NOT the issue

[Mythsaje]

Electability?

I think any of our candidates, given the opportunity, could trounce the crap out of any of the Republican hopefuls. They're a bunch of grumpy old men, religious psychos, or lying bastards. Not one of them has enough personality to get through the "Republicans are corrupt scumbags" meme that is flowing through the general populace despite the MSM's misdirection.

Electability is not the issue.

No, the issue is, as I've said, whether or not the candidate is willing and able to take on the perpetrators of the top-down Class Warfare that's being levied against the American middle-class and working poor. The Class Warfare that is part and parcel of rampant outsourcing of vital manufacturing jobs, growing trade deficits that are currently aiding in the decline of the dollar on the world market, unwavering support for the oil companies and erstwhile allies in oil-producing nations, ever-increasing tuition rates and immense student aid debt holding down anyone seeking a career that pays over 30,000 a year, skyrocketing healthcare costs and a lack of serious intent on the part of corporate America to ease the burden of their employees, the housing bubble, the credit crisis, and a host of other free trade and economic issues that are destroying the American dream for so many citizens currently riding the edge of solvency.

The "War On Terror," in all its current incarnations is another card in the three-card monte game they're playing with us--trying to keep us distracted from the REAL war going on right now.
It's also another symptom of the game that's being played--the one that makes the rich (in the case the war-profiteers of all different varieties) even richer.

And the corporate media is understandably complicit.

It's the Class War.

It's the Class War.

It's the Class War.

And any candidate not saying it is on the WRONG GODDAMN SIDE. The currently winning side.



edited to fix a typo

[hootinholler]

1. Kicking for the 5th...

There's one candidate that's actually lived being poor in the US.

-Hoot

[eridani]

2. That would be Kucinich, right? n/t