Quote Originally Posted by IDCrewDawg View Post
No offense, but that is an unrealistic pipe dream!

America watches TV, gets their information from TV, and makes it's opinions based on TV. It's a sad fact, but it's still a fact. As a result politicians put huge amounts of effort into that medium. They also see the internet as an emerging platform in which to make their campaign. Don't believe me? Try going to digg.com and type Ron Paul into the search box, see what kind of results you get. You will return 140 pages of user submitted content related to the name. So to make headway in those political venues they must spend gross amounts of money. Where does someone get the money, from lobbyists of course, and who funds them, corporations of course. So if a candidate wants a snowballs chance in hell of being considered on one of the party tickets, they must show they have the ability to get the monetary support, that means being a puppet to the ones with money.

So, now let's take a look at the candidates, and who is doing what on the issues.

http://www.2decide.com/table.htm

Take a look at the link, it has a chart with each candidate, and their stance on a particular issue. Most of the Dems are for phased pullout of Iraq, almost all of both parties are for the patriot act, hit and miss with military action on Iran (which would be a complete disaster). Our action with Iraq has cause us as a nation to look imperial in nature in the eyes of the world. Is there really a candidate that could fix that? Perhaps, but they wouldn't have the big defense contractors backing through lobbyist.

Clevernick is right, this nation used to be the goal of many nations. Now that just isn't so.

Electing a particular candidate it '08 has the potential to fix things, but it's taken us 30 years to achieve the disaster we are in, one president isn't going to fix it.
I agree with you, but ANYONE has to be better then who we have in office now, anyone, yes it is a pipe dream buta dream non the less, i wouls rather "dream " of things getting better with a change, the know nothing will change after next November
Ah, the joys of the "Free" Political system we have