Eugene to be Hillary’s Royal Panty Sniffer. I keeeed, I keeed!

My vote for the primary is gold, AU on the chart. It doesn’t do anything bad, or good. It doesn’t rust or rot or break promises. And everyone wants it. Buy gold.

I also vote for storeable food. It doesn’t ask you for ID or insist you give up your guns.

Finally you should vote for guns. Should you run out of food you can use it to get more food. It has also been known to change governments. I keeed, I keeeed!

” But when asked how exactly he intends to perform this incredible feat, Romney went all deus ex machina: He said he would spend billions of federal dollars on energy-related research, which surely will invent all kinds of wondrous new technologies, which then will swoop in to save the day. Romney was asked in a National Public Radio interview Wednesday what he would cut to come up with the money for his research project—he’s supposed to be a fiscal conservative, remember—and he named federal job-training programs, which he said were wasteful and inefficient.”

Natural resources, esp. water and energy should be nationalized.  Chavez has the right idea.

Our so-called elections generate the same kind of excitement as professional sports do.  Which team will win?  Obama’s stump speech is about as politically meaningful as recent red sox blather… “they said it couldn’t be done”...  The out come of these elections have about as much impact on our day to day lives as professional sports championship games do.  It is entertainment; nothing more.  What Robinson means is that he can’t stand the excitement.  Who will make history, Hillary or Obama?

How did Eugene Robinson get a column on this site??
There’s nothing difficult about voting.  You could go into the booth blind folded and mark your ballot.  It won’t make any difference in our lives.  Vast majorities of people want an immediate end to the war and national single payer health care but we end up with candidates in both parties who are opposed to both these things.  Corporate America controls the whole process.  It’s all about shutting us out.

Yep, I’d say start with the obvious, in the process of elimination. HRC is the OBVIOUS (or as you stated - blantantly) pro-War Democratic candidate.

So, scratch that name, and let’s move on…

Not hard at all.

“But they all promise, basically, the same policy going forward: Bring the troops home.”

My gawsh, where do they find these bubblehead journalists? Who cares what Obama and HRC promise as long as they continue to fund U.S. terror against Iraqis? Especially HRC, the only blatantly pro-war Democratic Party candidate. Scratch Hillary off the list unless you want more of what we have now. What’s so hard about that?

Eugene says, “When it comes time for the general election campaign, voters will be faced with a clear choice on the major issues.” Wrong. We are faced with the major issues now! The wars, the economy and civil liberties. Who is the only candidate that will end ALL wars and bring ALL the troop home and not threaten to start new ones? Who is the only candidate that understands that the Federal Reserve Bank is a private bank controlling our fiat money supply and will work to do something about it? Who is the only candidate that will fight to restrain the power and size of the government, voted against the Patriot Act, abhors the National ID Card and has and will fight for our liberty? The “general” election is now!

The major candidates of both parties promise they will continue the Iraq War.

ER, why do you not write of the folly of Primaries? It is a glamorous set-up to confuse and make the media richer. The primary never has been a sorting out of aspirants to the throne. All primaries do is rid the playing field of those with no ties to corporate buy-ins.
Historic if a Blackman or a female wins? Who gives a damn? What is best for the American citizen is to be the topic of conversation, not color or gender.

Right!  There have been two recent examples of campaigns being called out for ambiguities and outright lies—one, a reporter questioning Romney about lobbyists and another questioning Bill about a Nevada Casino lawsuit.

Politicians are so used to either outright lying or twisting the truth that they believe themselves.

I wish the media had the balls—like during WH press conferences—to press for the truth on no uncertain terms.  “Sir, you didn’t answer my question.”  “But Sir, you still didn’t answer my question.”  “All due respect, George, the public deserves a truthful answer from you.”  “Bushie, are you aware that you are refusing to answer my question?  Is there a way I can ask it that you’ll answer it?”

I know this would mean the correspondents job. Some country!

“On what is now the issue of greatest concern, according to surveys—the flagging economy—Democrats and Republicans truly seem to live in different solar systems.”

Hmm….there’s that proverbial “seem”.  News Flash:  Aside from EXTREMISTS, we not only live on the same planet, we live in the same country, in the same states, in the same cities, in the same communities, in the same NEIGHBORHOODS!

In your conflux of trying to make us “SEEM” different, I admonish that we are all VERY MUCH the same.  We are the citizens of America and care very deeply about that in this regard.

A fair and honest vote is what we want.  Cut the crap.