time to go...

[democrank]

1. I`m sitting here in the woods of Vermont feeling a giant disconnect.

Our candidate raised $45,000,000. Oh yeah, well our candidate raised $150,000,000 and when the next report comes out, he`ll have raised $43,772,894,623, 941. Beat that!.

Haul in the most cash, hire handlers and image-makers and focus group your words to death. Next step? Move left with this group, move right with that group, jump to the center with the next group. What is that crap? Can`t our candidates just stand for what they stand for? Oh, wait. When they do, they`re "fringe" because they aren`t Corporate-Headquarter-Approved. They`re dangerous. Never know what they might do....like shame some money out of the Cayman Islands and reroute it to Owsley County, Kentucky or Aroostook County, Maine.

And this profit sharing thing. What kind of nonsense answer is that for some 57-year old keeping warm over a city grate? Or for the New Hampshire kid walking past the closed-down paper mill in his hand-me-down shoes he can`t afford to buy shoelaces for? There are children out there who literally have no food. There are people out there who literally have no hope.

These times and these problems demand a brand new vision, not more of the same.