Nothing against the first comment, but Go Bob!  The Republicans have their Nader just in time for what was going to be a tough fight for them.  I hope that the media who loved to tout the split Dems faced in previous elections will remind Republicans grumpier than their nominee (I know that sounds impossible) that they have a choice.  He, he.

Then if Obama and a new crop of Dems can articulate a new progressive vision of the future perhaps we can also beat back the silliness and gangsterism of libertarians for another generation.

Bob Barr handled himself well in his appearance, but the problem with libertarianism is that it and republicanism as it now exists will produce one product and that is gangsterism. The gangsterism with Libertarianism will be amongst the people and the gangsterism with Republicans will be the government.

We should look at issues not solely from dogma, but from need for workable and balanced resolution and
make an effort to avoid problems before they become dangerous. To me that means the solutions cross into the left and the right. We must not have regulation just to have regulation, but we must have rules to avoid creating a system in which the overly aggressive tread upon everyone else. We have watched this out of control process in the past 8 years in which we are told the government can not regulate or punish the law breakers as the only goal is to allow unlimited profit without responsibility. Well that is not just wrong it is allowing the greedy to poison people as long as they can show a profit doing so.

We have too large a population to support complete personal freedom. By this I mean having the upper hand should not allow a person to abuse or misuse people just because they can.

All of this mess we have today that is hiding behind supposed Internationalism is just an excuse for the very rich to not pay their taxes and to max out their profits by producing things in countries without even the idea of fare wages. We have laws as I understand from people who are supposed to know these laws that give us even within the current treaties the right to protect ourselves from high handed and out of control importation of products into this country for the sole purpose of destroying what industry we have and freeing the investment community from their responsibilities to the community.

Let’s have balance, not dogma and mean spiritedness.