Agreed, GB, and some form of democratic socialism would actually be quite natural for the USA. The era of the big wheel and the big deal is over. Now, its time to try a little reality - like co-operation will save you!

Douglas Chalmers,
The big wheel and the big deal are alive and well.
The pirates in the White House have stolen it and gave it to their friends.
1. Cheney’s energy policy gave huge subsidies to the oil companies at a time when they are sucking up huge windfall profits from the war to tap the oil in Iraq.
2. Halliburton and Blackwater are taking billions in no-bid contracts escalating their prices through multiple sub-contracts. Halliburton has or had headquarters on the Cayman Islands so you can guess how that serves Cheney/neoCons/PNAC. Now they’re moving to Qatar. How American.
3. NAFTA/CAFTA continues to waste tax dollars from companies getting breaks to move their operations out of the country to exploit foriegn labor.
The reality goes on. This is called Corporate Welfare leaving our poor to get poorer and risk of health.
The only candidate I hear addressing all of these issues at the core as priority is Dennis Kucinich yet so many Americans are falling to the media hype who the front runners are. The media thinks the Rebs have more of a chance against Clinton and Obama so they are proping them up because they all have monetary stakes in the occupation in Iraq and corporate welfare going forward. The media is getting rewarded with more ability to dominate the message in this country by the FCC and no word from the Dem front runners on that.
That’s reality.
The Democrats need to wake up and do what’s right for this country or it may be another Reb president and slim Dem majority in Congress.

Ellen Goodman wants a female president, but any female will do. UNFORTUNATELY those of us with memories think of her support of Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, and how fast she jumped ship when the candidate (and her presidential running mate) were no show campaigners.

Now I personally don’t give a rat’s ass what Fat-boy fruitcake Limburger breath says. BUT the fact that he hits Hill-the-business-shill with soft/gender renting balls of puff makes me wonder how much he really detests her.  Actually in this election, an endorsement from Rush might just be a kiss of death.

This is wonderland folks, nothing is as it seems, and our only hope (as a nation) is that the electorate (notoriously stupid, uninformed, and 50% uninvolved) can decipher the code of who’s who before November 08...less than 11 months folks!

Opagene,
The police state is already here thanks to the Bush/Cheney crime gang.
Socialized medicine would actually be a good thing because it’s time to get this monkey off the backs of corporations in the US so they can compete on our soil with our workers given that practically every other capitalist country has socialized medicine. Also, if the CEOs of insurance companies aren’t getting the millions to a billion dollar packages they are currently getting to deny coverage for those who are supposedly covered, we could cover everyone in this country.
It’s a proven fact that privitization of social services is a failure at every corner.
Look at the billions wasted in Bush’s attempt to privatize his phony war on terror in Iraq. Contractors alone are taking 40% of the budget and our troops still don’t have the tools they need to survive the insanity.
I seriously don’t think Clinton will accomplish this though so if she’s in you won’t have to worry because she’ll have alot of corporate favors to pay.
Kucinich is my man because he loves America and knows that when everyone is covered, our nation will be safer from the fear and war mongers.
Propaganda is our biggest enemy in this country.
United we prosper.

It’s noy her looks that are important. She is a real cranky old Bitch! Has nothing good to say. Follows Communism from her school daze and will bring Socalized medicine to America and a Police State is less than 2 Years.

The moron media (Or maybe cunning) neglect to accent what the candidates believe in, what they feel should be corrected in this country to bring back the land we once knew and instead focus on women’s breast, wrinkles, crow’s-feet, men’s haircuts, god as vice president tells me a great deal about the average person’s intelligence and maturity. There is nothing wrong with the country, the sky is still blue, the earth is still brown, and the grass is still green. What is wrong with the country is it’s infested with Republicans (Aka Conservative right wingers) that vitiate it to such an extent that it is the laughing stock of many other countries.

Are we ready to watch a woman growing older by the day? We have watched male Presidents growing older for two hundred years. What does Rush want, a female Dorian Gray? Despite what Limbaugh says Fred Thomson’s wrinkles and baggy eyes do not make him more distinguished. Fred looks worn out and not up to running the most powerful country on earth.

I guess after a while it gets difficult for Rush to make millions supporting the lies of the Bush/Cheney crime syndicate and sound legit. So what do you do but pull out the kiddie material and point your finger. He should be careful not offend the only Americans who take him seriously which is the 70 somethings that long for the good ole McCarthy days of the 50s.

No wonder Rush needs Viagra. In addition to swallowing them, he ought to shove 50 milligrams in each ear before he opens his mouth. It might increase the blood flow to his brain.

Isn’t the election process supposed to bring the cream to the top?  Today we have a admitted war criminal Bob Kerry, a not yet convicted war criminal G.W. , a obvious wacko Joe Lieberman , infamous bigot Rush Limbaugh, a baptist minister , a old warrior who is still fighting in Vietnam, a common hood and a quiz show host.  Is this the best we can do?  Maybe the election season is too long.

If I was a fat ass with a beer barrel belly loaded with drugs. I wouldn’t talk about a crow’s foot on a female. I would abstain from too much on my plate so as my ass and belly would be not be even larger.

I made a comment to my acupuncturist that men thought that woman should not snore, her friend made the comment why don’t we have noses which means snoring is something that both men and women do, men also age, maybe woman wrinkle more than men due to the composition of the sex (women have more fat under the skin and as we age there is less and the result more wrinkles.)

Of course for Clinton to become president she can always have a lift and tuck the way Ms. Palosi did.

I think to talk about a person having wrinkles or a little extra weight is crazy, I thought we wanted a president with credentials after all Bill had bags under the eyes, etc.

I say let the best person win and I think that most people are mature enough to realize that wrinkles are a part of getting old, I always thought that the advertisement about removing wrinkles during the night was false because when you awake in the morning you look older than an hour later especially around the eyes, excuse me but when your eyes are closed for more five hours the eyes get little oxygen anyway that is what the eye doctor told me and I believe it.

But if you look at Ms. Clinton’s intellect she is very sharp, and if Rush would just look at himself he would stop putting his foot in his mouth.

Ellen our obsession w/vanity is only made worse by paying anykind of attention to Rush ‘the lush’ Lowbrow.
Another poorly raised child who found their teething ring behind a microphone. A bloated and constipated soul that needs to introduce some fiber into his diet.(he failed to read the Purdue Pharma disclaimer of side effects of their dark little contribution to Mankind, Oxycotin.)

Ellen its the cosmetic industry that plays so well into our fear that as we age we may somehow be less attractive to others, but sadly to ourselves. So they create list of adjectives to describe their valuless claims of ‘night repair, collagen, free-radical fighting, replenishing, rejuvinating, anti-aging, anti-gravity’ bullshit.
My Father practiced medicine for 47 years and as my Mother would accumulate yet another jar, tube or serum, my Father would simply say to her “Honey its a jar of hope”.

Most every time Ellen Goodman sets pen to paper, she sets women-in-politics back another year. Goodman, through her endless nagging, reminds any man with self-respect that he’d better think twice before placing power in the hands of candidates endorsed by Goodman; those people for whom problems of the world are subordinated to problems of the ego.