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I will support any candidate from any party who offers an alternative to the Bush doctrine
of corporate hubris, executive arrogance, neo-colonialist aggression, and unending war.

While I am concerned that both Obama, Clinton, and Bush embrace versions of supply-side
economics, corporate healthcare at home, and preemptive aggression & occupation abroad…

I think that either Obama or Clinton might be preferable to the various criminals at the helm.
John Edwards is the most viable alternative for America.  His only downside, is that he marches
lockstep with Hillary, Bill, Barack, and George in supporting the execution of American citizens
and other prisoners.  No other industrialized democracy on the planet will condone such behavior.

But I would encourage widepread support  for John Edward’s campaign and exploration of his
formidable resources and useful ideas.  www.WritingResource.info/edwards.html
Edwards beat Hillary in Iowa.  He beat the most visible, well-known, and best financed candidate.
(Even though this was largely ignored by the corporate media.) If enough people find out about
his programs before February 5th, he could be elected president.  Obama could be a useful
team member due to his poltitical acumen, organizing abilities, charisma, and support.  

Hillary has too much baggage and is too willing to resort unseemly tactics and unacceptable
compromise, but she could serve a useful role in a cabinet level position on education.  And Dennis
Kucinich can provide useful guidance on a host of issues which matter to the American people. 
In spite of their variable flaws, (Kucinich is short, shrill, and not particularly presidential) we have
some good people in this horse race. 

Let us hope it does not remain a dog and pony show. 

Tim
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       “Privatized Government” is a bad idea….

“One of the key principles of the Republican Party is a smaller government. Republican strategist, Grover Norquist has even said…
“I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

       Over the past 6 years in Washington, the Republcian leadership has been privatizing government in the attempt to make it smaller. However, a privatized government is not a smaller government. It is just a government that gives your tax dollars to companies to provide poorer quality services.
       All you have to do is look at the mess of a privatized FEMA during Hurricane Katrina, the safety of drinking water for troops in Iraq, and most recently the poor care of injured troops at Walter Reed.
      I agree that it is important to cut wasteful spending, duplicate programs, and pork barrel projects. However, people forget that government is by the people, for the people, meaning that government is meant to provide services that people need. Services that help people. Some of these services aren’t able to be successfully done by private business.
       We shouldn’t complain that our money is being spent, we should demand that our money is being spent well. We shouldn’t be giving our tax dollars away for these services to be done by the lowest bidder. Some of these services are too important to be done by the lowest bidder. A smaller government isn’t the answer, the answer is a quality government that serves the people and one that we can be proud of.”
       Century of the Common Iowan
commoniowan.blogspot.com/2007/03/privatized-government-does-not-mean.html

       “The weight of this sad time we must obey;
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
-Shakespeare’s King Lear

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