..and moreover, I think he should choose Aaron Mcgruder as a VP running mate. They would get my vote - hell, I'd vote twice for them if I could. Or perhaps, we could contract with the same company that built the republican's voting machines for Ohio and ship them out to the rest of the country paying them to fix the machines our way....
Anyway Here's another slice from West's book (ISBN: 1594200297):
Page 35 - The Democratic Party elites are too often unwilling to tell the American people just how connected they and their Republican colleagues are to powerful corportions and influential lobbyists. Their caving in to Bush's Iraq war, and their support for the loosening of regulations on corporations that led to the recent wave of scandals, are two blatent examples. In these legislative votes, most Democrats failed to follow their conscience, following instead the polls and their reelection strategies...the vast majority of Democratic Party elites are rendered impotent by their timidity and paralyzed by their cupidity (their courting of corporate donors). Their unprincipled compromises reinforce the idea that corporate influence and lobbyists' clout run the U.S. government.
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''Every citizen of this country who is registered to vote should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth of their community, their vote has as much weight as the vote of any Senator, any Congressperson, any President, any cabinet member, or any CEO of any Fortune 500 Corporation.'' - US Sen. Barbara Boxer
''The Democratic Party elites are too often unwilling to tell the American people just how connected they and their Republican colleagues are to powerful corporations and influential lobbyists.'' - West
Wrong. And wrong.The gov't has been hijacked by the pols through gerrymandered apportionment. There's virtually no turnover of incumbents. That's because all voting districts are ''safe.'' (The way the pols like it.) The decision about Who Will Win The Vote is made at the primary level, not in the general election. The most powerful influence on gov't is, unsurprisingly (if you think about it), politicians.
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