Republicans are being manipulated in the same way. Despite their widespread disgust over their candidates, they are being force fed John McCain:
THE TIME HAS COME TO ADMIT WE ARE IN DEEP TROUBLE
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And by doing so, ask what the appropriate response is to what is happening in our Nation right now.
I have been dancing around this idea throughout many thread responses. Others here with an astute eye have also seen the same things that I see.
What do we do as good citizens, if we learn that our votes and our freedoms, are merely phantoms, illusory beliefs, as we are really operating under a strictly controlled environment?
Look at our "choices":
McCain
Romney
Hillary
Obama
Barring yet some other unforseen event, the four above represent the "pool" of talent Americans will be asked to choose from for POTUS in nine months.
While there is certainly experience and talent in the Democratic choices, look at who couldn't make the cut on the Democratic side:
John Edwards
Joe Biden
Chris Dodd
Dennis Kucinich
Bill Richardson
See a pattern there? Besides all being immensely talented and offering policies and programs that speak to a REAL, not FIGURATIVE, "CHANGE", they have all been thoroughly silenced in this campaign.It is my opinion, that the the two candidates left standing, are the only two who assure the continuation of the status quo.
What status quo?
The CORPORATE domination of the United States.
We are in a stranglehold over our society, held by a cadre of Corporations, who will not permit their dissolution, or even a weakening of that hold.
Yes, our politics now proves what I have always said.
There is no viable reason I can discern, for John Edwards to have suddenly left the political arena. NONE! He has cash, support, delegates, and everything necessary to play deal-maker at a brokered convention.
Add to that Obama's soon to be REZKO affair being highlighted and there is truly, some strong questions that demand answer.
WHY EXACTLY IS JOHN EDWARDS LEAVING THIS RACE???? EVEN JRE DID NOT EXPLAIN IN HIS TERSE REMARKS, ANY REAL RATIONALE FOR THAT DECISION.
If we don't have any freedom of choice, but the ILLUSION OF CHOICE, what are we to do? You can be sure that all of Bush's rendition plans, the eavesdropping, have all been constructed as contingency plans for anyone that gets too interested in asking these questions.
Afraid yet? You should be. If John Edwards can be silenced, we all can be silenced. If we are silenced, it has been by people who don't hold elective office.
Do you just want to be mere uninformed cattle, believing they we have a part in our Government? Can you even see that this is happening right under our noses, without any outcry, while Corporations control all of the messages and ideas?
I, for one, would like some answers. But, we will never get them , if we all acquiesce and fail to insist on an answer.
Even if you support Hillary or Obama and are happy with these choices, you ought to be concerned when a viable candidate leaves the stage, as John did, AND NOT ONE TV COMMENTATOR, ANYWHERE, ASKED , "WHY"? WHY, is the most obvious question, yet it was never discussed, only accepted.
So, as an experiment, ask yourselves, "why"?
Please, all smarmy non-thinking responses are only additional distractions, we don't need in this conversation.
OF COURSE Edwards was forced out. What, with him rising in the polls nationally, with him being able to get delegates to force a brokered convention, with a major ad buy in the works, with campaign stops arranged all over Super Tuesday states, and suddenly he withdraws?
Our national party WANTS to lose. There is no other explanation.
