A Decent Respect for the Opinions of Mankind

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Friday April 04, 2008 · 10:22 AM PDT

2008/04/04 · 10:22

I’ve heard it called a lot of things; from "the silly season" to one of our country’s "greatest moments". I've heard dire predictions from the faction of the Democratic party who sees Senator Obama as the nation’s "savior" and Senator Clinton as it’s death knell. I’ve heard all the rhetoric pouring forth from the mouths of the politicians and their helpers telling us who we should support. We’ve all heard it. But what I haven’t heard is an honest assessment of what We the People will be gaining from the candidate who wins.

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Considering what Campaign 2000 brought us, how should we handle voter disenfranchisement by the two political parties?

12 votes Vote Now!

Considering what Campaign 2000 brought us, how should we handle voter disenfranchisement by the two political parties?

State legislatures set election procedures, not political parties, so count them

2 votes

Political parties should determine which votes count and which don't

0 votes

Let Senator McCain, Senator Obama and Senator Clinton decide which votes count

0 votes

Political parties have too much power, all votes should count

1 vote

Get rid of the convoluted party delegates and hold an open, direct primary where all votes are equal

3 votes

Follow the original Constitution guidelines for a presidential election and let the two highest vote getters have a runoff for President and VP regardless of political party

6 votes

Save Us, Save Our Country

liberty76

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Sunday March 16, 2008 · 10:54 AM PDT

2008/03/16 · 10:54

Overlooked in the dash for the White House is the most important thing and that is whoever wins the election has one mandate: To save us and by saving us they will save our nation.

We all have hopes and dreams and prayers of a better tomorrow but at the moment we need drastic intervention in the form of some surgery to cut out the cancerous tumor that has been growing for almost eight years. Removing the current occupant from our House will not remove the roots of this monstrous growth. It has to be cut out, and the surgeon we select to do that in November needs to be a specialist, not a general practitioner.

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We have a lot of Issues, which one do you want to see more detailed information from the candidates on?

17 votes Vote Now!

We have a lot of Issues, which one do you want to see more detailed information from the candidates on?

Restoration of the Constitution

10 votes

Economic stability

2 votes

Plans to rebuild our tech industry leading to better jobs and full employment

0 votes

Restructure political parties to return more political power to the voters and to reflect the election process outlined in the Constitution

0 votes

Funding health care for all

4 votes

Funding alternate energy sources

1 vote

Funding programs to prevent further global warming disasters

0 votes

Detailed plans on our future military involvement in Iraq and the middle east

0 votes

Take back leadership of Space exploration

0 votes

A Vote for Change

liberty76

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Tuesday March 04, 2008 · 2:48 PM PST

2008/03/04 · 14:48

No, this is not about Senator Obama or his campaign. For 96 months now voters have been trying to bring an end to an administration headed by George W. Bush and enabled by both Republican and Democratic elected members in the House and Senate. For most of those 96 months, people have been trying not so much to change things as to bring back the government that existed before January 21, 2001. Millions have worked toward this day, contributing their money, their time, and for many, their freedom.

They have had their names added to lists preventing access to public transportation, shuffled into wire pins by police, their right to privacy in their own homes violated, and all the while in violation of the Constitution they had to pass a test on by the time they graduated from high school. So, unlike many non-democratic "democratic" countries; we should be well versed in the difference between a government of the People, by the People and for the People and a government which tells the People how to vote, whose vote counts and whether or not to vote. Nowhere is this more painfully obvious than in state of Florida. Florida elections have become a petri dish of pathogens.

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Saturday February 23, 2008 · 8:38 AM PST

2008/02/23 · 08:38

Well, they’ve done it. While we’ve rushed to watch the fight taking place outside our window, we’ve been robbed again. We’ve taken our eye off the the looters of Democracy and allowed the Republicans to once again steal unchallenged through Our White House.

While obsessed Obama fans were taking a last crack at Clinton with old Republican propaganda before the Wisconsin and Hawaii primaries, the Supreme Court refused to hear the ACLU’s challenge of Bush’s illegal wiretapping. Anyone notice?

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Saturday February 16, 2008 · 10:28 AM PST

2008/02/16 · 10:28

A couple of days ago I received another petition in my email. Over the years that George W. Bush has lived in Our White House I have receive petitions to impeach him and Cheney, to stop the war, to stop the illegal wiretapping, to force him to do something about New Orleans, the environment, energy, to return our Constitutional rights but never, even during our darkest hours when Republicans took election after election and evidence of fraud was rampant, have I been asked to sign a petition changing the way primaries are run by their parties, not even after the Florida Fiasco - until now.

Democracy for America is suddenly concerned that about 900 superdelegates might change the outcome of 20 million Democrats who have already voted because "super-delegates are a contingent of almost 900 elected officials, party insiders, and current DNC members and they aren't required to follow the voters." Being registered with neither party (Independent) I considered this ironic since "party insiders" have been telling me who to vote for all my voting life.

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Are you willing to risk a Republican win to defeat Senator Clinton?

24 votes Vote Now!

Are you willing to risk a Republican win to defeat Senator Clinton?

Yes

13 votes

11 votes

Unsure

0 votes

I will vote for a 3rd party no matter who the Democratic candidate is

0 votes

A Kudzu Kind of Government

liberty76

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Wednesday February 13, 2008 · 12:11 PM PST

2008/02/13 · 12:11

I don’t like being at the head of the I-told-you-so line after every election. My Republican friends liked it even less when my prediction that George W. Bush would be a bad president was remembered about the time they developed their own Bush = bad equation. But it’s hard to see impending disaster coming your way and not try to warn those in the same boat with you. Like what happened yesterday to Chris Dodd as he and his valiant band battled from Our leaky Ship of State even as it was sinking from the onslaught of Republican cannons.

We all saw it coming, the dark cloud still hovering over the Capitol spelled disaster for We the People in spite of all the sandbags we’ve been filling with petitions, phone calls and faxes to throw into the breech. But we did count on more Democratic Senators to bail out the boat; especially those with special influence, like one of our newest senators (05) and now possible presidential candidate Barack Obama.

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Sunday February 10, 2008 · 4:09 PM PST

2008/02/10 · 16:09

Senator Barack Obama supporters are very passionate about his words and phrases, quoting them back to us to try to convince us that we should vote for him, things like "the fierce urgency of now" and "I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington.....I'm asking you to believe in yours."

It makes me feel very uneasy because he seems so out of touch with the last decade of our lives; as if he is unaware that we are the hardened veterans of many battles over the past 7 years; the survivors of the many marches, protests, arrests, and "free speech zones" that we have endured trying to bring that "fierce urgency" of change about long before Senator Obama was elected to the Senate in 2005. It makes you wonder where he was and what was occupying his mind that he speaks as if we have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting for someone to arrive to save us instead of fighting these urgent battles to save our country pretty much on our own. It flirts with condescension and it makes me wary; we know that we hear him but I’m not so sure he hears us.

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Wednesday February 06, 2008 · 2:41 PM PST

2008/02/06 · 14:41

Greetings Obama fans. Please do not jostle, push or shove but wait your turn; there is room for everyone to flay the perverse diarist who thinks your hero is but a mortal man. But questions will be asked and answers needed - and soon - to determine who is best qualified to fix the extreme mess being left in Our White House by its present tenant who will be vacating January 21, 2009.

Super Tuesday is over. It appears, from early data, that Senator Clinton is winning the voting states (in addition to winning the caucuses in American Samoa) while Senator Obama seems to be winning more of the caucus states. Right now, Senator Clinton is ahead; very ahead when you count the votes in the two states, Florida and Michigan, whose delegates were taken away by their party.

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Tuesday January 29, 2008 · 3:40 PM PST

2008/01/29 · 15:40

Reclusive Caroline Kennedy Schlosberg just took a tiny political step forward, wading into the fray of Obama v Clinton by officially endorsing him. And when doing so she wrote a moving piece explaining why.

"I want a president who understands that his responsibility is to articulate a vision and encourage others to achieve it; who holds himself, and those around him, to the highest ethical standards; who appeals to the hopes of those who still believe in the American Dream, and those around the world who still believe in the American ideal; and who can lift our spirits, and make us believe again that our country needs every one of us to get involved."

So do we all.

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Monday January 21, 2008 · 12:55 PM PST

2008/01/21 · 12:55

In April, 2007 I wrote a diary about Freedom from religionpointing out that our Founding Fathers; forced to live under the dictates of the Church of England created by Henry the Eighth to serve his personal need for getting rid of wives that the Catholic Church refused to let him divorce; had inserted in the Bill of Rights one little phrase that took state religion out of realm of government by giving us freedom from being forced to practice someone else's religious ideology. And one of the most troubling aspects of this 2008 campaign is that religious ideology has surfaced as the most important "issue" of all the campaigns; from Republicans Romney and Huckabee to Democrats Clinton and Obama.

It doesn’t belong in the campaign. While we are arguing over whose the most "Christian", real issues that should be the most important to those wishing to represent the whole nation have taken a backseat.

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How important is a candidate's religious ideology to you?

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How important is a candidate's religious ideology to you?

Very important

5 votes

Not important

5 votes

They must share my beliefs

1 vote

Must believe in separation of Church and State

50 votes

Only if they make it an issue

2 votes

I want the Flying Spagetti Monster made the state religion

7 votes

Choosing Sides

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Tuesday January 08, 2008 · 3:31 PM PST

2008/01/08 · 15:31

Today’s mainstream news is filled with New Hampshire coverage of the candidates asking to be president and they chose sides by reporting campaign events with a negative spin or a positive spin. I have been observing this process for many months now, trying to get real information about who among the 8 Democrats and 9 Republicans just might be able to bring prosperity and international respect back to our country because I take my one vote very seriously. And I have reached the conclusion that we know little more today than we knew yesterday about individual candidates.

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Sunday January 06, 2008 · 11:26 AM PST

2008/01/06 · 11:26

The organizations passing as "news" and their employees passing as "journalists" are just about declaring The Winner in an election that won’t come until November 2008. This metaphorical horse race has been a marathon for a couple of years now as a variety of elected officials do that hat toss thing declaring them in the run for what has become CEO of the United States. And while candidates have been galloping around the election track and journalists have been making bets on their favorites; We the People have been trying to get the attention of not only the media, but those candidates running that race, without much success.

All the candidates positions, both Republican and Democratic, differ from what We say we want. MSNBC (no direct link found; go to msnbc. com and then click politics and rate the candidates+issues matrix) has a chart of every candidate and what they are saying about every "important" issue. The most interesting thing about this little poll is that it shows that none of the candidates meet our criteria.

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Should every candidate be allowed to participate in public debates?

12 votes Vote Now!

Should every candidate be allowed to participate in public debates?

All candidates, including 3rd parties

6 votes

Only Republicans and Democrats

1 vote

Only "popular" party candidates

1 vote

Only those with enough support to qualify for matching funds

3 votes

The organization or news agency holding the debates should be able to specify who gets to participate

1 vote

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