Under our system any president is a stooge of the great financial forces that own or govern the country.
Gore Vidal
War is all that they know and all that they care about, because through the demonizing of this or that enemy they can keep the money flowing to them--while depriving the people at large of all those things that other First World people possess--from schools to health care.
Gore Vidal
Democracy:
It used to be the best government that money could
BUY.
The 2008 presidential election is projected to cost about $2,000,000,000,000.
That’s right.
TWO TRILLION DOLLARS!
Will Barack Obama win because he has more money?
Or will computerized voting machines decide?
Or the Supreme Court?
Or some other unknown force?
I wonder how much money Americans will spend to gamble on who will be the next president?
Maybe candidates should go on TV and play Jeopardy.
No more debates.
No more speeches.
Just give correct answers to the questions, dammit!
Give them difficult questions on foreign policy, history, literature, philosophy, geography etc.
It will be O.K. to include a few trivia questions.
Let the voting public see which candidate knows the most.
Who is the smartest candidate?
He should be the next president.
Use all of the candidates’ campaign money to fund immediate development of solar-powered machines and energy that will be generated by the wind and water.
Then the Arabs can drink their oil!
IT’S THE OIL STUPID!
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