You sound both angry and impersonal in your posts here. People have joked about paid operatives, but are you one?

Your attack on Maureen is unwarranted by the way. She has already said that she doesn't like Obama and thereby appears to prefer Clinton. Telling her that she's stupid and takes botox because you mistakenly think that she is attacking Clinton is mysogynistic and disgusting.

I wrote you a post earlier asking about yourself. Even if you don't want to reveal your name, do you read Thomas Friedman's columns? Do you think he is a neoliberal? Do you agree with Paul Krugman? How do you feel about globalization? What are your beliefs? What do you have invested in this race on a more personal level?

And for the record, I think you owe Maureen and probably others too an apology for the personal attack.

Thank-you for your thoughts. I agree with you, and it has not engendered any loyalty toward the company. I will never understand how they think they are saving money by paying people to do nothing.

I've decided to head in another direction altogether and am working on that. I agree with you that globalization is here...and yet I wonder what kind of response we can create to it. I actually like the idea of "green jobs" although I'm not sure what these are and where they are.

It concerns me that college students today face such a limited job market. Our country really needs to find some answers. We have have let 9-11 ruin us in several ways 1) denying student visas so the talented crop of students that used to come here to stay and now aren't 2) investing so much in military expansion but siphoning money from schools and other necessary infrastructure 3) promoting the fear and posturing that may be stifling to our famous ability for "innovation 4) letting Bush/cheney run the armed madhouse giving rise to corporate abuse both domestically and abroad from Blackwater to Enron...the wealth of a few growing whilte the pocketbooks of the many are shrinking. Health care, for example, being out of control.

I could go on. I just wonder what people think we can do, politically, about globalization. How should we respond politically/socially/publicly?

P.S. Speaking of health care, I also worked, recently and temporarily for a company that sold medical equipment--expensive medical equipment that assists doctors during heart surgery. I'm not saying that I don't think it was a good product, but it gave me the creeps when I had to spend an afternoon organizing and mailing the checks to doctors as "commission" for ordering the product for their hospitals. They were known as doctor reps. And the commission checks? Anywhere from a few hundred to more than fifty thousand dollars. And that was just for one piece of equipment.

Scary and sad that ours society has become this corrupt and greedy. Someone needs to clean house in Washington D.C. John Edwards was right when he said that the system is broken.

Sometimes I wonder if Bush will take up drinking again once he gets out of office (if he hasn't already) because he must realize at some level what a failure he has been, and how angry most Americans are, even members of his own party, for his dishonesty and incompetence. But maybe I'm dreaming that he would ever even subconsciously realize any of this.

Obama has said he doesn't know how he would have voted on that authorization had he actually been in the U.S. Senate when the vote was taken.

-- ljwalker53

you should close that quote by adding what Obama said. He said he didn't know how he would have voted based on the intelligence reports at the time, which he did not at that time have authorization to read.