The only likeable candidate one could logically vote for is Dennis Kucinich.  He goes where no corporate patsy dare to go.  He is courageous and forthright.  He is actually the people’s candidate whereas all the others appear to be bought and sold by the corporate powers that be.  When he is allowed to debate with all of the “starlets”; he outshines them all and wins the debate.  He is the dark horse that could turn USA’s image around and restore the freedoms the people so easily complied to give up.  Listen to his points and what he will strive to accomplish as president.  He has demonstrated more gumption and problem-solving skills than the rest have not.  He is a man of action that I can have confidence in and not think he is only in the corporate elites’ pocket.  Dennis Kucinich would do USA proud by his actions in the past, present, and what he can do in the future.

Hi, Y’all !

I’m sorry to say this, but Hilary is the only one who’ll stand a chance against whatever Stepford Candidate the Greedy Oil Pimps put up.

Obama seems like a good choice but when I hear Sean Hannity saying that the Democrats should nominate him, I become very wary. By the way, since when does the opposition get to tell us whom we should nominate? Does it make that much easier to organize their smear campaign?

Back to Hillary. If one looks at her personality closely, one realises that she will be another Teddy Roosevelt. That frightens the F*CK out of big business and their corporate monopolies. THAT is why the G.O.P. will launch the ugliest campaign they’ve ever devised, based on what little they have, once Hillary gets the nomination. 

Clinton/ Edwards ‘08 Get used to it.

Ta-ta !

IMNSHO, Hilary is the original Stepford, not a Stepford wife. She urged Bill to bomb Yugoslavia, against US laws and int’l treaties, saying NATO is there to protect OUR way of life, (rather than its actual purpose, which was to defend Europe against attack by Russia) I can’t think of anything that recommends her as a candidate for president - she is backed, and backs, weapons manufacturures, Big Pharma. I think she wants power, pure and simple, and her positions stem from that, rather than the other way around. 
As for Edwards, I can’t get past hearing him speechifying about how he and Kerry would make sure every vote counted, then conceding the next day without a fight. Yes, I know all the realpolitik reasons why they/he did so, but to my mind, that’s not leadership.
This country needs some very drastic actions by thepopulace in order to stop our slide into crypto-fascism, but I don’t see this happening fast enough; although there are calls for a general strike, which is the scale of action it would take, that seems like a pipe dream. An easier thing to try would be massive stop-shopping actions, which would get not only pols’ attention, but their money backers. Would have been super for the ‘holidays’, too.
But that,too, seems much too pro-active from a populace of Stepfords. Unfortunately, she does embody just that quality, and so will probably be elected, or at least be the candidate.

I had hopes for Obama and crossed over (in IL we must declare a party in primaries) from my usual Republican ballot to nominate him in his run for national office.

I’ve been disappointed and think he needs more experience before a run for the White House, but expect he will be back.

Whoever gets it the time (party and individual) is in for a massive headache and I don’t envy the “winner.”

The only Republican I could vote for is McCain based soley on his military behavior and his awareness from day one that the Iraq invasion was way undermanned and a huge misjudgment. Even when advocating the surge he still said it was too few troops.

He realizes Iraq, Iran and no other nation is our principle threat. Iraq is NOT the war — it is only a current theater of operations.

While I don’t agree with him on a whole liist of issues I trust him more than any of the others in either party to do what is best for the U.S.  So far he has pandered the special interests least of all.

Six years after 9/11 and we are still playing games with national security — all else, the economy, Social Security/Medicare, whatever is meaningless if we don’t get real about this. Before you attack any enemy you’d better take stock of your resources and cover your ass.

We’ve made Islamic terrorism our personal war when we should have rallied gllobal support and cooperation from the rest of their targets.

I, like many of my friends, am sick of the Presidential campaigning. We have managed to turn nearly everything these days into a “horse race” or worse yet — “virtual reality”.

We’re tired of hearing what he/she must do in order to appeal to whatever special interest group of the moment.

Bored with what “plan” is proposed for each soon to be ignored weighty issue.

Instead of meaningless and narrow quizzes designed to test the candidates abilities to “think on his feet” — would like only two questions to each person:

• What does the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution say?

• How would you go about carrying out those principles if elected?

whattheheck :

Instead of meaningless and narrow quizzes designed to test the candidates abilities to “think on his feet” — would like only two questions to each person:

• What does the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution say?

• How would you go about carrying out those principles if elected?

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This is the best advice I have heard and it makes more sense than they blowing wind up everyone’s poop-shoot.  A couple of candidates in both parties have been addressing these questions while the promoted “dream” candidates have been parroting what their “sponsors” are dictating to them.  The complicit corporate media inteferes with fair and open reporting by mainpulating the masses to comply with their elitist agenda.  It’s the selective and controlled reporting by the media that gets me perturbed.

Kucinicich is the only man who has consistently and logically worked for progressive principles and lived them daily. That said, he cannot win in the current system. It is a perception problem.
The only man who has both the financial where withal and the political chemistry to unite a majority of voters in places like New York, California, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Iowa and big electoral states is John Edwards.
The very fact that the Republicans are so focused on Hillary and Obama should be ringing warning bells to anyone who wants them (Repubs) out of power first and foremost.  If one looks back to the “safe” nomination of Kerry back in 2004, one only has to look at how the NeoCon controlled media started pushing him as the Democratic party candidate. Good man - boring speaker, doomed what should have been an easy boot of the Bush thugs. 
It is perception that will trump reality every time.
I learned that in the military where a wise and comitted NCO beat that into my head by pointing it’s truth out many times in the sucess or failure of several good - and bad leaders and their grand plans.
Until we, as progressives start to use that core concept to win the perception battle with voters, we will never get the chance to put our principles into action in the real world. Politics today is more hardball than even the “chop off their head” reality of our ancestors simply because what we do or do not do here in America affects the whole world in one way or another - just ask the Iraqi’s and the Pakistani’s how much control they currently have over their own “soverign” affairs.
We will have to understand and use the tools of “perception management” as the Pentagon terms them, to give the voters the perception that Progressive ideas CAN work. John Edwards is the man with that presence and the knowledge of how the system currently works and how it MUST be changed for our Constitutional Republic to recover from some serious wounds and survive for another 200+ years.