One of the most macabre images that has ever visited my sick mind is that of Albert Einstein being worked to death in a German concentration camp. Of course things like that could never happen here.

Hillary: the ultimate corporate candidate, she is made by corporate power and her health plan is made by the insurance companies. The only different between Hillary and a GOP prez is the velocity their knees will reach the floor when confronted by corporate power and their representative. Much the same goes for …

Obama: Nice guy, but very general in his rhetoric. At this point he probably is my pick — though as said above, he will largely be business as usual.

These two are being nicely financed over the other DLC candidates because they have vulnerabilities. The GOP can launch a pure hate campaign against Hillary. Obama simply will never garner many voters in the southern red states — sorry, but your average rednecked southern white man is just not likely to go for a black guy.

So the manipulted electoral system is set up to create a greater likelyhood that the GOP wins again! It might happen. So there we have:

McCain: Will the real McCain please stand up! Frankly this guy’s stances on things are mercurial and shift with the winds. One might worry that the GW Bush global militarism program will be continued under McCain.

Romney: A vestige of what once were called liberal Republicans.

Huckabee: Well if this guy manages to become Prez, anyone with an IQ above 120 and any interest in science will be getting that exit visa in order. I think his chances are minimal — fortunately. I can’t live in a nation run by Huckleberry Hound.

Lawrence B. Crowell

“Obama’s mantra of bringing everyone together may appeal to the naïve illusions of youth who are making their first political experiences, but Obama and the Wall Street bankers and media moguls who are promoting him know exactly what they are doing. Theirs is a conscious policy of blurring social and political differences and denying class divisions in a society more deeply divided along economic lines than ever before in its history.”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/obam-f04.shtml

I think the Romney support is a result of the Republican establishment- particularly those who have a financial interest in promoting red-dog conservatism- has been supporting Romney as an “anyone who isn’t Huckabee or McCain” candidate.

While a democratic president would set their agendas back, it would be good for business, and they would have somebody to fulminate against.

Huckabee, a evangelical who actually believes in 1 Timothy 6:10, is the most dire thread to those who get rich stoking the fires of neoconservative ire. But McCain’s anti-corruption activities have made him a threat as well.

Romney has a record as a moderate yankee, but he at least seems to be pliant enough to be less threatening than the other two. He may not be getting heaps of support, but he seem to be attacked less than Huckabee and McCain.

I would never argue that McCain is a ‘pure’ ideologue - obviously he isn’t cut from the Neocon cloth. However McCain has been what I would term “ideologue-of-convenience” - he doesn’t shy away from getting on-board with policies that I think are disastrous for America and its relations with the rest of the world, if it suits him at any given point-in-time.

When he was playing the role of broker, he had the rare advantage of being able to present himself in the media as the reasonable man, and indeed I do think that John McCain has a reasonable side to him. But there is also another side to McCain and that will become clear if he is handed the levers of power. Recently for example he spoke about “more wars to come”.

McCain is a man who has done honorable service for America and who suffered personally in the course of it. On many levels he’s a fine human being. But he doesn’t bring the type of energy and vision with him that will create momentum in a new direction, and although age doesn’t of necessity have to define a person, he is in the later period of his life and his view of America is heavily conditioned by the past.

I believe Barack Obama holds the greatest potential for renewal and a new vision that unifies as it inspires, while also opening the door to a new relationship with the world.

Really. He supported the surge, and has been known to back positions that aren’t exactly in sync with the “intellectual crowd” - whoever they happen to be.

Wasn’t it McCain who went cap-in-hand to try and get back in the good books of Jerry Falwell?

This McCain revisionism that is suddenly in vogue is bizarre. Vote McCain into the big house and I guarantee that when push comes to shove he will be just as divisive and controversial as Bush has been.