Our Media And Political System Has Turned

The Property Qualifications For Federal Office That The Framers Of The Constitution Expressly Chose To Exclude For Demonstrating An Unseemly "veneration Of Wealth " Are Now De Facto In Force And Higher Than The Founding Fathers Could Have Imagined.

Fate Handed Barack Obama The Best Of All Political Gifts - A Dyspeptic, Surly, Spiteful Opposition On The One Hand And Very Unpopular Financiers On The Other - And He Wouldn't Come Out Punching, Name Names, Or Go For The Jugular. It Was As If While Getting Mugged By Guys With Brass Knuckles, He Turned The Other Cheek. He Even Jeopardized His Pledge To Preserve Women's Rights Under Roe V. Wade In Order To Get A Health Care Bill Written By The Corporate Lapdog Max Baucus And The Gang Of Revolving Door Mercenaries He Hired To Write A Bill Friendly To Industry.

If You Think There Is Freedom Of The Press In The United States, I Tell You There Is No Freedom Of The Press... They Come Out With The Cheap Shot. The Press Should Be Ashamed Of Itself. They Should Come To Both Sides Of The Issue And Hear Both Sides And Let The American People Make Up Their Minds

I Really Believe That Coincidence Is God's Way Of Remaining Anonymous.

Presidents Are Afraid To Lose Wars. They're Afraid To Be Outflanked On The Right By The Militarists. They Don't Want To Be Seen As Soft On Either Communism Or Soft On Terrorism Or Whatever. So Presidents Are Constantly Tugged Away From Their Domestic Commitments To Foreign Policy.