Reply #13: Well, you can be sure "the fix is in," and has been for some time.

[Peace Patriot]

Any Democratic Party leadership that would support, vote for and push electronic voting machines, run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations, with virtually no audit/recount controls--and who would help fast-track these election theft machines all over the country, during the 2002 to 2004 period, with a $3.9 billion e-voting boondoggle--has got to be totally fucked up.

In 2004, it meant a phony, manufactured endorsement of the war by the American people--a war that 56% of the American people opposed from the beginning (Feb. 03) and that a whopping 70% oppose today. But what this election theft machinery means NOW--other than continued funding of the war by a Democratic Congress with a 22% approval rating--I'm not sure.

I've always thought that Hillary Clinton was the "made" candidate--chosen by the corporate rulers to consolidate the enormous gains of the global corporate predators, war profiteers and the super-rich, under Bush, and perhaps to take the heat (and make it seem like a "liberal" failure) when the Bush Disasters (their hand grenades to our economy and foreign policy) blow up. Perhaps preparatory to installation of Hitler II.

I'm not entirely sure of that anymore, but remember, this presidential contest is by no means over. Also, something I am very sure of: People are flocking to Obama largely because he's the only one left standing who opposed the war, and is also relatively clean as to the cauldron of corruption in Washington DC. He's new, a fresh face, promising change (however vaguely), and, if there is one thing that this political establishment DOES NOT WANT, it is president in the White House with any kind of mandate to stop the war, or, indeed, who is beholden to the people in any significant way. THEY want to choose who gets to run, and who wins.

Knowing what I know about our election system, I would say that Obama--whoever he is, and whatever he plans to do (and that is not so easy to determine)--will be stopped, because neither the powers in our party (the "organized money," as FDR called it), nor the global corporate predators, and Saudi and Chinese financiers, who are running everything, will permit a grass-roots-obligated candidate to win. And if he does win, in spite of them--say by the people outvoting the machines (which is possible)--he will not be permitted to end the war, nor to accomplish much for the poor and middle class. He will inevitably disappoint his supporters, I think--even if he wants to do something. I do think, though, that the best thing that has happened to this country in a long time ARE his supporters! THEY will reform the country, whether he wins, loses, or disappoints--but it will take some time. Citizen activism is the key to getting our country back.