The presidential primary is out of loop no quesion about it as are some candidates

[merrill]

Is this any way to pick a presidential candidate for any party? I think not.

The majority of states are left out of the process. How is that legitimate?

Is Iowa out of the loop? Yes

Is the entire system out of the loop? Yes

There is no substance to this primary only lip service. There is no plan for:

Jobs jobs jobs

affordable health insurance

new industry

cutting the pork barrel defense budget by 50%

shutting down 50% of US military operations abroad

clean air/clean water/phasing out nuke and coal power

 

[merrill]

A year from now, Americans will be caught in an unprecedented blizzard of campaign ads.

Most of this ad blizzard will not come from the candidates, but from ads secretly-funded by huge corporations. This is because a five-man cabal on the Supreme Court issued an edict that perverts nature itself.

In a case titled Citizens United, the five decreed that – shazam! – lifeless corporate elites are henceforth "persons" with more electioneering rights than us real life persons. In a black-robed coup against our democracy, the Supremes ruled that a corporation's money is "speech" and that CEOs may dump unlimited sums of it into their own ad campaigns to elect or defeat any candidates they choose.

Of course, it's a grotesque, Kafkaesque lie to say that Wal-Mart, Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, and the rest are people with political rights equal to – much less superior to – human beings. As a friend of mine puts it: "A corporation is not a person until Texas executes one!"

The good news is that real citizens of our country are united against Citizens United. In a January Hart Research poll, 87 percent of Democrats, 82 percent of Independents, and even 68 percent of Republicans favor passing a Constitutional amendment to overule the Court's bizarre decision and make clear that only people are people.

Sadly (though not surprisingly) our national elected officials – including Republicans, Democrats and tea partiers – are too hooked on corporate money to stand up for us... for America's democracy. So, do we just have to surrender to the corporados? Of course not – we're Americans!

Rebel! A new "We the People Campaign" is rallying grassroots folks to sign a "Declaration of Independence From Corporate Power." To sign the declaration and join the action, go to .WeThePeopleCampaign.org.

"The Hightower Lowdown," Hightower Lowdown, October 2011.

 

[candycorn]

The presidential primary is out of loop no quesion about it as are some candidates

The same with you.....what the fuck is "out of loop" supposed to mean?????

What.....you feel some need to be recognized as some kind o' creator of a nonsensical-phrase.....or, are you merely handicapped with an Elementary School education, and your post was some kind o' entrance-exercise for Teabaggerdom???​

And technically, what he is referring to is the Republican Primary, not the Presidential Primary of which there isn't one.

 

[merrill]

This process stinks which encourages obscene wasteful spending and miles upon miles upon miles of misinformation.