure caught up with google, cloning, and (not so) smart bombs?

this year, but a nation that elects dubya twice, and nixon, and reagan, clearly isn't troubled by ethics, intellect, or even simple long term survival considerations.

mccain is a chance, simply because he's clearly better than dubya. if he can co-opt romney into the ticket, they will have militarism and greed on their side, commonly a winning combination in america.

but the dems are pulling in new voters, and more money and must be favorites. i wish this were a cause for rejoicing, but obama is just blather, and clinton is just another weather vane politician. no salvation there.

so, i would like to believe you all are backing gravel's 'initiative for democracy', which is a cure for creeping dictatorship. but in fact, that would require you to be responsible for your actions and your fate.

you'd rather sit on yer bums and whine.

america is a backward nation, mired in greed, ignorance and religion. the chances of the human race in general, or america in particular, wrenching itself into survival-of-the-race activity seems very slim.

but when you consider the alternative to immediate action, then rational behavior is pretending science and socialism will triumph over ignorance and personal selfishness. "leave me alone to get rich by looting the planet while cheating the tax man" can't be tolerated any more. if you go on calling it freedom and capitalism, your grandchildren, if they survive, will change their names and pretend to be born from a lab bottle.

that's getting the people in charge of the nation. mike gravel has a plan to do it. it's called 'initiative for democracy'.

every other 'change' is just a change of faces, a change of 'more' or 'less', but not direction.

a politician can't change things in any fundamental way, change needs the people to stop regarding politics as an occasional entertainment, played by professionals. they have to say "by the people means us."

that's why obama is a phony, clinton worse, and any republican a disaster. the only real change they are looking for is their own face on the 6 oclock news.