Are We Going To Let Them Steal The Presidency Again?

I wonder if the public could actually press lawsuits against news organizations for not acknowledging presidential candidates and other material that the public would and does consider newsworthy...

I don't know? Under the old broadcasting laws, I'm sure you could. Those laws are gone now. We are seeing why they should be reinstated. We are being indoctrinated. The powers that be think there is a good chance they can beat a black man, or a woman. They know they haven't a chance to beat Edwards.

Corporate Media. They will not do anything to help anyone but the big fat lobbying old boys and girls. Why? It will hurt their profits. Just imagine, it has been 6 years our San Francisco Transportation old club is violating our acoustic rights in the City with that horrendous bus and no media came along to cover it. It is just a big cover up and that machine keeps going and going and the money keeps rolling and rolling. Now just look the people that also are not doing anything to stop it. Our City become a mental institution already with androids going down to the Financial District to work happy every after. Everybody's blind, everybody's deaf and the accidents keep rising.

Whoever you are out there, could you just wake da hell up from this "dangerous do nothing trance" and do something please?

Writing right here is doing something - it's a start.

Be vocal. Talk to you're friends. Express yourself.

I am amazed at how many people feel as we do here. Keep talking.

Absolutely! Comment on every blog, email the news stations, Huffington Post, Michael Moore and whomever else you can think of. I'm that convinced John Edwards is the individual we need in office to start kicking out corporate influence from our laws. Let's all make some noise - - we're probably all guilty of apathy over the years on various issues and look what's been done while we weren't looking! (At least I'm speaking for myself.)

And Me. Anyone with any ideas?

The democratic party better wake up and get behind this guy or were going to have a big mess on top of the big mess we already have. It's amazing to me how much everyone supported Edwards 4 years ago and now they have turned their backs on him. Everyone is so wrapped up in the Clinton/Obama popularity contest that they are missing the solution to the problem. I don't want to live in a country where whoever has the most money and sexiest tv commercials can be president. Give Edwards fair time! This guy is a pit bull who will fight to his last dying breath to make this country great again.

I agree, however, I'm not sure "everyone" has turned their backs on John - I think because the media is presenting Clinton and Obama as the only viable candidates, those that have voted in the caucases so far are going along with the status quo thinking they'll waste their vote. If his platform were presented fairly I'm sure that would change. I'm in the process of sending emails to media and web sites I visit with a message of giving John Edwards the coverage he deserves. He is still a viable candidate whose vision for change in this country is right on target. Hope many of you join us!

Hey Chique,
You're right not everyone has turned their back on him but just this morning John Kerry DID. I support Edwards and will vote for him. Thank you for doing your part in getting the word out there.
Best,
John Tague

mm you got me wondering about edwards ive been kinda feelin dennis kuccinich because of hr 333
but edwards does seem to be facing an ever more blatant black balling which makes me strongly suspect that he may truly be what is best for our nation ... keep talkin... my wife was 100% convinced by you and this clip btw

somefamilylove, I think you already have it figured out. I like Kucinich too. I think he is an honest decent man. I also know he is short an a bit homely. Unfortunately in this world that counts more than it should. He needs to stay right where he is. Our Representatives need an example of what they should be. I see where people are trying to figure out why the media is pushing Obama and Clinton. The reason is they figure that a black man or a woman might be beat. They know that Edwards won't be beat. He is the only candidate that has laid out his program in detail. He came from working class people and hasn't forgotten. He is disgustingly honest. I believe with all my heart he is our best choice.

We need Clinton and Obama in addition to Kucinich in Edwards's (and our) Congress. Edwards needs me advising him on framing his health care issues...(!)...:-) I do think he's losing a golden opportunity by not distinguishing himself from the pack when he is by far the best of the top three on this issue alone (and Iraq). Bless Kucinich for bringing up the topic of honest-to-goodness real health care reform, but Dennis is not electable. (And WTHeck is he doing backing Obama for heaven's sake?) Bless you Marilyn for posting this clip. I'll forward it onto a few friends now that I've had a chance to see it. Do you ever post on Kos? They're not as easy to deal with as Current, but we need to be explaining some facts where Clinton and Obama backers hang out. We had a great thread going on Alternet yesterday. The best thing I can say about Clinton or Obama though is that they are better than any Republican running. The problem is that's not good enough. If we can't elect Edwards, there may not be a left, left.

Have you noticed? Republicans seem intent on guaranteeing no one without proper ID is allowed to vote, while Democrats seem more (but not enough in my opinion) worried about paper trails for electronic ballots. I agree paper trails should be more important than setting up extraneous hoops for already disenfranchised Americans (unnecessary hoops are more like backdoor poll taxes in disguise)...but we absolutely can't recount what we can't count, and vice verse.

This cause will be the subject of my next letter to the editor! We ALL need to do this and even call Radio Rightyland with the same message. Even though they will cut our mics, enough of us may get through. MM, you should link the newspaper idea to this pod/thread and do the same with that thread to this one.

Well done!

He has predicated his presidential run on this single idea and I think it is not only the BEST idea but one he not only will follow through on but also one that he cannot shirk from since it is his entire campaign. Corporate Fascism is EVERYTHING that is wrong with America.

Thanks again, Marilynn

Obama represents the "Audacity of False Hope" on health care. As small business owners whose very lives depend upon real (not fake) health care reform, we have done our research on this topic. Please trust us on this. Lives (ours and possibly yours) are at stake. Specifically, Obama's plan says health insurers would have to "JUSTIFY" charging large premium differences...as if financial discrimination against people when they are sick and at their most vulnerable is justifiable at all. That's all the insurers need to keep us at their mercy, and THEY HAVE NONE. With friends like this who needs enemies? Other legislation he supports says we will have access to the same health care plan as he and other members of Congress have "except for the way (we) are rated" (sigh). He leaves that part out, but I'm pretty sure he knows it's in there, and neglects to mention that federal employee plans cost more than the $12,100/year national average in a country where the median household income is $48,200. He gutted real health care reform legislation offered here in Illinois (by changing one word: "shall" to "may"). Had he supported the "Health Care Justice" bill as written, it would have passed. Hillary's plan says insurance companies will be prohibited from charging "large" premium differences based on "modified" community rating (whatever that means). Again, that is the only loophole health insurance companies need. SHAME on both Obama and Clinton for caring more about health insurers than people, when health insurers are killing at least 101,000 innocent Americans every year (new study in Health Affairs) and wasting $600 Billions (with a "B") of our health care dollars. Physicians for a National Health Program (www.pnhp.org ) concludes we could cover everyone far more reliably and comprehensively, and still save $350 Billion (again with the "B") each year by cutting out one very unnecessary, greedy and heartless middleman. California Nurses Association (the largest nurses' group) is right on real with this topic too (unlike Clinton, Obama and every Republican running). Massachusetts is a great example of "Universal Care Done WRONG" (an unaffordable, unsustainable, mandate feeding the beast that is the main part of the problem will not solve the problem). HERE IS THE IMPORTANT PART: Edwards is the only one of the top three (and all Republicans running) who even wants to create a level playing field with REAL (not fake) community rating and guaranteed issue. The difference is Edwards "gets" what needs to be done while Obama and Clinton don't. Both (and all the Republicans running) want us to believe that the problem is the solution when it isn't. American lives and the future of our economy depend upon voters not being too busy to notice or care about the devil in their details. Edwards is the only viable candidate who would even try to point us in the right direction on health care, not to mention a few other issues as well (Invasion and Occupation of Iraq). Bless Kucinich for what he is trying to do, but he is not electable, and Al won't run. Please help me spread the word about Obama, Clinton, and their selling out of "We the People" to the "Welfare of the Few" powerful moneyed interests on health care. I think Republicans think they can beat Hillary or Obama, and that Edwards bothers and worries them more because he would do the most to counter the damage they have done. Plus, polls show him the most likely to defeat any Republican running. A quote from Michael Moore after the Iowa caucus: "So Barak...if you can, tell me why you are now the second largest recipient of health industry payola after Hillary. You now take more money from the people committed to stopping universal health care than any of the Republican candidates"...

why is it that these far right democrats are running right now? the first "electable" black man and white woman ever?( to my knowledge) why does the corporate media love them so much more than the other candidates?, why is it they come along right when a united democratic party could, just maybe, (that is IF our vote is to matter THIS time) elect someone who would shake things up? because lets face it there are those who would vote for a woman or black man, just to see that major civil victory, regardless of the candidates party or suitability. why is it that our vote is being so pulled, right when the american people can take no more corpocracy? its almost as if some evil neo-con conductor, was sitting in the eaves, with his token democrats, who love the corporations and the "way things are" as much as any republican. just waiting for an emergency like kuccinich and edwards.