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<div>1. Of course Barack Obama is not the answer. We are the answer. Voting someone into or out of office and then walking away until next election is hardly democracy, rule by the people.</div><div><br></div><div>Frances Moore Lappe calls the present imitation product "thin democracy":</div><div><br></div><div><i>Thin Democracy is an unworkable mental map that keeps us from coming to terms with local-to-global crises. This inherited map includes such ideas as: democracy is something that is done to or for us by distant officials; it is a set system of an elected government plus a market economy; public life is ugly and alienating, so that even the most thoughtful citizens are relegated to simply voting, working and shopping. A single rule—the highest return to shareholders—continues to drive the market, which tends to concentrate wealth and power, which in turn influence the political process.</i></div><div><br></div><div><<a href="http://awakeningcharlotte.com/content/2008/11/02/an-interview-with-frances-moore-lappe/">http://awakeningcharlotte.com/content/2008/11/02/an-interview-with-frances-moore-lappe/</a>></div><div><br></div><div>2. It matters a lot who the winners are on Nov 4. Steve Bhaerman explains in "'Mandate' for Political Climate Change". It's a long article, but I doubt we have short ways to describe the process yet.</div><div><br></div><div><i>I believe the choice we face in the coming weeks and months is so profound that even the "apolitical" need to be awakened. ... I also got a few emails suggesting that Obama is part of the same dysfunctional system, himself a tool of empire, so what difference will it make to vote for him? ...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "></span></i></div><div><br></div><div><i>You might rightly ask, "Isn't Barack Obama in bed with the likes of Zbigniew Brzezinski, and the same power structure George Bush is part of?" Yes and no. Paradoxically, part of being functional is being part of the empire. ...</i></div><div><br></div><div><<a href="http://heartlandsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/10/mandate-for-political-climate-change.html">http://heartlandsecurity.blogspot.com/2008/10/mandate-for-political-climate-change.html</a>></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Nov 2, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Deanna Spingola wrote:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><table id="INCREDIMAINTABLE" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td id="INCREDITEXTREGION" dir="ltr" width="100%" style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; "><table id="INCREDIMAINTABLE" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td id="INCREDITEXTREGION" dir="ltr" width="100%" style="font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; "><div>I recognize that some people think Obama is the answer to our problems. "Change," as promised throughout his campaign is a bit too trite and has been repeatedly used by others.</div><div> </div><div>The usual process of delegate selection was not used at the Democratic Convention. The California, close to the start, opted out. Clinton's supporters were called out for a special meeting and were not present when Pelosi and Clinton orchestrated a verbal vote as requested by Clinton before they even got to New York. This is totally against Robert's Rules of Order. The Clinton supporters were not there to reject or support. A short time before the convention, the Arkansas super Clinton delegate, Bill Gwatney, was shot and killed. His assailant was immediately apprehended and shot. This certainly sends a message.</div><div> </div><div>Obama has some interesting supporters: Soros, Brzezinski, and other questionable characters. Vote fraud has been proven to many people's satisfaction in Ohio in 2004 and Florida in 2000. If Obama were the person so many people think he is, he would have been neutralized. The mass media would also be addressing the birth certificate issue which, despite some opinions, is serious. If he were indeed born in Kenya, this could lead to a constitutional crisis for those of us who still consider that document significant.</div><div> </div><div>Nothing will change. It does not matter who "wins" the election. The only way to change things is if the distracted masses turn off the TV, unplug their I-pods and recognize what is going on. Enlightenment about 9/11 might assist. But the mass media is a big factor. He who controls a nations money decides everything. He who controls the mass media controls what everyone thinks and believes.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr></tr></tbody></table><br></blockquote></div></div></body></html>