The only 2 presidential candidate possibilities whose word I trust are Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul. Period. They've both stood up consistently against American's foreign wars.

Republican audiences in 2008 laughed nervously when Ron Paul said in the televised debates that the reasons Muslims are fighting the USA is NOT because they hate our democracy or our culture, but because we are in their lands with our military and interfering in their lives. Dead right. The audience laughed because it scares them deeply to hear a simple truth like that, and their reaction is to deny it out of hand and poke fun at it.

Kucinich was blocked from even participating in the last few televised Democratic all-candidates' debates, because his position on the wars and various other issues left the rest of them in the dust and made them look like phonies and hypocrites...which they are, in my opinion. So they removed him from the process.

If it ain't seen on mainstream media, then it's almost as if it doesn't exist. That is how the corporate-owned media achieves "consent" from the public.

Okay, so they've given you the feelgood supposed triumph of electing "a black man" (Make that half-black....but even a 10th black is still considered "black" in America, right? Any amount will do.)   Well, gosh! What rabbit will they pull out of the corporate hat next time?

I'm thinking that it would look absolutely fabulous to elect a female president soon. Very progressive....even if she is just a shill for the corporate agenda. Maybe that will be the next glorious gambit to restore "hope". In any case, they will analyze hard what is most marketable in 2012, based on the public mood, and they'll trot out a candidate who fits that mood, market that candidate like mad, make sure the media does its job sewing discord, hatred, fear, gossip, paranoia, and utter nonsense about foreign lands, and The Great Oz will roll on majestically to another 4 years of imperial lunacy and fiscal madness.

And the world will watch it all...and shudder.

This sort of thing has happened before. The Romans did it. And they got away with it for a much longer period of time than America is going to...but things moved a lot slower then.