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They aren't asking the right questions.
This looks more like password than a Presidential debate.
Who can spin the best under the pressure of a live national audience?
So I over-exaggerated, YOU get off a chopper in a war-zone and tell about it!
Yes, he said some unkind words about me, but hey, I FORGIVE him.
No, she will not be on the ticket,
No, he will not be on the ticket.
Yes, he can beat McCain,
Yes, she can beat McCain.
I have baggage, filled with experience.
I have baggage too, filled with hope.

We are so shallow. The economy has jettisoned to the number one issue. Yes, gas is $4.00/gallon and you have to make some hard decisions about the bingo commute. Meanwhile, The Bushies long tern agenda (to control oil from the source), now has no less than 40 countries on the verge of revolt because their basic staples of life; Corn, rice, and wheat are either being used for hybrid fuels or the associated transportation costs (diesel) have tripled in the last year. Inflation is out of control, energy costs are soaring, the coast of a loaf of bread and a wedge of cheese now eliminates a sip of wine to accompany, and consumer confidence is about as high a centipede's underbelly. And the war goes on.

I want to say this here and now. There two dirty little secrets running betwixt and between all this gloom. The rich get richer in times like these. Monopoly teaches us to buy houses when their owners are bankrupt, and then wait out the storm and cash in when the market recovers. The Oil Barons are laughing at us as we just keep fillin 'er up. While on Wall Street the 'players' trade on something so slimy and manipulative as "futures and market uncertainties". There is one DLS. The other is the elite class known as Share Holders. How many times have you heard a guilty-as-sin CEO cite this group as the reason for his unscrupulous actions? As in, "I owe it to our shareholders to lie, steal and cheat to meet third quarter projections? Add kill. BECAUSE THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING IN IRAQ. Do you think that a shareholder at Mobil/Exxon annual meeting stood up and said (after the record profits were applauded) that maybe the blood/gas ratio could be softened in the next quarter, just this one time? Look the other way folks, hide your head in the sand. We have met the enemy and it ain't the Iraqi, Afghani, Somali, Bosnian, Serb, Chinese, French, Catholic, Muslim, Hispanic, Israeli, Black, Female, Gay, Commie, Liberals........ IT IS US. The collective us, all Americans. And our revered system that allows all this carnage to take place under the guise of freedom and democracy.

So when Obama says he stands for hope and change. I say BRING IT. Bring it for the people who need the maize, who can only afford to barter for rice, and who would starve without wheat. We can take care of ourselves.

So why don't we?
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