if any of you believe you are electing YOUR candidate, you are delusional.

First they didn't cover Kucinich and then made sure he did not participate in debates... the media, yes the media had a great role in him not gaining any traction.

Now Edwards is droping out after the media telling us he is not viable for literally months and not really covering him either. He didn't gain any traction either... no face time, no traction.

This is going to be a historic election. Not only are we going to have the first woman or african american, but fully the first media made candidate. And the sad part is that many here on DU are going rah rah... the process is broken... to the point that YOU do not get to hear the candidates unless they are media (and corporation) approved

Sad.

Will many things change in DC if either of these two gets elected? Sadly, not really. Read Paul Krugman on the subject, and both their economic policies. Will they be slightly better than the Loons the republicans are running? Yes, but the empire will chug along just fine, as well as our descent into fascism. Of course History is a bitch, and if things get as bad as they did in 1930... well guess what? They either dust off keynes and the new deal, or they will be remembered as disasters. (And there is a good chance that things WILL turn out that badly)... so gloat around... your media created candidate is indeed the last man or woman standing.. as for me, I will vote... why? I will make them steal my vote. Nothing to do with citizen's duty or any of that crap. But hope is completely gone... that the system could even work. It does not... period. And I expect the media to pull the same crap in 2012, oh and I expect the media to further consolidate... after all five people owning all we watch and think and read is not enough... we need to get this down to at least three. And these two "candidates" will gladly help. After all, they owe quite a bit of their ambition to a broken media system that makes sure they get what they need. Oh and call me crazy, but they want HRC... after all with her back in the White House, you can COUNT on a scandal ridden administration, that WILL be investigated and probably impeached. After all, her crime being a woman and a Clinton.

Rant off...

Politics, smhelitics... Cicero was right... and he wrote about the Roman Republic and its failure! We are now witnessing the failure of the American Republic... so go ahead, rah, rah, rah..