If you do plan on attending your local Democratic caucus, please consider voting for Senator Hillary Clinton. She's older and smarter than Sen. Obama.

Hi Krist. Alot of people thought the $250 you paid to get it in was a donation but in fact you were just interested. So glad you've cleared that up. Keep up the good writing.

Obama's candidacy resonates a more than a bit for me, and for similar reasons to the ones you gave, Krist.

Julie, above, suggested voting for Hillary Clinton, on grounds that Hillary's smarter and, ahem, older. She may or may not be smarter. She certainly wears her powerlust on her sleave. But, as Ron Paul has eloquently and perceptively pointed out, today's problems are largely a result of a marriage of big business and government, in a quasi-fascistic plutocracy. Hillary Clinton is something of a master at playing the game of this system. I have no reason to believe she would make it better by separating business from government, and certainly not by limiting the temptations to corruption by respecting Constitutional limits on the scope of government. She would simply grow government stronger.

And if her idiotic book on raising children gives any clue, she would further bureaucratize family life, subjecting it to more government intrusions and greater stress from the thumb of police power.

I know less about Obama's policies than Clinton's, but little things like his support for transparency over earmarks suggest that he is not so lockstep statist as Hillary Clinton so obviously is.

Hillary Clinton has been AWFUL on the war, by the way, and anyone who opposes American imperialism has no business voting for her.

I am considering voting for Obama.

GOP frontrunners McCain, Huckabee and Romney are surely as awful as Clinton, so the Republican Party will once agains provide no decent alternative.

twv - You're less clear on Obama's policies because they are muddier. Ron Paul is a neo-nazi, and the media is giving him a free ride.

Hi Krist. I think Obama would be a good choice as president.

Great comments Krist.

First Barak and I are exactly the same age, and his candidacy gives me hope that the post-Vietnam hang-over is about to end. It gave rise the extremist politics at both ends of the political spectrum, which turned out to mainly served the dividers. Should Barak win, history will clearly delineate this election as the moment that our nation began to heal itself.

A shout out to Kelly! You're right on the money (so to speak). The key to undermining that quasi-fascistic plutocracy (nice) is to eliminate its legitimacy. The least violent methods I can think of are to pass laws that: 1) restrict lobbyists from attending congressional committee meetings; and 2) eliminate the credentials of industry-based PACs and lobbyists.

Of course this would never pass because the plutarchs would kill it immediately, but one can dream.

Need details? Read "The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad", Revised Edition by Fareed Zakaria (Paperback - Oct 8, 2007) [no, I don't work for Fareed]

btw, twv, and to think all this time I thought Ron was a Methodist; who knew? Thanks for clearing that up for me. And, twv, your devisive politics are over.

Peace and love from the 70s generation my friends (but no disco).

Enough Already

Yikes. Sorry kids for the name confusion...

Kelly keep the shout-out; couldn't agree more.

tvw on Plutarchs, mea culpa. You nailed it, and I lumped you in with Julie. Shame on me.

Julie, it's your devisive politics that are waning - and do you know Ron personally? Ever been to his house? Just wondering...

Enough Already, enough.

Krist, I've loved you for years, but I must say I'm so disappointed in your endorsement of Barack Obama.

Seems that Ron Paul would have been a more appropriate choice for your "live and let live" pacifist/anarchist philosophy.

Clinton? Nah. The 90s are indeed over. Waaay over. But one truth still holds:

"CORPORATE CANDIDATES SUCK!"

Hi Krist and agree with your views.

Hi Krist and agree with your views.

Hi, I'll just be glad when Bush leaves. I think Obama is the best option as he is young and hopefully holds the opinion like lots of us that things in the U.S must change.

Hope your well Krist

Krist,

Couple points- Hillary voted for the Bush agenda ten times more than Ron Paul. So don't fret over the money going to a guy who talks about shoring up social security and medicare with the trillions we waste overseas.

Secondly, O'bama is actually pretty cool. He talks about the limitations on the office he is seeking. I have NEVER heard Hillary say that. She talks about how America can not afford all her ideas (um, just as much as we can't afford any more Bush).

Lastly, 'twv' has zero credibility.

First, Ron despises neo-nazi (look up what nazi means twv, then relate that to the voting record and public speaking record of Ron Paul).

second- the media gave about 1% coverage to him. It was the war mongers that got the free ride (see http://www.journalism.org/node/9512 as an example). Hillary cries and it is front page news. Ron Paul talks about ending the war, supporting an end to oil and other corporate subsidies, and improving healthcare by ending the D.C/corporate stronghold on it and he gets ignored.

I'm not saying RP is perfect. I have some issues with some of his positions, but lets be honest. He would be an improvement over 95% of the fat cats in D.C.

Krist- THX for the forum to discuss this.

Scott~

Ruth Calabria, Chairperson

We endorse Barack Obama as the next president of the United States.

This is the most important election America will ever have, possibly the last if Barack Obama is not elected.

The Evolutionary Party derives its politics from the equation for evolution shown on the flag that has been in the textbooks for the last eighty years. A mathematical elaboration of it supported by data ranging from chemical kinetics to the evening news indicates that our “war on terror” is slowly but surely escalating to World War III, a truly terrifying thought. For that reason we support Barack Obama, for he is the only real anti-war candidate.

Hillary? Before Hillary came Bill. Let us recall Bill Clinton and his lovely first lady with a clear eye. This all smiling couple sang their song of health care so sweetly to the public but delivered, not on an increase in medical protection, but an increase in prison building and in the number of police roaming the streets, federally paid, looking for a reason to hassle the public and put those who get annoyed rather than cowed into one of those new Clinton prisons. And we accepted it all because it came from such a nice American couple with such nice smiles. Hillary, show us that your showboat is something other than a total fake.

What the Clintons did very much pleased the conservatives, who believe in lock ‘em up law and order because our laws are made by and for the eternal betterment of the moneyed class in America. What the Clintons did took America to the highest per-capita prison population in the world, a statistic historically associated with police states like Stalinist Russia and apartheid South Africa. No, the Evolutionary Party is not saying that America is a police state, if it were, you’d have heard about it on the evening news.

The Clinton presidency also ended social protection for out of work people, again quite pleasing the conservatives. The Clintons ended Lyndon Baines Johnson’s war on poverty and put all the homeless people you don’t see on TV onto the streets of Las Vegas and Sacramento where they are as thick as flies and can’t be missed unless you are blind. As some in the media actually are. Have you ever noticed Carol Costello’s eyes? Right out of the Stepford Wives. She is blind. You are sure of that by what she and the rest of the show your tits newscasters don’t say. Nothing that you actually see on the streets of America and on its busses and in its workplaces is ever talked about on TV.

And you have to wonder who Carole is banging for in the front office. We are not picking on her for that reason, though. Working women all across America have to fuck for their bosses, one way or another, to get ahead in life. So it is very unlikely that Carole is alone as a CNN down on her knees newscastrix. No, we are picking on Carole and on Anderson and on the rest of the well paid greasy mouths on TV for not seeing the more stark realities we lesser people have to live with.

And to all you middle class who don’t care if the Clintons brought us the hoards of homeless beggars that don’t exist in your life, don’t turn your head so soon. It could be you and your family next. Either as one of the homeless, when the economic realities of our trillion dollar war rob you of your job and retirement savings when the market crashes. Or as a victim of the homeless when their rage at being kicked by the police on top of being starved reaches the mass murder point. As it has in a number of other sectors in America where control is abusive, as at work and in our well policed schools.

On a lighter note, Hillary does have a few things she can be proud of. She is a most talented actress and a profoundly adept social climber, our American Evita. But whatever Hillary’s personal accomplishments, she is never going to go against the wishes of the money class that created her and Bill and supported them as their adorable political puppets. Hillary would not show her tax returns, as Obama asked, because they would show the largess showered on the Clintons by the moneyed class. No, Hillary is not going to stop this war, whatever she may say to get elected and star her next movie: Figurehead President II.

Of course, there are those of you that think that Hillary would never lie to us. Bill said he would never lie to us. And he said it so well that I yet don’t believe he lied to us about Monica. Monica who? That is how good an actor Bill is. He’s even a better actor than Brad Pitt. One night Bill crawled into Angelina’s bedroom in Beverly Hills with a cigar in his mouth. Hey, Angelina, he said, my wife’s going to run for president this year. Open your legs and give us your vote. Pass the popcorn, please. It’ll be another four years of that movie, but with Hillary smoking the cigar.

Of course, transgressions are relative. Who is not totally revulsed by the smell of a public rest room fused to the Bible squeezing, boy hustling conservative senator from Idaho? Nobody has caught Bill at that yet. Still, what character is there in a first family when the head of the most powerful nation on earth sticks a penile object, not even his own, up some college kid’s vagina? If this were a movie, would they play the Star Spangled Banner during this scene?

And doesn’t it make you wonder about the guy’s wife? Does any sane female over the age of 22 really think Hillary felt bad about Bill and Monica? Behind all the media hype that protects those who help control the little people, you have to wonder:

A.) Is Hillary is lesbian, a married one, not that unusual in modern America. If Hillary was mad about anything with Monica, it was that she didn’t get a shot at her too. Watch one of Hillary’s lovers surface soon to clarify her tastes as to penile object.

B.) The smiling Clintons are so phony and so slimy underneath that one would not be surprised to find that the inarguably unconfident and possibly mildly retarded Chelsea Clinton was the product of her pervert parents abusing her when she was four years old, the age she seems to be stuck in. Certainly there is as much truth in this outrageous conjecture as the Clintons being good people because they go to church on Sunday. No, what the Clintons are is not good, but likable. Likable is a banana split. You just like how it tastes. You don’t need a reason. The Clintons are an imitation banana split, very likeable, like artificial sweetener that causes cancer eight years down the line.

You can trust what a Clinton says like you can trust what a Bush says. That whole family, George I, George II, Lady Barbara and Lady Laura, are all great actors too. And isn’t it interesting that the Bush daughters, Jenna and what’s her name, are as unconfident and inept as Chelsea. Makes you wonder if Bush uses a cigar too. But on Lady Laura, the Virgin Mary of conservatives?

True, this skit by the one writer’s guild writer who didn’t get rehired is a bit insane. But there are a lot of people around today that are actually insane, not the least of whom are the conservatives, all of which are unbalanced emotionally because of their castration in childhood from the pains of physical punishment and strict obedience. They are inherently defective however much their endless charades from Senate podiums and on Fox News try to hide it. And dangerous when they have weapons in their grasp.

If you want the war and the police state to end, vote for Barack Obama. Not for Hillary, who is so self-serving and devious that you wouldn’t be surprised if she teamed up with Huckabee as VP on a national reconciliation ticket. Or some such curve ball the moneyed class would use to block Obama from getting in and ending our descent into irreversible totalitarianism and worldwide war. Hopefully Obama will not be removed by assassination.

Who are we to say such dark things?

matrix-evolutionsdotcom

As an Australian watching this election process from afar (but closer than ever before really), and with an interest in the political,I would have to say Senator Obama is the ONLY person for this job.

Both Clinton and McCain (even from this distance) come across as power-hungry, reckless, and self-serving. Obama does not seem to want power for power's sake. He appears to have a genuine interest in the job because of what it will enable him to do for the majority of American people. He may even restore much of the integrity the USA has lost during the Bush era ... at least, I fucking hope so.