Letters to the Editor
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Observe the behavior of Pelosi et al following the 2006 elections
Last November the electorate delivered a fairly clear message, did it not? Have the Democrats acted? On ANYTHING? Why would I cut them more slack in 2008?
Judging by Congressman Paul's record, I'd say he's about as square and as on the level a candidate as we're going to get. The Framers would not roll over in their graves were he to be elected.
Applying the brakes has done nothing. Time to insert a monkey wrench into the perpetually corrupt gears of Washington. What's so funny, exactly, about Ron Paul's positions?
I don't get the joke. I don't see why he cannot be elected -- mainstream media notwithstanding. He's not CIA like Nader, and God willing Texas, Florida or Ohio will not be able to f*** up the election with or without Fat Tony and the Supremes and/or Diebold.
I'm not seeing why Ron Paul is unelectable. Aside from not being anointed by Israel and the MSM.
It's been a long, miserable slide downhill from JFK's assassination ("lone gunman"? Yeah, right). Why is a change for the better out of the question?
Rudy and Hill may as well have come out of the same rotten pea-pod. Take the red pill, Neo. Wake up.
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Never mind who is running for anything! Better deep-six the computerized voting machines
I love all of you. After all, we are all Americans and love our country, our Constitution and the planet. We all, in the end, just want to live our lives in peace and happiness with what ever prosperity we can spin for ourselves and our families.
Which brings me to my big HEADS UP PEOPLE!!! When the primary election days show up and we think we're going to go to our precincts and "vote" for the candidate of our choice we'd better think twice about it. So long as you cast your vote on a privatizied computerized voting machine that has corporate proprietary software that CAN BE HACKED, you might just as well stay home. Same for the the general election.
Do yourselves a giant favor and spend some time doing a little homework on the whole election thing. Start by going to YouTube and watching the 9 part series that was on HBO, "Hacking Democracy". Then go to this website and watch the special Dan Rather did on touchscreen voting: http://www.hd.net/drr227.html
Read Mark Crispin Miller's "Fooled Again" about the stealing of the election in 2004. Then go to KPFA-FM in Berkeley to the "Guns and Butter" archives and listen to every interview about the elections in 2000 and 2004 being stolen.
Just a hint people: When "exit polls" (which some countries value more than the votes) show that Kerry won 3,000,000 more votes than Bush in 2004 and all the exit polls declared him the winner but the electronic voting machines said otherwise.....Better wake up and smell the coffee.
And don't think because there will be "paper trails" all will be well in Mudville. The machines can still be hacked from outside computers and we'd never know the difference. Right now, legally, the public is forbidden from seeing any counting in this country. The last bastion of our democracy has been privatized and stolen from us. The question facing this American is this: How do we get it back? Comments? Suggestions? Personally I like the whole paper and ink thing at the precincts with ordinary citizens counting, drinking coffee, eating cookies and being videotaped. So it takes a few days to get the results. Fine.
And one more thing I'd like to add. I am a far left wing Progressive Democrat and have donated quite a bit of money to Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. I wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton even holding my nose. And beware Giuliani. He is up to his eyeballs in lies about 9/ll and as to Mitt Romney take note that his terrorism expert is Cofer Black, the second in command of Blackwater USA. To my knowledge, Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are the only candidates who respect the sanctity of the Constitution and don't look at it as Bush does: "it's just a Goddamned piece of paper!"
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So a priest and a rabbi are talking
And the priest says "Let's screw some boys" to which the Rabbi replied "Outta what?" Thank you I'll be here all week try the baba ganoush.
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World War 3
The president of Iran does not have the power in Iran that Bush/Cheney attributes to him. He is just a media seeking nut. Of course two nuts can make for war. I just hope we get the Bush/Cheney neocons contingent out of office before they start World War 3. Our nut Bush does beleive in "End Times" and it will be end times for sure if we have a another big war. Let's not forget World War 1 started in the middle east. Of course the Democrats supporting the Armenian case wil also contribute.
Iran's has as a highly educated popuation, is ripe for more freedom and we need to cultivate Iran instead of demonizing them. I just hope we elect a president who will craft a better international relations with Iran and other middle eastern countries, restart the disarmement agrees that Bush has ignored, and get rid of our plans for a missle defense system in the former Eastern bloc countries. We have already set up military bases in former Soviet Union countires close to Russia
and this is making Russia restart their nucleur programs.
We have distanced our selves from the rest of the world and I don't think Giuliani will help our internatinal relations. Hillary will have a beter chance, but I still think she is "hawk lite". Oou best chance for thoughtful foreign ralations is Obama. He is the only canddiate to make a statment about nuclear disarmament
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Eleciotns fears
You can rant all you want about rigged voting machines, elctoral college, but the truth... it is people who are not voting that is having the biggest impact on votes.
Bill Clinton won by a large popular vote, so we heard none of this bull. Kennedy beat Nixon by a very narrow margin of thepopular vote and got the election because of the electoral college. It works both ways.Gore did not win by a large popluar vote, thus the electoral college. We just could not beleive people were STUPID enough to vote for Bush twice. The truth is people are STUPID enough.
There is a vast under educated population that now votes. Many get their misinformation from the networks of FOX, CBN and the pulpits. Even educatd people don't educate themselves on candidates and issues, instead they listen to the drival of pundents, the non-debates, CNN polls, FOX misinfomatin, or just go and vote without thinking at all.
Want to know what Giuliani is like ask someone who live in New York. Of course there will be much hypocrasy in the answers.... "We like tht he cleaned up New York, but we did not like his tactics". or "New York has become a city for rich people"