Still Time to reconsider...

You can either cut to the chase and vote for Nader; or you can beat around the bush (or Bush?) and assure yourself that if your top issues are: War in Iraq (and a military based foreign policy), Universal Health Care, Corporation corruption (which means protecting the corporate elite assets), that your concerns won't be addressed with Obama.

If the above statement seems to be too far 'left' to support, then you are rightfully voting for Obama. But if you believe in the importance of those concerns, then this could be the year that you stop giving your tacit support to the corporate democratic party.

It seems that a fundamental shift in social consciousness may not happen this year, but it could with your vote. All it means is that if you have disdain Clinton and Bush, a path to consider is NOT voting for the lesser of two evils, and vote for a third Party candidate.

You need to remove your power that you are giving to the corporate elite every time you are voting for the lesser of two evils.

Give money to Nader, Cynthia McKinney, Cindy Sheehan. Show your support with your money.

www.voteNader.org

Third Party Debate Sunday October 23rd - Update

NEWS Flash: Third Party Debate

UPDATE - The Debate was rescheduled to Thursday, October 23rd.

The Free and Equal Elections Coalition (FREE) and the Columbia Political Union are pleased to announce that a Presidential debate (originally scheduled Sunday, October 19th, 2008) will be held October 23rd. Details will be announced Tuesday, October 21.

ALL SIX of the Presidential candidates who appear on enough state ballots to acquire the 270 Electoral Votes needed to become President are invited. They are as follows (listed in alphabetical order by affiliation):

Constitution Party Candidate: Chuck Baldwin

Democratic Party Candidate: Barack Obama

Green Party Candidate: Cynthia McKinney

Independent Candidate: Ralph Nader

Libertarian Party Candidate: Bob Barr

Republican Party Can John McCain

More info at: http://www.freeandequal.org

America’s Political Cannibalism

By Chris Hedges

It is no longer our economy but our democracy that is in peril. It was the economic meltdown of Yugoslavia that gave us Slobodan Milosevic. It was the collapse of the Weimar Republic that vomited up Adolf Hitler. And it was the breakdown in czarist Russia that opened the door for Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Financial collapses lead to political extremism. The rage bubbling up from our impoverished and disenfranchised working class, glimpsed at John McCain rallies, presages a looming and dangerous right-wing backlash.

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This is a defining moment in American history. The next few weeks and months will see us stabilize and weather this crisis or descend into a terrifying dystopia. I place no hope in Obama or the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is a pathetic example of liberal, bourgeois impotence, hypocrisy and complacency. It has been bought off. I will vote, if only as a form of protest against our corporate state and an homage to Polanyi’s brilliance, for Ralph Nader. I would like to offer hope, but it is more important to be a realist. No ethic or act of resistance is worth anything if it is not based on the real. And the real, I am afraid, does not look good.

The complete article is a must read if you find the mainstream corporate candidates unpalatable. To read the whole article go to: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081013_americas_political_cannibalism/

Hey, at least 'they' allow someone to say the truth as he sees it, and it gets read by at least a small group of people who are on their path of social enlightenment. And exactly how many of you who agree with Hedges on the issues took notice that he stated he's voting for Nader.