Well. kudos to Candice! initially i thought this was a superficial question which unfairly characterised these candidates as equally corrupt and/or compromised! after seeing the evolution of the responses I’m not convinced that any of these people can single handedly harness the needed resources to accomplish what’s ahead! The collection of thought expressed though is a good start! A friend once said ” trust the process!!!” The process is agonizing though, and I’m not patient! If Obama is the ascention of the process that Abe Lincoln initiated, If Hillary is the synthesis of processes coming together, well we’ll see. America! by design is a process. so may the many prevail!!! heard a lyric from a song recently “smile like you mean it” and then there’s L O L . Keep them wheels spinning people and thanks for the escape.

L O L !!!! thanx franx

perhaps a perpetual bail/slush fund; “cuz I’m seeing some patterns begining to surface! The Gracious founders of this site may have some ideas regarding the specifics here! Also ” FREE LEONARD PELETIER!!!”

Hop on a boat with the great escape artist Jimmy Buffett! I find ” changes in lattitudes and changes in attitudes” helps to lift some of the fog. This album includes Margaritaville however but thats forgivable!

There were plenty of notices sent that OSAMA would like to knock at the door!!!! THEN HE KNOCKED OUT A COUPLE WINDOWS,AND KICKED THE SHIT OUT OF THE DOOR!!!!!!!!! SO STOP DEFENDING THE MORON IN CHIEF

I too was hoping to get yet another insight from the sage Suzanne!!! Sorry y’all but she’s my newest favorite writer. but on to the ? at hand! Who invited the Chinese to play on the international stage anyway? Think about it in some historic sense. The chinese had circumnavigated the globe 100 years before the Portugese rounded Cape Hope! we’re actually lucky they have given other cultures some centuries to catch up! China is probably representative of the shape of things to come. Sadly I ‘m guessing that Papa Bush caught a glimpse of that when he represented Nixon there. The Olympics, While being the ultimate sporting spectacle ( the only time we get cable television) is still sporting spectacle. March madness, the superbowl hype, it’s all so market driven. Actualyy overachievement and the graceful execution of it in any form is worth blocking out some time for. Back to you Suzanne!

’ used to be in love with the “hills”!!! am finding it so freakin’ tough to choke down her tacticts though now. When I finished reading ” Thousand splendid Suns” I thought there was no way I’d not vote for Hillary,yet she’s managed to drop to such a loathesome standard that I cringe to think about it. James Carvill, and Mr. Bill; now there’s a dream team. Well. surround yourself with yesterdays news and look toward tomorrow! I merely hope that WE can recoup our American narrative that guided us to some gracious esteem in the eyes of the world. Times and things change, adapting is the hardship. Not sure I’ quite prepared for what seems ahead! Congratulations to wowOwow though! You are certainly a beacon of the conversation needs to transpire! thank you!!

Wow Susanne! You seem sooooo very informed and articulate!!! Haave you met Tom Hartmann? the Air America personality. He would be an equally interesting participant here. And that vitiolic Randi Rhoades could shake it up here as well! Thanks for the referrals and your two cents makes sense to me!

Hey Bean! Nice bunch of cliched,catch phrased, mamby pamby, pseudo intellectual, opinionated goof balls we can gravitate to! I grew up in Spokane. You know Spokane? The host metropolis for the Arayan Nations. My popper mother passed away when I was a young child. ( I know boo hoo!) Her best friend was a black woman whom I endeared to my heart. I never really knew that woman, nor my poor mamma. Yet, the significance of their relationship impacted my entire life. These WOMEN were spat upon when they walked to the grocery store together! SOOOO, when I hear Rev. Wright , I HEAR Rev. Wright! It seems to me that he makes a pertinent point. Perhaps that is the point! He might use his voice and terminology to afffect a response from his audience. Much like you attempt to right here. You impress me as one of those self actualised All American Bimbos who figures MIGHT MAKES RIGHT!!! or is it right is right, or is it Wright is right or perhaps WHITE is right!???!! Yeah OBAMA has been made to sacrifice his heart his integrity now to show the super delegates, and the n’er do well bimbos that their fifedoms are safe. American princes and princesses see their GATZBY lives threatened. The mere mention of historical truth, the audacity of that uppity Ethiopian descendant, skin so dark, voice so loud, and a message so condemning of the white arayanocracy!!!!! So ms. Bean any outrage about the abuses by Mitt’s people down there in Texas?

Captive audience perhaps Michael?

WOW o WOW!!!!! I guess i’m just too thin skinned. I feel that Hillary will be happy to be selected as a Mc Cain VP. The ultimate self interested nonpartisan. She’s probably kegelling right now. So what is the relationship between the strict constitutionalist, the XIX amendment, Title IX, Black history in America, and Corporate freedoms prior to 1878? I submit that the current administration,and the structure that abducted the hopes of egalitarian common folks , see the ” new world order” as their manifest destiny, and perhaps manifest obligation. That cannot help but stomp the masses for the benefit of the few. Reverand Wright merely speaks for the solemn saddened hearts of those masses that have languished under the weight of a history which has ( if you’re truly honest with yourself) barely allowed their hearts and minds to express themselves; let alone rise up and flourish! Barack truly is a vision of hope. He represents to me the ascention of Abraham Lincoln’s work. He reepresents to me the hope today that we can possibly arrive at a place in our history that George Washington and his peers would view,perhaps with a resigned sigh, as the republic of the people, by the people, and even for Reverand Wrights people.

’ read Marie Cocco’s column! She finishes with some snarky comment about those progressives looking for some SIGNIFICANT change as merely being in hot pursuit of mansions and other “SELF intesets”. Well let’s lay it out there! We first met the Cintons in 1988 at the Democratic national convention. Then Gov. Bill Clinton gave a moving valedictoryto us HOPEful progressive lemmings. The melting pot was stirred! We were delighted and swept away. Our youthful exuberance carried forward with expectations and assumptions. Soon however the luster tarnished and the nibbles became snarling bites of a republican reality. contentions,real or imagined morphed into flaggrant desicrations even “lies”! Along comes 2000, Now we have Bush! deeper desecrations become rapacious grubbings and grabbing, then TORTURE!! and yet philandering is still more potent and damningto you important social commentators and critics.. Senate sinecures? Gov. mansions? Have you noticed any self interest in the Clinton circles? Those people are SELF interest personified! can you people see past your tax breaks to the tips of your noses? Self Interest? Mansions? The Clintons represent a democratic LOVE CANAL. I finally hear the salacious contrivance that is Bill Clinton. He should be traversing the world with Mr. Carter and trying to repair the damage done by his successor. Humping the states to prosper again from some ego trip. What a shameful disgrace he has gravitated to now! Smell the LOVE! Love Canal!!! There’s where we stand with the Clinton legacy. It’s time ladies to look to a new solution! The WORLD is ready to embrace what America can and should be. The world will run to an Obama America. Or, it will wallow in a continued stench!! This U S NAVY veteran, working class, white,tax depleted, American citizen hopes full on that Hillary will use her ample skill and aplomb in the SENATE to make real the hope that Barack inspires!!!!!!!! Other wise there will be no change! No change in my pocket! No change in yours! Plenty for the likes of Bill , Hillary, Dick, George, John,Mitt, Karl, and you can keep on going, but Love Canal didn’t change on hope.