Star—I’ll vote for Obama because while still a company man he’s not totally married to the failed policies of yesteday as are Clinton and McCain. You are so right the system is totally fixed. With the backing of many in the fathers rights movement I tried for the GOP nomination. The last thing the GOP, and likely the Democrats too, want is a real outsider. To be sure I got no traction the GOP openly cheated me in straw polls. The first time was at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Memphis in 3/06. Refused a line on the straw as a write-in I beat Guilani, Brownback, Hegel, Gingrich, Barbour, Tancredo and JC Watts. My results were listed as “Other”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oQdn6NvhIU Later in Iowa as a favor to a politically connected fathers rights activist, I was added to the Des Moines area GOP chairman’s straw poll. Quickly went to 52% of the vote which at that point my name was removed and the count reset to zero. The Iowa GOP refused to take my $15,000 for a ballot line at the Ames Straw Poll last August. See Part 2 of the Des Moines GOP chairman’s blog entry. http://therealsporer.blogspot.com/2006/08/musicians-wanted.html

I couldn’t agree more - Obama comes across to me as snooty. He tries to act otherwise but every now and then it slips out. I am disappointed in Hilary’s stretching the truth and exaggerating some of her experiences, but when push comes to shove, she has proved she is the strongest of the two and definitely a fighter! She doesn’t back down and she has had to take a whole lot more punches than Obama has during this campaign. I hope she “cleans house” in the elections on Tuesday. I also have this gut feeling, if Obama gets elected a lot of weird stuff is going to happen. And my gut feelings have never let me down.

Thank you Star. You are absolutely right on! Mark my words…..if it happens, it won’t be good. Young man needs some time to mature. GKG

I completely agree! I have followed the candidates and followed the issues. Which is very difficult to do, when all the media, including my favorite shows, want to do is become the “National Inquirer” . People are so angry and bitter over the last 7 years, that we strike out at each other and salivate over utter nonsense. No matter which excellent Democratic Candidate gets the nomination, I will be voting for them. And then I will be pressuring them and all our elected officials to bring about change in health care and green energy and an end to the corporate government and war crimes and imperialism and the occupation of Iraq. When we elect the Democratic Candidate to be the next President of the United States, our work will have only just begun.

JMK Singer. Précisément. Exactement. Tout à fait.

AB is right, we need to define ‘elitism’. What the heck is meant or being described? In my view, the problem is that this election has gone on much too long. We may have to pass a law ‘defining’ how long a presidential election should be allowed to run — shouldn’t have to, but candidates (Hillary in this case) don’t seem to have the self-control that would be desirable in a president.. This election has gotten out of hand with a lot of messy, childish junk the outcome. It also bothers me that we Americans fall so easily for words that are not defined as to context or have some image’, warped or not warped, attached to them. I hate to admit it, but in many respects, seems to me that we, Americans, are simply not well-informed enough because of our own lack of paying attention or thinking things thru or understand political, language, feelings, what kind of an America we want, etc. I suggest that SOMEONE initiate a national discussion about WHO we want to be. I’m voting for Obama because I think he is one heck of a human being, someone who has made personal and professional mistakes, mistakes in thinkiing about the world and then corrected them by changing what needed to be changed for optimum results. Pluses hard to come by, especially in the political worlld. As I see Obama, he is a person who can look at the big picture, do what it takes to get good counsel on any problem and then make workable solutions from all he knows, hears and thinks. In my view, we need a president who can THINK — inside and outside the box — and this is Barack. I did not hear or hear of Michelle’s comments about not being able to live on $500,000/year. Hard to believe any fool, especially a candidates wife, would say that. She has said a few things that are questionable, but she seems to have calmed down from the early days in the campaign. I do wish she would be more careful about what she says. Being in the White House might be interesting, maybe even fun. But we need a president who can THINK. Not rely on good old standard issuess that have produced little. Also, while I’m yapping, I really like Bill Clinton and thought he did a very good job as president. Will never forgive Gingrich and his group for the impeachment nonsense they put us thru when Gingrich and many others were behaving in the same way Clinton was. Gingrich and frens wasted two years of a presidency. Had they not so distracted everyone with nonesense, 911 might not have happened. Politics might be a ‘sport’ to politicians, but it’s reality for Americans and affects the way we are able to live. We NEED good, thoughtful, know how leadership NOW. I think both Bill and Hillary have shown a competitive side and a willingness to go ‘slumming’ when it suits their purpose that I have never seen before, and I’m disgusted and disappointed with both of them and Hillary’s campaign. I’m sic of ‘schuluck’ and right now, politics. Can’t CNN find something else to talk about?