"It is no secret that many of the wealthy and the powerful have resented the reforms favoring democracy instituted by FDR 70 years ago, and some of them have stated, openly, more or less, that they are prepared to use extreme measures to reverse those reforms."

Just from observing the political process and the methods employed by the Bush administration, I believe your statement to be true. Ayn Rand's Objectivism is the closest I have come to finding something describing the philosophy behind it.

I have always believed that the elitists, that's what I call them, feel they have various entitlements. A good education, nepotism, guaranteed wealth, knowing the right people to get things accomplished, leadership positions, and massive political influence are just a few.

I also believe that they play propaganda games, allowing the average-joe to think he has a good deal while he is being used for their benefit.

I would appreciate it if you would identify some sources of information to assist in validating your statement. Thanks!

"Why do you call yourself 'antineocon'?"

Simply because the neocons influenced the Bush administration into waging the preemptive war into Iraq. I believe their undefined purpose was to get the USA into the Middle East in order to protect Israel. I have heard the Israeli's have the most advanced "enhanced torture techniques" in the world. I am against everything the Bush administration is for, especially torture. Therefore I am an antineocon.

I had heard that Wolfowitz was an "A" student at the University of Chicago and an adherent of Wohlstetter, but I didn't realize that Strauss and Wohlstetter had published so many books.

I do read the papers, but apparently not critically enough.

Thanks for the information!

Maryland voted for Obama overwhelmingly!

Yet O'Malley and Mikulski, who represent the voters of Maryland, are pledged to Clinton.

They are political insiders who made a deal with the Clinton campaign, for some kind of personal political payoff. That payoff overrides the vote of their constituents.

And yet the democrats condemn the Bush administration for the same kind of repulsive hi-jinks. These elite democratic meglomaniacs are being played by the Clintons for all their worth. The elitist superdelegates are only feathering their own nests for personal gain.

I hope that there is some kind of uproar and rebellion. It is absurdly unfair! "The MAN" needs to control the vote!

Is this a country for the superdelegates, by the superdelegates, and of the superdelegates and to hell with the people and their vote?

I believe that the super-delegates from Massachesetts should vote for HRC.

More specifically, I don't understand the need for super-delegates! Why do they exist? Because Walter Mondale doesn't believe that the citizenry can be trusted to vote correctly? And the citizenry humbly accepts his decision! How repulsive!

I also no longer see the need for the electoral college! Again because the voters of the USA might just vote for someone the elitists don't think would be appropriate.

And I don't think that Scalia and his right-wing thugs had the right to override the popular vote. Incidentally Scalia came out for torture this week. What a sad state of affairs!

And the electorate just obeys and follows like lemmings.

The superdelegates and the electoral college only exist to massage the egos of the elitist megalomaniacs and let them control the country!

This country needs to deal with this problem or just cave into the desires of the dicta of Leo Strauss and Wohlstetter.

I watched her analysis of the democratic debate. She is so tied into Clinton's campaign winning, that she can't see reality. She is just like Pat Buchanan, both having views based on their own preferences, and will go to any length to provide that biased viewpoint. Just like the rest of us!

But some of us admit it, and don't pretend to be saying anything objective.

Maggie Williams implies that everyone, including HRC, should be proud of wearing foreign regalia.

But it seems a little naive to think the Clinton campaign (Maggie Williams) sent this picture to the Drudge report so that everybody could see Obama in a Muslim get-up and to rejoice in an exchange of foreign culture.

Why she really did this is so that everybody could see Obama, for what he truly is. A Muslim! That she had no ulterior motive in sending this picture in order to get it publicized, is ludicrous. As is the Clinton campaign.

She sounds a little like Lee Atwater/Karl Rove in "full-deceit- mode!"

You just have to do whatever it takes to win, as Karl would say.

I think that the Rovian games may backfire on the Clinton campaign this time. It is too late for these type gambits.

The American people have caught on to the lies and the playing up to the prejudices. You can't get away with swift-boating this time.

Or, maybe not. But I can hope, can't I?

“The nitwit xenophobe block is slipping away?”

The above quote was taken from another thread.

I love it! The great impact of the "photo flap" is that Obama is going to lose this bloc of idiots. What a pitiful shame! Bon voyage, folks! Don't trip on your way out!

Oh, Clinton campaigners, you are so vile! I'm sure you will get even more vile as your poll numbers descend even further!

I turned off Bill O'Reilly and his radio show today when he started discussing with a caller, whether Obama was a Muslim mole. That was what the caller was positing.