Letters to the Editor
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the U.S. government is broken
"If you think our process is corrupt and broken, he's your man. If you're either fine with the process, or too busy to think about it (filling out your FAFSA, trying to save your house from foreclosure; breaking up your kids' latest fight), he might lose you."
I think this is what non-American commenters, like me, don't understand: you have a fundamentally corrupt governmental process and, for the first time in a long time, a candidate who aspires to make serious changes to it, thereby putting your democracy in line with the democracies of the rest of the civilized world, and possibly preventing the United States from initiating global conflict. You have a candidate who understands the problem is the system itself. How is anyone reasonable American even NOT considering voting for Obama? Obama's strengths are that he isn't business as usual, and that he's not of your chattering class. He IS your great hope. Not because he's black. But because he's as revolted by your system as is every other thinking person anywhere else on the planet.
Hillary Clinton still talks about nuclear intervention. She sat on the board of WalMart, for heaven's sakes. These are not asides to be brushed away. These speak to core ideological deficiences. What difference does it make if you elect a Democract who still wants to use war as diplomacy and supports the global capitalism from which we all suffer?