Reply #37: So far I think I am following what you are saying, though I do disagree...

[IndyOp]

We the people let Bush steal both elections.

We the people have to find our way out of the many holes in which we find ourselves - including corporate power, teetering economy, and ecological collapse.

I believe that politics attracts both the best and the worst among our population and I won't paint politicians with a broad brush stroke - generous, selfish, bright, dumb - they aren't all the same. Politicians may in fact be one of the most bimodal distributions of personality types the world -- some saints and some sinners.

The fact that some sinners have occupied the Oval Office does not make it a gutter or a noose.

I believe Al is brilliant and I believe he may run. If he does, his success will depend on us. We The People - have always had the power and no one can take it away. The only reason *they* have any power at all is because we give it to them. We could take it back tomorrow if enough minds and hearts were aware of what is really happening now and truly believed that we do have the power.