Partisan? Bipartisan? Either answer means you don't understand the question

[RufusTFirefly]

Partisan, bipartisan, nonpartisan. They're all equally suspect.

The entire issue needs to be reframed. If you think it's about whether to be partisan or bipartisan, you are falling into a trap.

It's about whether to listen to the will of the people or to ignore them.

Most Americans are concerned about health care and some are literally dying in the struggle to support a better system that takes the insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies out of the equation. It is Congress, the President, and the aforementioned robber barons that are providing the obstruction. Not the American people.

Most Americans recognize Iraq is a huge mistake that is destroying lives, depriving the economy of billions, and sabotaging decades of priceless international good will, and they want to get our troops out of there is soon as possible. They don't want troop withdrawal to blow up in our faces, but they definitely want the troops out. It is Congress, the President, and the military industrial complex that are providing the obstruction. Not the American people.

Most Americans recognize that global warming is a real and serious problem and that we need to do something about it right away. They have concerns about the effect it will have on their lifestyle, but they don't want to leave their children with flooded cities and an uninhabitable planet. It is Congress, the President, and the fossil fuel giants that are providing the obstruction. Not the American people.

Most Americans recognize that NAFTA has been devastating, casting millions out of work or forcing them to work inferior jobs. Sure, they like cheaper goods, but not when they don't have a job so they can buy them or the time so they can use them. It is Congress, the President, and the greedy corporations that are providing the obstruction. Not the American people.

Some argue that a call for bipartisanship means capitulation, while others claim that continued partisanship will only serve to insure gridlock. Both groups are missing the point.

The fact is that much of America is already unified on these key issues and many more. It is Congress, the President, and the presidential candidates who are providing the obstruction. Talk of partisan or bipartisan is a diversion. It only makes the issue murkier and almost guarantees that things will get worse not better.

The question is whether our elected officials are going to serve the people or whether they'll continue to do the bidding of greedy corporations.

I'd like to see which side of that question each candidate is willing to line up on. We already know where most of the American people stand.