An open Letter

This is a letter I recieved from a Kucinich supporter in my state.

I wanted to share with you a post I sent to the Jackson Free Press this evening.

President Obama.

Well, he just might become president.

We could do a lot worse.

I like that he now says the first think he will do when president is get the joint chiefs of staff together and start the ball rolling to end the occupation of Iraq and begin regional diplomacy.

Someone (some millions) are going to have to keep him accountable to that promise. He has quite consistently voted to fund the war. There is one candidate who did vote against starting the war and has consistently voted not to fund it.

He and Edwards and Dodd and Clinton and Biden all voted for war funds for Iran also. We need to talk him out of that.

He and the others, except one, voted for the patriot act and for its renewal. I hope we can interest him in the personal liberties that our founders died for and get him to drop his support for these horrid laws.

He supports dumping nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, Nevada like all the other candidates except one.

He supports the death penalty – like all the other candidates except the one I keep referring to and Gravel.

He won’t ditch NAFTA or the WTO, there is only one candidate willing to do that.

Like nearly all the other candidates, his healthcare plan has a nice place in it for the insurance profiteers. There is one candidate that promotes a non-profit health care plan that thinks keeping people healthy should be what health care is about, but all the others think it should be about making money.

And like all the other candidates he takes money from corporations. I wonder what the corporations think they are buying? There is just one candidate that doesn’t take corporate money.

After 40 years of supporting candidates that were electable, just not as evil as the alternatives, I want the remainder of my life to not be so wasted. If we don’t believe in, live in and work toward our highest aspirations, how would we ever expect to reach them?

Will NH Campaigns Get nasty?

Now, the Clinton campaign is scrambling to reassess its strategy, and whether to more aggressively attack Sen. Obama. "Does everyone know everything they need to know about Barack Obama?" her chief strategist, Mark Penn, asked a handful of reporters on a glum overnight flight from Iowa to New Hampshire. "She's fully vetted, fully tested, and I don't think that process has occurred with Barack Obama."

Sen. Clinton echoed him hours later, at a morning rally in a Nashua, N.H., airport hangar. "Of all the people running for president, I've been the most vetted, the most investigated, and -- my goodness -- the most innocent, it turns out," she said to applause.

IMO, they will become extremely nasty....Clinton has got to counter Obama's "MO".

What Party To Support?

If you see the 2 party system as a lump of crap, then this is an interesting question. Where do you put your support in the upcoming elections? That is a question that you must answer for yourself. Me? I am looking at the Green Party. Why? Their statement of principles is closer to my own beliefs than any other party. There is also SPUSA, but they are just looking for attention that they will never receive.

For me, it appears that the winner and the nominee of the Dem party will be someone I cannot support. Why? The two leaders, as of now, are just business as usual. They want to reform Nafta, Health care, yada, yada. I have a prob with reform. Why? It is a temporary fix, easily changed, and will not be any help. Reforms are about as worthless as the lip service it receives from the candidates. If there is not change, then NOTHING will change.

Okay, how about the GOP candidates? (the sound of gut wrenching laughter can be heard in the background).

As Axl Rose sang in patience, "where do we go, where do we go from here?" It is a scary prospect--the choices that the voters are given, that is.

Primaries And Electoral politics

I have been watching so much on the primaries and the approaching elections and I have reinforced my belief that the process needs a major overhaul.

For instance, the campaigns in the primaries should be 90 days. They should be publicly funded and winner takes the state. Then once a candidate is picked from each party, then the election process should be 6 weeks long and publicly funded. Issues only! No dragging family into it.

This would help give the campaigns and the elections more significance. And stop the brain drain on the population.

Obama Plays The Oprah Card

It is 3 weeks from the caucus in Iowa--time to play a trump card. for Obama that is his benefactor, Oprah. She will join the stump in Iowa, SC and NH. Will she help? That is thye $64 question. In the recent past, not too much difference has been made by the use of celebs. But Oprah is Oprah and about a ga-zillion women listen to what she says.

IMO, she will not do much to gain the young voters, more likely she will help convince the older women, say 35-60 group. If that occurs, she will be pulling from some of Clinton's audience.

It will be interesting to see after her stump with Obama and the next polls, to see if she will make a difference. I think she will not make that much of a difference.

Let The Attacks Begin

Do you remember Willie Horton? Probably not! well he was a prisoner than Dukakis let out of prison and he committed more crimes--it was the campaign hot topic--it was a big influence in the Dukakis loss.

Someone in the Repub camps sat on a story about a rapist in Arkansas that was released by Huckabee and he committed more stuff. Now that Huck has jumped ahead of Romney--the story comes out. Will it be successful? Most likely.

Dems are also jumping on the trash chucking tactic. Clinton camp has issued a piece about Obama when he was in Kindergarten saying that he wanted to be Pres. this somehow makes him look too ambitious.

IMO, anyone that is running for Pres is ambitious, to include Hil.

oh yeah, I need to address religion. Why? Don't ask! But Huck's popularity seems to be his religious background, sooooooooo--Mitt will go on TV and explain Mormonism. He thinks this will help him as it did with JFK when he addressed his catholism.

Will this work? I question its timing. To me he is looking a bit desperate. The whole religion thing will most likely be vague at best.

A Dream Ticket?

For months now I have seen several articles in discussion forums and blogs and papers about the dream presidential team.

I have seen Clinton/Obama, Rudy/Huckabee, Richardson/Dodd, Mitt/Howdy Dowdy, just about every combination imaginable. But yesterday I heard one that I had not seen nor considered. A news report said that Dennis Kucinich if he were the nominee would ask Ron Paul to be his running mate.

That would be an interesting combination, a semi-socialist and a libertarian. I gave it a lot of thought and I would probably vote for this combination. Both Kucinich and Paul have foreign policy issues I like, Kucinich has social policies I like and Paul has some intersting economic policies.

IMO, they would make a good team and woulkd be good for the USA. Something to think about.

The Approaching Storm

The primaries are but a few weeks away and after that we will have to decide which nominee is the best for the country. Whether to vote Dem or Repub--it really does not matter because whichever you choose will be just a continuation of the present.

As I see it, one more administration like the last several and a real political revolution will become inevitable, but it will become possible and most necessary. The middle class is taking it in the ass daily, the wealthy are given every advantage. But the larger question is, when will the American people decide enough is enough?

We have an opportunity to make a true difference for all Americans, but sadly, it will be missed! That is right, I have NO faith in the American voter. They stupid and lazy! With their choices made they have higher prices for essentials and a continuation of bullshit. I suggest that you keep ignoring the 800 lb gorilla in the room and you will make revolution inevitable.

CHUQ

So You Want Change?

Do you really think that you can change the direction of this country? You think that your vote will give you that new direction?

HA! HA! HA! Not a f*cking chance!

Whichever party you chose to vote for is a vote for the continuation of the scary road that the US is traveling. Nothing said or done by either party is gonna make a new difference in this country. Special interests rule the political process. The only way to break this strangle hold on the politics of this country, is to break the process. This cannot be done from the ballot box, for that is just a tool to justify the existence of the process. This is not a democratic process. If it were there would be more choices than 2. Actually it is a single choice with a different name. For both parties are different sides of the same coin.

Change can happen but it will require the voter to get off their collective asses and demand and make the change happen. But, because it will take action, the status quo will remain, few are willing to get involve or to assist in change. Sad, that a country that is so proud of its democratic past, has little chance of a democratic future.

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Are They Serious?

I ask the question of the GOP candidates. So, are they serious about being the leader of the country? IMO, they are not! Or they just do not have a workable plan and they will play it by ear if they are elected.

I will bet you would like to know why I say that?

Alrighty then, what is their plan, any plan for the economy? What is there plan on any of the major issues, for that matter? If you spend enough time analyzing their stands you would find there are no actually stands just a endless stream of bovine fecal matter. They have no agenda, other than to be elected by brain dead conservatives.

The last Repub debate, seldom did any of them talk about Iraq or spending or Katrina cleanup; they did however talk volumes on Clinton. They spent a bunch of their time attacking her stands and avoided anything that would remotely sound like a plan on their part.

IMO, they are trying to unite a fractured party, the GOP, and could care less about the real issues that face normal Americans daily. If anyone votes for a person who has NO real plan, then I question your sanity. Because only a brain dead, in-bred lump of moronic sh*t could find anything likable in the GOP!

That is it! Like it or not!

CHUQ

The Iowa Caucus

This is my take on the importance of the Iowa Caucus. Polls! Polls! Polls! There is you answer. For instance, let say Huckabee wins Iowa--the media will immediately make him one of the front runners and that will spill over to the rest of the process. He will remain a front runner even if he does not another primary or caucus for a month.

Basically, the media will tell the people who to vote for in their process. The media makes or breaks the ones they want to. Paul gets lots of web play but he is still pretty much ignored by the media. The same with Kucinich and Biden. The media has zeroed in on who they want to be the nominees and they will play that for all it is worth.

Iowa has 1% of the population of the USA, but yet the day after their caucus, they will be saying who the leaders are. One of the country's most conservative and white states and the media is gonna let them dictate.

If American mental midgets would get off their lame ass and do their decsions, the country would be a better place. Laziness is no excuse for letting someone decide your candidate for you. YOU people are truly sheep.

Anger is slipping into my diatribe, I will close with that said!

CHUQ

SCHIP Compromise

Last week the Congress passed the SCHIP and sent it to the Pres and he vetoed it. Now it is kicked back and the Congress will try to override the veto. But wait! The Pres has said that a compromise needs to be found. That was very conciliatory of him, right? NOT! He is playing for time. If they go into negotiations then there will not be a vote to override anytime soon. He is playing his cards close to his chest, for the Congress may not have the votes to override. So Bush is thinking that negotiations for a compromise will give him time to make sure that the Repubs that have been rubber stamping him for 7 years will continue to do so.

After check around the Dems may go for this, if they feel they do not have the votes for the override. If that happens all is lost! The kids that would have health care will be kicked to the curb in the name of a compromise.

I say call the a/hole's bluff and go for it! Since everyone believes that the children are our future, then why risk screwing the future? All in the name of compromise.

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Clinton Looks More Like The "Gal"

A new Washington Post poll shows that Clinton is at 53% approval and Obama is at 20%. All his positioning in the papers and in interviews, etc, is not helping him at all. His positions are not popular. Clinton is looking more and more like the nominee, someone had better challenge her and soon. If not they can go home and play golf.

Yes, it will depend on how the first couple of primaries and caucuses go, but right now she looks unbeatable. Someone needs to get the motor started, time is short and the longer they let her continue to make points in the polls, the harder it will be to catch or pass her.

Clinton is running a great campaign. She is an establishment candidate and she is sounding like a people candidate. A real good sell job by her and her staff. Regardless of her chest thumping about domestic policies, she is still an "old school" politician and as such will have the support of business and political machines. None of which means the people will get anything new when she becomes Pres.

I want to see just how these other "candidates" handle the news of her popularity. If they stay silent she will win. If they attack in the media, she will win. Their only hope is to face her down and attack her policies in an open forum, face to face. If they cannot bring themselves to do so, then I suggest they give Tiger a call and go play 18.

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Obama And The Future

He has none! Unless he finally decides to grow some cajones and take on Clinton face to face. He sounds good in speeches, interviews, sound bytes, but when he is face to face with the other candidates he appears sheepish and all. Dems are losing it, they are not stepping up and illustrating that they have what it takes to undo what Bush has done. He and Clinton are doing well raising money, but what good is that if you are not willing to be an individual. This whole thing of not wanting to isolate voters is turning these people into wimps. Clinton will get the nomination unless someone grows some nuts and shows that they are the best alternative.

Obama needs to show some backbone, before it is too late. If Clinton wins Iowa, NH and SC the whole process may be over and then he can go sit it out for another 4 yrs.

The time is now and now would be a good time to take those stupid gloves off and start hitting the broad with all he has. It is not working all this he said she said crap in the papers, face to face and let it fly. Even if he loses he will win! He will appear to be the only candidate that has guts and is willing to go after what he wants. He will be a winner and the people will remember his guts and fortitude; it will pay off in the future.

Obama! Please give the people something to look forward to; we are having enough of the crap as usual stuff. Help us! Please!

CHUQ

A New Immigration Test

The new test will take effect soon. All immigrants will have to pass this new test to become a citizen. What do you think about this, Professor? Well, I have mixed thoughts on this subject. I can see where the old test was a bit simple and a trivia test and i can also see why you would want a new test to get the new citizens involved in the process. My only question is, was this done as a slap at Hispanics? Or was this done to help cull perspective citizens? Both sides of this have excellent position when debating the situation. Kudoos!

OK, I have thought on this and I see that it could be a good thing. Why? Think about it! If the immigrants have to become more in tune with the political process they could become better at electing real representatives than we Americans. They could be better politically educated. I see that as an excellent thing if it occurs.

Come on, let's be real here. Americans are getting dumber by the generation. Look at this way Americans demand safer cars, they demand sexual predators be whacked, they demand ......they demand. But when it comes to representatives they demand really nothing more than a party affiliation. Where is the intelligence in that?

I taught a class on geography and out of 20 freshman college students 2 could find Afghanistan on a map, 0 could find Vietnam. In Middle school the students think that WWII was the US and Germany against the USSR. Apparently we are more concerned on who prays in school or who does the pledge or ........whatever, that all else is just aggravation to the teachers. If these are indications of "No Child Left Behind", then I say make the immigrants smarter and more politically savvy. Then white people will really have something to bitch about, but guess what? They are stupid and it will catch them off guard.

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Horrible Human Rights Abuses

I watched the Sunday talk shows, yes, I am a news geek, and heard time and time again from Congressional reps that were the guests, say that the situation in Myanmar was nothing short of horrible human rights abuses.

I though about this for most of Sunday and thought I would reply. The day that the Burmese government cracked down on the protesters 9 people were killed in the streets. Some say that is a low figure but for now, it is the official figure. Then if this is a human rights abuse, what of the 11 Palestinians killed on the same day? Civilians Palestinian deaths have nothing more to do with the situation in the region than being alive and living in the wrong place. why is this not a human rights abuse? Or at least why is not spotlighted as such by Congressional leaders?

Now there is an excellent question? You want a short simple answer? To do? AIPAC! The Israeli lobby in Washington. They control the opinions of a bunch of the so-called reps and senators. You will seldom hear any criticism of Israel by your elected leaders. Why? They get way too much money to buck the hand that feeds their lust for money. So Palestinians continue to die and that is their price for being born Palestinian. Sad that Americans do not check their leaders out. If they did they would puke at the influence weilded by some lobbyists.

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A New Congressional Battle Looms

Or does it? The child health bill has been said that it would be vetoed by the Prez. Why? Well, it will cost $60 billion and he has said that it was too expensive and would bust the budget. First of all, what budget? I think that Bush's little military incursion has already busted the budget. Too expensive? $60 billion to save about 6 million children, but $200 billion to occupy a country, I can see why that would be unacceptable. NOT!

Am I the only person that sees a bit of bullsh*t being spread? Are the American so AFRAID of the word "socialized" that they would allow the government to turn its back on millions of children? Marketing, is the answer you are looking for. Just like the WOT the government is selling FEAR! And guess what? The people will fall for it hook, line and f*cking sinker!

I am embarrassed that my country and its people are that lazy, stupid, indifferent, and about thousand other derogatory adjectives. They are so AFRAID of their own shadow that they allow the mistreatment of American citizens in the name of patriotism. THAT IS JUST F*CKING SICK! They are DISGUSTING!

Yeah! I said it---I meant it--now BITE ME!

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Why Do Democrats Look Impotent?

The question has been asked and if you are trying to assess the situation, your head will implode.

Dems came to power with the understanding they had a mandate from the people to end the war. They had the mandate, but not the votes and guess what? Without the votes the mandate was more worthless than my local newspaper. But during the election cycle the Dems were all over the war and promises were passed out like cigars at a birth, but not once did anyone one of them feel that that should stipulate that ending the war would take plenty of votes.

I remember that the Party patted Rahm Emmanuel on the back for his work getting Dems elected to the point that they controlled both Houses. I think it was more that it was inevitable for change and not some genius at work. If this was such a genius how come no one has any idea how to counter the Bush and Repubs on the war position?

So the question is, why are they looking so impotent? No cajones! They are so afraid that if they attack and it fails it will jeopardize the next election. But what about the genius that got them elected last time? NO GENIUS! It was only inevitability that got them elected.

Now ask, what will the next Congress do? What will the next president do? What promises are being made that will not be kept?

The Sad Story Of Voting

Voting and the ad campaigns that surround the act are becoming more and more about selling a candidate instead of a candidate working for the country. Madison Avenue is the source of all voter issues and stances. sell just what the people want to hear, not what is most important to them.

People! Stop listening to the media! They too are part of the process that tells you who to vote for, who is the best, who is the leader, etc. They are telling you who THEY want to be the candidates. So you want examples, OK! Clinton, she is a big money candidate and the media is basing her electability by money. With the Dems, Kucinich seems to be offering mthe people sustantial policies, that takes many of their concerns to heart. But the media has deemed him 2nd tier and his message does not get out as it should. IMO, he is still part of the system that needs repair, but at least there arre parts that I can support.

With both parties the top tier candidates are just offering bovine fecal matter, that with a little luck may trickle down to the people, but the major concern is to keep the wealthy, just that wealthy. Hopefully, you realize that trickle down economics, did not trickle down and any other attempt to trickle anything down to the workers will be just as ineffective.

People! People! Stop listening to the media and Madison Ave., research the candidates and choose the person who will best serve the people of this country, not the special interests.

I regret that this appeal to the people will most likely fall on deaf ears, for minds are already made up on who to vote for--How sad!

CHUQ