I was for edwards in the primary as I thought from the democrats he was the best choice but even at the beginning of the primaries, NEITHER side’s wannabe’s ever mentioned the deplorable state of our msm and the information they provide much less the complicity and conspiracy to veggatate our population and what any wannabe would do to correct the problem. THIS is the number 1 problem in this country. If you don’t get real information and don’t allow opposing sides to give their voice to the other, then you are looking at a duplicate of the nazi propaganda system.
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So, Ms. Edwards, good to see someone trying to bring attention to this failure in our demoracy, even if it is a bit late, but better later than never.

We can, dear electorate, still write-in a candidate of our choosing. Some will say that this is or will be a wasted vote or a non-vote. But I will have voted for the person that I feel is the best choice to be MY President. Not who mass media and big money say I should vote for. I suggest that everyone, at least, consider doing the same thing. I feel, short of revolution, that one can convey to Washington that what we have now, and have had for a number of election cycles, isn’t quite working as well as it should. My conscience will be clear, shouldn’t yours also?

Yes, we live in a duopoly. Nothing in the Constitution or in any document of note has every claimed that there be only two Parties. And yet, Elizabeth not only left out Dennis Kucinich who is a Democrat and was not even allowed in a number of the debates even though his poll numbers were higher than Dodd’s (and I think Biden’s); but the MSM maginalizes all but the two parties. Media pushed the horse races right from the get go - two horses in the Democratic Party were pre-ordained (mostly because of money).

So, if you’re going to sing the blues we ought to be clear the fact that the American choice is limited in the extreme. John Edwards may have struck a cord that was a bit better than what the Dems are left with, but in the end this is a duopoly that smothers the voices which are not aligned to the heritage of USA hegemony and corporate imperialism.

The issues are barely discussed because there’s no difference between Obama and Clinton at this point; and when there was choice, real choice in the issues raised by Kucinich he was laughed at and treated as “not serious” by Mrs. Edward’s husband as he whispered to Hillary Clinton - as if there’s the insiders and the outsiders; and Dennis was not in with the in crowd.

So, cry me a river, Elizabeth. And frankly I really don’t think Biden - to answer your question - was offering a cogent universal single payer health care. Do you know who was?

Elizabeth Edwards hit this subject right out of the park. The ABC Debates exposed in a microcosm, just how shallow the news divisions have become. If a healthy democracy depends on an informed citizenry, we are in poor health right now. We are being fed a constant barrage of information that is so superficial in the choosing of president. We just may be in a age of ignorance as documented in Susan Jacoby’s new book lamenting our decline in intellectual knowledge. When half the population has not read a book in the last year and 25% of our college students don’t know the number of Supreme Court Justices, you know there is something occuring in our society that is “dumbing” us all down. Edward’s is correct in pointing out that the internet is one place to go to look into the issues further and reveiew candidate positions based on facts rather than the latest sound bytes coming from the opposition. If we truly had an informed citizenry our current voting patterns might look a lot different.