With the exception of John Edwards and Denis Kucinich on the left and Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul on the right, all of the candidates are avoiding reality and lying to the public with glib promises of economic resurrection on the left, false assurances on the right, both sides making misleading and often outrageous statements that ignore why, where, and when our Republic went down the tubes, none of them denouncing the two parties that orchestrated our global collapse.  We need Electoral Reform when Congress returns in January 2008, or we should impeach every one of them.

Hillary Clinton had the full force of the Presidency behind her when she tried to enact health reform, and she failed so completely that her ability to lead anything nation-wide in scope is simply not credible.

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are creatures of the Democratic Party, both have very strong support from major financial, industrial, pharmaceutical, and insurance interests, and neither can be trusted to actually lead change that includes the necessary decapitation of the Democracy Party.  Simply looking at their advisors—Albright who ignored and suppressed alarms over terrorism with Clinton, Brzezinski who gave Pakistan the Sunni nuclear bomb with Obama, tells us all we need to know: neither of these two candidates is breaking with “the system” that Peter Peterson dissects in his superb book, Running On Empty: How The Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It. 

The cancelling of delegates from states moving their primaries is an outrage, and confirms what we learned when the two parties displaced the League of Women Voters in managing the presidential debates.  The League wanted to ask questions not provided in advance, and they wanted to include third, fourth, and fifth candidates.  The two parties, in or out of power, are trying desperately to save a two-party spoils system that excludes reality, integrity, and alternative parties such as the Independents, Libertarians, Greens, Reforms, and others.

Peterson is right: both these parties, the “bi-partisan” spoils system, have become so corrupt and arrogant and inept that we must, as Lou Dobbs urges, announce our Independence.

The Republicans are equally deceptive.  John McCain is a good man, but he abdicated his Article 1 responsibilities and “went along” with Dick Cheney’s twenty-five documented high crimes (see my review of VICE: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Empire).  McCain also decided not to fight for the 1,000 or so Prisoners of War “left behind” in Viet-Nam because their ransom cost was considered to be “exorbitant.”  Romney is a slick Mormon deceptive about his religion’s dominance of his life—at the CIA, Mormon officers would fall asleep at their desks after working all night for the Mormons.  Guliani is despised by the firefighters of New York City, for he desecrated the bodies of those who died in his rush to destroy the crime scene in connivance with Larry Silverstein, the insurance companies, and Dick Cheney.  Guiliani , known by firefighters nation-wide as “Scoop and Dump,” will be indicted one day, and the truth will be public.

Our Republic is no longer a Republic, and we are not only facing a cataclysmic economic meltdown beginning in March and culminating in a near-depression of at least two years duration, for three simple reasons:

1.    The White House and Congress, managed by the two parties, has consistently betrayed the public trust and voted for special interests.  All our existing problems could have been avoided had we had ethical leadership the past twenty-five years.  Clinton created the climate of foreign neglect that allowed terrorism to flourish, Cheney led a global foreign policy that increased failed states (whose problems come home to us) from 75 in 2005 to 177 today.

2.    Wall Street, and specifically Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Citi-Bank, and Mellon Bank, have been playing roulette with the American economy, and each time they have lost, they have been bailed out by We the People without our consent.  At that level of play, both Democratic and Republican Secretaries of the Treasury have betrayed the public trust to the point that the Comptroller General recently informed Congress that the US is insolvent.

3.    Finally, We the People stood idly by as Dick Cheney orchestrated an illegal elective war justified on a web of lies.  For what we have spent in Iraq we could have completely refurbished our national infrastructure and educational system from Headstart to lower college costs, assured water and food security, and re-energized the economy with investments in research, development, and new forms of human full employed.
Any candidate that offers “programs” without a transpartisan balanced budget to back it up, is a liar, plain and simple.