The state goes for broke. Pay now and later.

As the complexities of WWII and Germany were gradually revealed while in high school, I remember how utterly mystified I was by the lack of opposition from the victims themselves. In my mind, their unwillingness to react to the ever increasing violence against them by their government was incomprehensible, as was their belief that each atrocity would be the last.

So I can easily imagine a future generation of students reacting with disbelief and bewilderment as they study the George W. Bush presidency. How could the citizens have ignored the blatant destruction of their civil liberties and economic protections? Why did two branches of the government allow the reversal of a country's history and aid the executive branch in its takeover of government? Did anyone try to stop the President and his administration?

God, I hope the answer to the last question is 'yes, and the opposition's efforts were successful'.

Like Dick Cheney and his voivode, Don Rumsfeld, Vlad the Impaler's propensity for torture and cruelty would certainly guarantee him a top job in the Pentagon or DHS. Likewise, the odds are good that the Bush administration's top officials would fit right in with Vlad's Council and other Stake-holders.

Whether the final injustice comes by Diebold or flag waving subjects, Democrats have suffered long enough. If the worst should happen today, let's skip Transylvania. It's too much like home.

Vice-President Dick Cheney recently told CNN that in his view the administration has achieved "enormous successes" in Iraq. Along with such delusions and 100% foreign policy stupidity, the White House excels in short-sightedness, and all of its views for Iran stop at the Pentagon.

Please increase the subscription price by $5.00 and give Glenn an assistant. Thanks.

This reminds me of another story put out by the Bush (non) administration: What 9/11, Bin Laden and Iraq have in common.

To be fair, there is a common thread in both tales, but it remains nameless on the (non) administration's lips - Halliburton.

You are right to move on to the election's outcome now. And it is time for We The People to do the same. If we want a dauntless Democratic leader as President, then we need to devote as much time and energy into creating and demanding such a candidate as we have put into ousting the current power grabbing regime.

The concepts of Universal Truth and Justice, once so beloved by neocons and conservatives, have joined the Geneva Convention Articles, the Separation of Powers doctrine and Habeas Corpus in the trash heap at the White House. Not only does the heap continue to grow, the rest of the world is now complaining loudly about the smell.

The November general election may well swing on whether the prevalent fear is economic based or security oriented. If it is economic based, both the liberal boogyman and experience memes will be desperate attack attempts by the GOP with little chance of working, as both candidates will stand on equal economic ground. If the fears are based on something other than the usual attempt to imagine a terrorist attack at the Indiana Apple Festival, McCain will have a good chance at taking the White House. That's the way politics works in America and the only way Republicans can get elected. They require an enemy (other than Democrats and good government) to get in. They rely on fear to stay in.

What planet are the blathering pundits in this article from? It is as if they have been viewing the race from Mars with no access to the Internet to check on what Americans are actually doing.

For instance, their take on the white vote does not correlate with the significant migration of the white vote away from the Republican party. In 2004, white voters called themselves Republicans by a 38% to 29% margin. Last March, Pew Research Center reported that White voters now are as likely to identify with the Democratic Party as with the GOP (31%).

(http://pewresearch.org/pubs/773/fewer-voters-identify-as-republicans).

It is hard to believe that these white voters switched from the GOP to the Democrats, yet still intend to vote for McCain.

In terms of the numbers that showed up for a McCain rally versus an Obama rally, the coverage given to Obama was proportionally about right. Besides, the media was just not that into McCain.