So PATHETIC!

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UG... I would buy that if they could even articulate what "victory" meant, better yet, if President Dufus could spell it.

I'm not seeing that much space between the Clintons and Bush here. They all have problems with the Bill of Rights and oppose free markets. Bush nationalizes education and health care to serve business cronies, while Hillary would do the same to grow the Fed Gov serving her people. If we think about what facism and socialism originally meant in terms of internal public policies these two clowns are both on board.

What is TERRIFYING is that Bush is BETTER on the environment than Bill Clinton was.
You have no idea how much I fucking hate that!!!

Join the zoo
 

Something implied from a Heinlein Sci-Fi story:

We, the general populace do not live in a true democracy!

We all live in a zoo, true we elect our attendants, aka the Congress
who are supposed to take care of us. But they answer to a
higher authority: the unelected Beltway and Wall Street Mob
who provide for their re-election funds and dictate policy.

The US has never been a democracy, who would want that?

I all comes back to the voters... and non-voters.
The politicians that are bought and paid for, are reelected. If they weren't, then the money for ridiculous extended campaigns would taper off. Sure, they could still be bribed for votes on the floor, but at the risk of loosing their jobs.
The politicians have to go along to get along because they can't rely on the voters to back the up if they do the right thing.

Two more have stepped up- Huckabee and Tommy Thompson.

Does anyone here really think ANY republican can win?

Rudy is winning--by talking less about Iraq and Bush.

Clinton and Obama are on the spot, like it or not, because right now the Demos in Congress don't have the votes--or some would say, guts--to get the troops the hell out of Iraq now!

Oh, speaking of campaign finance. What's with Obama wanting to have publicly-funded campaigns?

Candidates shouldn't have to cater to wealthy contributors, or spend ever waking moment fundraising, to the exclusion of all else. Public financing is one possible solution to that. I'm not sure how well it would work, but that's the idea behind it.

I'd be willing to bet that it would take more taxes then people are willing to pay. So, since raising taxes is now political suicide, we'd probably wind up looking at another drain on an already over-extended treasury.

The total spent on the campaign by all candidates and associated groups in 2004 was about $600M, considerably less than a week's worth of Iraq war.

Why bring the Iraq war into this? It was a horrible mistake, but one that we're stuck with until a workable solution can be planned out to get our troops home. So short term after such a bill would be passed is another strain on the treasury, albeit a small one.

Which might mean they'd have to make do with less than $600 Million. No more back-to-back slander ads for six months in swing states. Oh, the horror.