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Pretty good Mr. Sweeney, I couldn't say it better. Let's keep all these Repubs focused on how well they've done during the 8 years they've had it their way. Exactly how they ordered it. I just saw on the News Hour With Jim Lehrer some video clips of the Bush-Gore debate way back when. Way back, that is, when the issue was how to divvy up the...surplus! Can you believe it? That was rich. (Pun intended.) It's not rich now. ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... How is it that the voters are such suckers? They are about to strike the same old beaten up fishing lure like an Alaskan grayling that just doesn't have it in its brain to get the significance of those treble hooks. ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Oops, I'm writing like an elitist. Newark New Jersey's Imamu Amiri Baraka, aka Leroy Jones, a phony African wanna be, had an expression for that kind of elitism a long time ago. He called it "belittling the consciousness of the people." Too bad he's not around to help remind the McCain crew of the fine tradition they perpetuate.

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Ma'am; I must differ with you. Mccain's speech was not about presenting anything like a rational argument. It was a recognition code offered to a bunker full of ideologues who would accept death before surrender. If it were possible to put Mr. Palin's head on John Mccain's body, he might walk funny, but they would vote for him. She knows all the code words, but with her it is not code, but how she actually thinks. You know, it was supposed to look to America like John Mccain was taking those spoiled rotten republicans to the wood shed, and they sure looked whipped at times. It is hard to have your guy say things are not working as they should, when for you, they are great. But things are not great; and yet, who wants truth out of their candidate? What everyone wants is happy days, and, fear is all we need to fear. What they are handing out in Michigan is: More drilling means more jobs, and the democrats won't let the oil companies drill. The problem is clear: We can't afford the future, but if we only pay more, and give more of our country away for nothing, we can still afford the past. And, it is hard to blame the democrats when they and theirs have suffered most the effects of the republican failures. They may have given wall street and the president all they rope they needed to tie one on, and who knew it was a slipknot? Don't they all buy into the same economic nonsense? As long as they think the great depression is history and not the future, they will not govern.... I think John Mccain and his pet hocky mom should keep their mouth's shut. Forget about romance. He has got his name on the ballot, and his only hope is that more people hate black men than love their country. Short of that, He does not have a prayer. Thanks... Sweeney

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Re: Masako; Sir...to answer why people are such suckers you have to know how difficult change is for people. And it is remarkable that Mr. Mccain would say anything about change, really, since theirs is the party of grab all you can get and lock it up tight. Look at it in its historical context. America does not work. The nation is broke. Dr. Mccain and nurse Plain want to give it the medicine of failed ideals and policies. The people know the situation is looking dim; but they are also bound by other considerations. What is their moral outlook, or their religion, or their racial concerns, or their sex? The thing is; regardless of need, and no matter how much this country needs change and expects it from others, it cannot change because all its ideals, and all its forms, like all forms, -of society, of party, of religion, and even of nation are made, and meant to resist change. The problem is that while these forms resist sweeping change, as in revolution; they do not resist the tinkering sort of change that can make them useless and counter productive for all people over time. And that is where we are today. We need change, and we are afraid of change. We all know the form of government we have is the problem, and we all want it to be the solution. A solution waits while we learn what forms are, and that they can be changed, even though, as Jefferson says in the declaration, that: mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing forms to which they are accustomed. So if it is all of mankind we are talking about, none can be judged worse than another. The rich want to hang on to their forms, and the poor fear also to be without the little protection it gives to them. Until each has had enough of party and government failure the same stupid situation will repeat again and again and again. It is, as Jefferson said, ourselves that we have to right.. Thanks... and best.. Sweeney