If the dems don't win big in Nov - and I mean the executive plus BIG gains in both houses - we are screwn permanently.
Ours is an occupied nation. The invaders came from within, but they are invaders, just the same. They have infiltrated every segment of our national and most state and even local governments. They have built private armies, established megacorporatins to do their bidding. Their leader is named Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney. He runs the occupation forces, has ties to Al Queda as well as the major oil producers. He has aspirations to rule the world. He came into office via a "trojan horse" - got G Bush Sr's idiot son elected, and appointed himself VP. This plan was put into place the minute Clinton beat GB Sr.
These people are not going to go quietly into the night because of any silly election. Their response to being told they are out of office would be "So?"
It looks more and more lately like they are about to make a big move. The smart money is on a surprise bombing attack against Iran, supposedly because they will have received late-breaking "intelligence" that Iran has overnight achieved nuclear superpower status and is prepared to launch. If anything along these lines turns out to be true, then it is probably game over - their coup will be complete, and the latest in the worlds history of megalomaniacs seeking world domination will have outperformed his forebears (Caesar, Alexander, Attila, Hitler, Mussolini - you know, all those role models). Or maybe Ernst Stavros Blofeld, or Goldfinger, would be better models.
If, perchance, that does NOT happen, and we actually go forth with elections, and if a dem wins the WH, then the full frontal assault against Bill Clinton will look like childs play. Obstructionism will be the watchword in congress and in big business. Nothing will get done, while the Machine will continue to enhance its capabilities, just like all those villainous James Bond novel organizations. And no stone will be left unturned in the ongoing smear campaigns to hobble the President. Just think - if Clinton had NOT been wrapped up in personal crap and accused of "Wag the Dog" - what MIGHT he have done w/respect to the Cole, etc.? We'll never know, but all that Ken Starr hounding sure didn't enhance his effectiveness.
Our only chance is NOT "just" to win the White House but to also achieve overwhelming majorities in both houses of congress
and even replace some of the existing dems with more progressive ones, less tied to the Machine.
It is pathetically naive to think that just getting either of the remaining dem candidates into the WH will have a significant effect. Oh, it will require Them to go to Plan B again, to be sure, and that will be good, because Plan A is to stick grandpa in the WH and just turn the whole damned country (and soon the world) over to Richard Bruce Cheney. But Plan B will go forward quite successfully if we don't understand what has happened and is happening, and actually come to grips with it.
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHICH CURRENT DEM CANDIDATE IS ELECTED if the bigger picture is not addressed. You are all screaming and shouting to get your candidate to be the next sacrifical lamb! Waste of fucking time and energy. Too stubborn on both sides to call it a draw and turn to face the enemy. A pox on both their houses! They are playing into cheney's hands.
Personally, I welcome the continuing silence from some very knowledgeable people like Gore, Biden, Dodd, Edwards, and hope that they have backchannel communications with each other, the joint chiefs, other world leaders...
Some of them may need to be our next set of Founding Fathers.
Cheney is building a home in Virginia, near CIA headquarters.
http://wonkette.com/363302/cheneys-new-house-is-cia-adjacentSurprisingly close to neighbors on a lot of just under an acre. Of course there is no telling whether the neighboring houses will retain their current ownership, or perhaps be taken over by staff, making the entire street a HQ compound...