They all keep talking about change.
Our country needs substantive change both in terms of foreign policy and domestic economic policy if we hope to maintain the republic for our children and grand-children. Noted scholars and other experts including Chalmers Johnson have postulated our republic has already irreversibly transformed itself into an empire, supported and promoted through our military industrial complex, which can only be overturned through violent revolution. I truly hope this is not the case, but I do believe we need to make a drastic change and make it soon.
Much as I would like to see our first woman President or our first African-American President I don’t believe Senators Clinton and Obama have a platform which recognizes these fundamental flaws. They are both truly remarkable people and certainly anything is better than President Bush and the Bush Doctrine. However in the end their public voting records and campaign platforms are indicative of a further continuation of the military industrial complex and ultimately an end to the republic as we know it.
One candidate has a 20 year voting record and a campaign platform focused on returning our country to its constitutional principles. His name is Dr. Ron Paul.
You might not agree 100% with all his positions but his platform of stict constitutionalism is something that can unite us all. Follow the constitution, give the power back to the States, close the over-seas bases, stop policing the word, reduce spending and return to a sane fiscal policy. We might have different religions, economic backgrounds, educations and radically different lifestyles however we can all live and prosper by following one of the most significant and liberating documents ever conceived and ratified by a free people… the US Constitution. Without it, well you are seeing the result.
Please study and learn the issues before sound bites and more of the same political inaction further damage our republic beyond repair.
Google any of these:
José Padilla, admittedly a bad dude but a U.S. Citizen none the less, denied due process for 4 years!! By our government… you.
Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006
Public Law 109-364, or the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007
No big deal that habeas corpus thing.
Did you know the Federal Reserve was a private organization paying member firms dividends? Do you know how inflation is really caused and who it really helps?
U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8