Why do americans fall over themselves over incumbent political stars and fat cats ?

[merrill]

Why do americans fall over themselves over incumbent political media stars and fat cats? Have we not learned that these people NEVER make things better they just continue the corporate welfare and watch american jobs go abroad. It really stinks!

STOP sending the same faces back to Washington it is doing none of us any good.

The parties, news media and corporate america decide who OUR candidates should be for local,state or federal level representation. Why do we allow them to decide considering there are billions more of us?

The media has become a large part of the special interest takeover of our process as if they know what is best for all of us.

Voters support this takeover by voting for those candidates who spend the most money and the question is why?

The media loves those big campaign dollars = voters should not worship the big spenders

 

[merrill]

Campaigns go too long,spend way too much money and do not necessarily provide the best available.

It is up to us to stop the nonsense at the voting booths.

Replace 95% of all elected officials every 4 years for the house and every 6 years for the Senate.

Not voting sends the wrong message and changes nothing.

One big problem is there are damn few if any republicans running for office. That's right the traditional fiscal conservative/socially responsible republican is missing not to mention
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[Mac1958]

Nothing of lasting substance gets fixed until we have strict term limits. These thugs spend more time fundraising, campaigning and selling out than they do legislating, and we let them get away with it. Then we bemoan the fact that America is in decay.

This is a self-inflicted wound. Fix the system, or the decay continues.

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[merrill]

Term Limits come by way of not returning the same faces. That's right voters can do on their own. Term limit legislation would likely be loaded with loop holes.

Let's do it on our own. Ralph Nader campaigns for replacing 90% of incumbents each voting cycle. Personally why not 95%?

 

[merrill]

Corporations and developers do not save money for taxpayers or big government.

TOO many corporations want to privatize our states. Yet it is the corporations that are responsible for fraud against government and OUR tax dollars.

For example:
"Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You with the Bill)"

UUA: A Voice of Economic Populism

The trouble with elected officials they go to the CEO"s of any industry and developers for advice too often!!!! Then the elected officials walk away still uninformed.

One answer to our political problems : CUT OFF special interest financing of elections! YES even at the local level.

 

[merrill]

One answer to our political problems : CUT OFF special interest financing of elections! YES even at the local level.

Our government is always claiming the USA is about democracy. In that case allow the citizens to practice democracy by allowing citizens to vote on these issues in 2012:

Let's demand a new system and vote in Fair Vote America : FairVote.org | Instant Runoff Voting
Demand a change on the next ballot.

Let's have public financing of campaigns. Citizens cannot afford special interest money campaigns for it is the citizens that get left out. Let citizens vote on this issue.
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Bribery of elected officials and bribed officials = the most stinky of all bribery!

Day in and day out our elected officials spend hours each day campaigning for campaign dollars. When they take time out to make a speech and/or attend luncheons etc etc etc this is campaigning for money. Let's not pretend only the presidential race is on the clock 24/7.

 

[Full-Auto]

Why do americans fall over themselves over incumbent political media stars and fat cats? Have we not learned that these people NEVER make things better they just continue the corporate welfare and watch american jobs go abroad. It really stinks!

STOP sending the same faces back to Washington it is doing none of us any good.

The parties, news media and corporate america decide who OUR candidates should be for local,state or federal level representation. Why do we allow them to decide considering there are billions more of us?

The media has become a large part of the special interest takeover of our process as if they know what is best for all of us.

Voters support this takeover by voting for those candidates who spend the most money and the question is why?

The media loves those big campaign dollars = voters should not worship the big spenders

Yes why do you?

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

All this coming from someone who fell for "Hope and Change"?

 

[merrill]

The incumbents and fat cats have little knowledge on how people are living in the real world.

These people enter office out of touch and go through life uniformed.

 

[merrill]

All this coming from someone who fell for "Hope and Change"?

I did not vote Obama. He is out of touch.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

All this coming from someone who fell for "Hope and Change"?

I did not vote Obama. He is out of touch.

So, you voted McCain?

 

[merrill]

All this coming from someone who fell for "Hope and Change"?

I did not vote Obama. He is out of touch.

So, you voted McCain?

You must be out of your mind. That guy cannot remember how many homes he owns so he to is wayyyyyyyyyy out of touch.

 

[editec]

Why do americans fall over themselves over incumbent political stars and fat cats ?

Why do so many people SUCK UP TO POWER?

Seriously, you don't already know why people do that?

Seriously?

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

I did not vote Obama. He is out of touch.

So, you voted McCain?

You must be out of your mind. That guy cannot remember how many homes he owns so he to is wayyyyyyyyyy out of touch.

Wait, there were basically only two guys on the ballot in 2008.

 

[merrill]

So, you voted McCain?

You must be out of your mind. That guy cannot remember how many homes he owns so he to is wayyyyyyyyyy out of touch.

Wait, there were basically only two guys on the ballot in 2008.

You were not paying attention. You must buy into the notion that party leaders and the media know what is best for us thereby making our choices for us.

Where are the women candidates?

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

You must be out of your mind. That guy cannot remember how many homes he owns so he to is wayyyyyyyyyy out of touch.

Wait, there were basically only two guys on the ballot in 2008.

You were not paying attention. You must buy into the notion that party leaders and the media know what is best for us thereby making our choices for us.

Where are the women candidates?

McKinney ran in 2008... please tell me you didn't vote for this moonbat... or Barr or Nader.

 

[Douger]

OMG ! OMG ! Britney has three nipples !!! Wheeeeeeeeeeee.

 

[Douger]

Anything to avoid reality.
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[merrill]

Ralph Nader wants a primary challenge for President Obama

* "I don't have an ax to grind here," Ralph Nader said of his push for a Democratic primary challenger. "I'm not maneuvering for anything. I'm not a registered Democrat. I just want, as a citizen, to have a rigorous debate on all the matters we've worked on for decades: consumers affairs, environmental protection, new taxes, new ideas, new excitement."

"I don't have an ax to grind here," Ralph Nader said of his… (AP Photo / NBC)
September 19, 2011|By Mark Z. Barabak

Ralph Nader -- legendary consumer advocate, accused spoiler in the 2000 presidential campaign -- is not, to state it mildly, terribly popular among Democrats, who still hold the election of George W. Bush against him.

So the idea, announced Monday, that he is seeking to recruit a slate of liberal stalwarts to mount a primary challenge against President Obama in 2012 is likely to elicit a response -- at least among some in the party -- ranging somewhere between eye-rolling and teeth-gnashing.

Nader seems not terribly concerned. His response to the 2000 controversy (a tie in Florida, hanging chads, a 5-4 Supreme Court decision stopping the recount and putting Bush in the White House) was to run for president again in 2004 and 2008.

Still, Nader insists the purpose of his latest electoral effort is not to deny Obama the Democratic nomination, or undermine his chances in the general election against whomever the Republicans put up against the president.

"Just the opposite," Nader said, speaking via telephone from Washington shortly after the recruitment effort was made public. "If [Obama's] smart, he'll welcome it, because nothing's worse than an incumbent president slipping in the polls, being constantly on the defensive, being accused by supporters of having no backbone and running an unenthusiastically received campaign. That's a prescription for defeat.

"He's got a lack of enthusiasm with his base," Nader continued. "If he goes through a one-year presidential campaign with mind-numbing repetition, responding to crazed Republican positions, he is not going to activate his base. He will be put on the defensive, just the way he is now."

To launch their insurgency effort, Nader and his allies released a scathing "Dear Colleague" letter sent to more than 150 potential sympathizers, accusing Obama of turning his back on his liberal base and its progressive agenda.

Ralph Nader wants a primary challenge for President Obama - Los Angeles Times

 

[BlindBoo]

Because they are conditioned to do so.