Neither Obama nor Hillary have any concept that, unless we become energy independent ASAP, we'll be bogged down in endless wars over oil and pipelines, where the poor U.S. mercenaries enticed from the poor neighborhoods of America will kill foreigners for oil. They both endlessly praise the military. Neither seems to know that between 51% -62% of the national budget goes for past, present and future wars (figure in interest on the national debt, veteran's benefits, etc). They don't get it that the framers favored a militia as the backbone of democracy and deeply feared a standing army. The framers intent and profound interest in freedom led them to conclude that the military should be under civilian control. In their speeches both candidates never make it clear that the President Is Commander In Chief of the armed forces, not the population as a whole. (George Bush is not my commander in chief, I'm not in the military.) Both Obama and Hillary pander to the worst militaristic instincts of the American people. They will not speak the truth that the dead and maimed have died for nothing, that it is not sweet and fitting for one to die in needless, illegal, immoral wars. Neither candidate seems to know that our army of poor mercenaries, coming from the ghettos and barrios to become trained killers and deployed to the 700 military bases the U.S. maintains abroad and often must act as stooges to do the bidding in the failing American Empire. Neither candidate will cut off funding to stop the genocidal slaughter in Iraq. If you include the U.S. led embargo by Bill Clinton, at least 2 million Iraqi civilians have died as the result of our interference in a sovereign nation. What a disgrace to a self-styled moral people!

Neither emphasizes nor knows that the framers of the constitution feared empire and knew it swallows up a Republic. Neither emphasis that the framers wanted a rule of law, not a rule of men. While Obama occasionally mentions torture, he does not at all speak with passion and understanding that we have become an outlaw nation, a torture republic disgraced in the eyes of the moral parts of the world. They do not say that the traitor George Bush has bent the common law to his will and is a tyrant who sees himself above the law. Neither one speaks of the dangers of theocracy where evil rulers do so in the name of god -- evil rulers such as George Bush, Darius I, Caligula and Nero. Instead they pander to the ignorant religious in America. Too, these candidates never clearly, forcefully state and affirm that the right of conscience, freedom of speech, thought and action are consistently being trampled upon by FISA courts, the NSA, secret intelligence agencies, the FBI and the military.

Neither forcefully speaks to the truth that the U.S. infrastructure is in a state of collapse and that only an abandonment of U.S. imperial ambitions will free up the necessary monies tp rebuild our country. Under these kinds of democrats all America will eventually resemble New Orleans, as we become a third world country owned by other nations and private investors.

Neither speaks the harsh truth of what we must do to lead the world from the precipice of destruction caused by climate change. The human race will exterminate itself without radical changes in consumption of carbon. The American people must be prepared to radically alter their standards of living to save the planet. We do not hear these truths from these candidates.

And , even though George W. Bush has assumed dictatorial powers by use of finding statements, lying us into a War, refusing to enforce laws passed by congress, has authorized torture, has suspended parts of the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th amendment to the U.S. constitution. as , in effect stated, as did the Sun King Louis, "The State Is Me," and offers us a new version of the Divine Right Of Kings (the clown-in-chief actually says he's guided by God!!), neither candidate will call for his impeachment.

A plague on both the houses of Clinton and Obama. Where are the Paul Wellstones of this country? Where is Martin Luther King, Jr. Where is Abraham Lincoln? Where are the profiles in courage? Gone. Gone to their graves. What a time! What morality ! Oh tempora, oh mores! What a sad spectacle we face: A parade of the horribles from the Republicans and shallow incompetents from the Democrats.







































A plague on both their houses.