Change is coming to America. One way or another we are going to see a new President in 2009. Change does not necessarily mean progress. Women understand this better than men, after all, they are the "slaves of fashion," and fashion changes every season. We men don't usually get it. For us change is accomplished with the TV remote.
Politicians, if they are any good at being politicians, change with the shifting public opinion. If they are not good at it, they are not good politicians. Elected officials need to work like actors. They have to be competent to act out the will of the electorate. What a politician needs is a set of basic principals that match the principals of the people. The people need to understand that there are some genuing principals embodied in the United States. We, the people, need to understand that a corporate tyranny is no different from a government tyranny. We need to be united against all tyranny.
This is why I find myself supporting more than one Democrat running for President of the USA. I think two, perhaps three of the present candidates represent the fundamental principals of the USA. Barak Obama, Bill Richardson, and John Edwards. Of the three, I think that John Edwards is the most dedicated to these principals. His foundation is the strength of the working middle class. And his constituency is the working middle class.
Here is how he puts it.
"I may be the underdog in this campaign, running against two candidates with more than $200 million between them ? but the real underdogs are the middle class and those without a voice in America today.
They are losing ground while the CEOs of huge corporations pocket million dollar bonuses and corporate lobbyists get their way and promote their special interests in Washington.
While ExxonMobil rakes in record profits and receives government handouts, gas prices are going through the roof, oil has skyrocketed to $100 a barrel and the middle class is paying through the nose at the pump.
Meanwhile, 200,000 veterans ? men and women who proudly wore America's uniform and served with honor on behalf of our country ? will sleep tonight under bridges and on grates, ignored and uncared for by their government.
I know you cannot negotiate with the entrenched, moneyed interests who are strangling our government. You have to fight them and stand up to them. That is what I have done my whole life ? and that's exactly what I intend to do as president of the United States."
He was alone in making that statement, because, until an incident in a New Hampshire coffee shop, no one else had said it.
I feel like I have missed a deadline with this article. The Clinton Tears have been examined, cross examined, deconstructed and reconstituted a few million times over the past few days and the New Hampshire Primary has entered the realm of election theft conspiracy. Still I have not seen a single comment that fits my own thoughts on "Clinton chokes on her own words." The words are what should be examined, along with the emotion behind them. She said, "I am passionate" about this. Paused, composed herself, looked directly into a camera, one of several on the scene, and said, "I have so many opportunities from this country. I just don't want to see us fall backwards." I can imagine myself going all emotional on that comment. I can imagine any American in today's political atmosphere choking up on the same thoughts. I am passionate too. We all have so many opportunities from this country. I don't want to see us regress any further. The working class in American is what made America.
Investment is important, but it is the person in the mine or the factory who built this nation, and they, or rather we, deserve a fair share of the profits.
There are three candidates who get it, and until that incident, I did not think Hillary Clinton was in that group.
John Edwards has been saying it from the beginning. He has been promising to stand for working people. It is his major position. Barack Obama gets it, it is the story of his life, his biography if you will. Bill Richardson dropped out of the race.
Those three, until the day before the New Hampshire Primary, have a genuine interest in the general welfare of this nation. They do not represent great aristocratic fortunes. Their biographies are not quite rags to riches stories, and not one of them will claim to have done it all alone, but they do exemplify the best of the "American Dream."
I would contend that anyone who does not get at least a little choked up thinking about the possibility of progress for the working people of this nation is either a fool, a swindler or a Republibot.
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