Perhaps I'm more cynical than political, now.  As such, I won't play favorites left or right on an open forum seeing if I can fan a flamefest into anything more than that about politics.

I live in the United States and WHOEVER ends up president will have the most messed up situation in the history of this country to straighten out.  Housing prices are dropping like a slippery barracuda, many banks teeter on the edge of collapse. Health care costs have exploded like a super-nova and people are living on the streets that owned their own homes last week.

Since the removal of the anti-usury laws under Reagan, that were NOT re-institued when the Clintons had the chance to do so, predatory lending practices have become the norm.  Also as a result of this, the greatest transfer of wealth in human history has taken place from the lower classes and the mythical middle classes of America, to the the most highest class.

The top 1% of America owns around 88% of the real wealth in the country. A similiar situation (BUT not as extreme situation) existed in Czarist Russia, and Pre-Revolution France.  Only because America IS such a rich country has no-one really noticed.

Until NOW. Niether McCain, nor Obama have pushed forward anything useful to really deal with the situation.  $4 a gallon gas was the tipping point. Now Food, rent, energy costs, housing start-ups, and shipping costs are shooting up uncontrolably and I'm watching friends losing their homes and starving in the street because of this.

One of the dyed-in-the-wool oil men, T.Boone Pickens have broken with the oil lobby and is advocating using wind power,tide power, and geo-thermal to power the electrical grid, and using natural gas to power automobiles to give us time to come up with better ways of handling the power catastrophe in our faces.  Well--good for him!  Someone trying to think out of the box.

The clock is ticking. McCain doesn't impress me because if he voted with Bush 90% of the time, and Bush was wrong most of the time....well, we have a saying here in the south: "If he's lost ALL the time, don't try to follow him out of a burning house." :laugh:

If Obama is progressive, isn't that better than anti-progressive, or regressive? :lol:

Terms of political crap aside--If someone doesn't DO something REALLY BIG, America may collapse into a depression or something worse in the next four to eight years. Partisanship is destroying the country.

I did watch the Democratic convention and the ONLY people that impressed me were the four or so "REAL PEOPLE" they had talk.!

I'd be in favor of BARNEY SMITH for president!  Barney Smith before Smith Barney!  People's rights before Business's rights! :laugh:  He made a HELL a lot more sense than Ralph Nader. :lol:

I cannot save the world. Only my little piece of it. If we all act together, we can save the world.--Nelson Mandela
An  inconsistent hobgoblin is the fool of little minds
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