Obama is a useful foil for the corporate plutocracy that presided over the rapidly fading American Dream.
Will Americans ever wake up and smell the republic burning?
The Conservative Right has managed to convince taxpayers that investing in services and infrastructure is prohibitively expensive, and that only by delivering tax dollars to private sector enterprise can the nation be saved.
Predictably and sadly the Democratic Congress, after increasing its majority in the House and Senate, has signaled that it will keep to the middle.
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Why do republican voters consistently vote against their own interests? Despite the economic, international and domestic disasters, they will troop to the polls and vote McCain/Palin. Any sane person has got to wonder if soup is washing around in their heads. A broken economy.
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Commonality of purpose is the devotion of all citizens to maintain the peace and freedom that is endemic to the here and now, and binds each citizen to one another in mutually declared loyalties.
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The red states, those that have typically been voting republican because they despise taxes and because the government intrudes on their lives are almost, without exception, welfare cases.
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An elementary course in Constitutional Law teaches that the criminal and civil justice systems are passive. That is, the courts and the police are asleep until such time as a wronged party, or one who can't find relief without waking the court, complains.
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It's not difficult to make the case that conservative republicans suffer from a form of mental illness. Americans have watched them embrace family values and discover ethics, while stealing an election and contriving the circumstances for starting wars.
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"On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." — H. L. Mencken (1920)
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Palin is living in a fantasy world. As Alaska's governor, and the former mayor of Wasilla, a town of 6,000 people, she is suddenly chosen to be McCain's running mate.
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Twiddlededee and Twiddlededum - Going Down For The Count.
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Is she completely out of her mind? Watching her pretend she had a shot at the nomination redefined ambition as sightless, dangerously reckless, and a harbinger of doom for anyone who took her seriously. Now she has the unmitigated gall to invite herself into the veep spot.
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