The great middle will swing to the right if this was an election held today. The failures in the economy and leadership are apparent to all but they real loyalist and they are dwindling in number.

I chose not to join a union and work on my own ability to advance and did well. I also needed an income to pay for my addiction called books.

Things changed after I married and had two daughters sand a step son in my care. I had to return to the work force and found myself in competition with young, beautiful and very talented gals. I snuck a face lift in and got back in the swing of things. In the later years, not even surgery could counter gravity and I returned back to sewing and did pretty well. I did discover that the GOP no longer appealed to me. The corruption weighted down my party until I simply gave in and worked with Perot and then the LP.

I still carry a hope that some miracle will land on America and my agenda will be returned to some movement. I draw the line at having to be baptized to be necessary by any political movement.

From [Dick Morris'] triangulation to Obama’s implementation of a straight Republican agenda, from Bush’s continued tax cuts to a “health care reform” program that hands 35 million new customers over to the health insurance companies, the same ones who are destroying our health system.

And then there is the Supreme Court . . . I’m afraid that’s about all Obama’s got going for him heading into 2012.

I believe dogs are smarter than most Americans.
Dogs learn who their masters are much earlier than the majority of morons who call themselves Americans.

CHB seems like a little community of thinkers and debaters, who are aware of our current situation.

The movie “Idiocracy” is no longer comedic but descriptive.

That’s all ….

More likely you have a revisionist memory of how that worked out. I’ll take a 5% unemployment rate and a triple A rating under another Texan over the crap the current poser in chief has given us any day.

In the book “The Rich and the Super Rich” by Ferdinand Lundberg (deceased) written over 40 years ago it outlines how the process takes place. Consensus for whom viable candidates might be is first achieved via the chain of “gentlemen’s clubs” that cater to the super wealthy; ie., the Rockefellers, Mellons, Scaife’s, Koch’s et al. Once a distillate of those that will ‘perform’ to their directives, they then utilize their MSM outlets to ‘push’ the product down our collective throats. “We the people” friendly candidates be damned. This is Ron Paul’s problem. They perceive him and his ideas as enemies of corporate hegemony over the unwashed masses.

http://www.amazon.com/Rich-Super-Rich-Study-Power-Money/dp/0818400692

It’s not simply circumstance that he’s put on ignore. Candidate selection and voting have become an ‘engineered marketing process’, all to our collective detriment. Believe it…! : |

Carl Nemo **==

Wonder why the mainstream media is afraid to even mention his name…?

No truer words have been written concerning our now devolved election process.

One of my all time favorite bumper stickers I’ve come across is: “Don’t vote it only encourages them”.

During the Roosevelt era presidencies which included the Depression and WWII, the Democrats were thought of as the “People’s party”. The Republicans have always been the flagship party of the monied class with little kinship for labor or addressing social problems in a reasonable fashion. If they had their way, you’d still have children washing bottles by hand for ten cents an hour twelve hours a day, six days a week.

Unfortunately both parties have been compromised by corporate interests via their lobbying efforts. When the rubber meets the road, all modern legislation is to the public’s detriment while their corporate sponsors laugh all the way to the bank, no different than the “robber barons” of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

It doesn’t make a difference whether we’ve had a Reagan, two Bush’s, Clinton, Obama or a future Bachmann, Perry or whomever in the White House because they all report to “Mr. big bucks” who sits behind the shogi screen calling the shots.

Their solely owned MSM outlets, proffer these clowns to us; simply allowing the unwashed electorate to indemnify their pre-selection. The process of voting has turned into nothing but a feelgood charade for “We the People”.

The time for real change is coming for better or worse; but it will come as a function of “rushing their perimeter” along with blood running in the streets. : |

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“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country… Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.” …Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865

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Carl Nemo **==