GUEST,Guest from Sanity , It's remarkable that you should be quoting an article from the Washington Times, a Moonie newspaper.

I argue that the premise of this thread is correct and that we don't have true Capitalism any more, we have Corporatism whereby market competition is squelched by an Oligarchy.

We have given too much power to the Pentagon to make important national decisions as as it become more Christianized, it becomes a bigger out-of-control behemoth.

Obama's election was not about Camelot, an appraisal developed later in the JFK administration but was about the momentous proposition that a black man could be elected president in the US. It seems to me from the reading I've done that every presidential election comes in with expectant euphoric baggage that is later dissolved by the presentation of realistic problems.

Voting for Obama really is not the end game, only grass roots activism can achieve meaningful change in the system.