Reply #7: As an IPP, I feel as you do.

[Big Blue Marble]

I started this campaign season, hoping that Americans had enough of the kind of politics we are still seeing as
I write. I wrote the following in another thread on GDP about my observations:

If we do not lower the discourse, and come together as one people we are finished as a nation.
This intense rancor that the Clintons are introducing into this campaign is a continuation of
the politics of destruction that defined the last two decades of the last century.

We need to find common ground with the people of the right and they with us. This is
just a stupid way to elect our leaders. Each time it is over, half the country is furious at
the other half and nobody wins except the multi-national corporations and dysfunctional
leadership that has been misguiding this country for over thirty years.

Obama has offered us a path out of this abyss. We can choose to follow him and move forward
together to start solving the greatest challenges our nation and our world have ever faced or we
can follow Hillary and the current crop of Republicans and drive ourselves right over the cliff.

I fear now that even Obama's message of hope and renewal will be lost in the sewer of political rancor.
And once again, we the people, lose.