Media, stop telling us who to vote for!

I am starting to believe that this entire election cycle is rigged. Not because people are messing with the voting machines (which I am sure they are), but because the media is basically telling us who to vote for.

Every day I hear about the inevitability of President Hillary Clinton. I hear it so much I sometimes start to believe it! And I have no intention of ever voting for her. What about the other candidates? What about the issues? Hillary is often on the wrong side of many issues, with the war on Iraq being the most prominent.

The last time I felt this way was sometime around November of 2003. One of the big news outlets did an entire segment dedicated to the inevitability of a John Kerry nomination (notice, not President). I was working for Howard Dean's campaign at the time, and I could not believe the crap I was watching. The media was not reporting on what was taking place, but instead reinforcing an idea of who the "probable" candidate was. There was also this huge media confusion over the Dean campaign at the time. It was as if the media was collectively asking, "How could this Dean guy just show up and start messing with our plans!?"

We are back at this moment again, only this time we have no Dean-style candidate that is leading a truly people-powered movement. The campaigns may all look cool and Dean-like through their use of social networking sites and the internet to raise money and awareness; however, they are just photocopies of the original Dean movement. They are inauthentic. The media has tried to paint Obama's campaign with the same brush as the Dean campaign, although it is clearly apparent that Obama poses no threat to the establishment campaign of Hillary as Dean posed to the establishment campaign of John Kerry. There is no media outrage over Obama's popularity because it will simply not matter in the end.

It saddens me that the only hope to break the spell the media has put us under is to have a true leader begin to literally take votes away from Hillary. I mean, literally go from house to house and community to community to gather voters, bypassing the media entirely. The reason why that saddens me is because in my heart I don't think it's going to happen this time around. We are heading on a collision course for eight years of a deepening of the hole we have created. Our best hope at this point may be Al Gore. He is a leader in every sense of the word, so he could build up an army of progressives that will follow in the footsteps of Dean and take the media out of the equation.

Hillary may be good for the economy if she balances the budget and tries to solve the inequality that exists in this nation. But overall, she is more of the same. The media is fearful of change, so they would not choose someone who will rock the boat.

A poem

The clouds of Fascism are rolling in.
The heat of Capitalism is on the front.
The Bush regime scares the fuck outta me,
because they are going to take us all down with them!

Helen Thomas gives it to Bush

Check out this exchange with Helen Thomas and Bush during one of his press conferences:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/22/150252

My Letter to Senator Feinstein

Please join Russ Feingold in supporting the censure of President Bush for the illegal wiretapping of American citizens. The Senate must make a strong statement that the President's actions are illegal and that he is not above the law.

We need more senators like Feingold. Most likely many of your own constituents are in favor of a lot more than just a censure. They are in favor of impeachment hearings! But the very least the Senate can do at this time is take a bold stand for the constitution and stand up for our rights by censuring him.

A warrant is required by LAW to wiretap any of our phone lines. Bush does not have any warrants. Therefore, he is breaking the law!

The Nation article of the day

Where Are the Good Americans?

The Democrats are letting this happen

Please someone stop this illegal war!!!! That's all. Nothing more to say.

A Swastika drawn between his eyes....

From Salon.com, here is the description of the pictures obtained from Abu Ghraib prison:

A review of all the computer media submitted to this office revealed a total of 1,325 images of suspected detainee abuse, 93 video files of suspected detainee abuse, 660 images of adult pornography, 546 images of suspected dead Iraqi detainees, 29 images of soldiers in simulated sexual acts, 20 images of a soldier with a Swastika drawn between his eyes, 37 images of Military Working dogs being used in abuse of detainees and 125 images of questionable acts.

What is up with the Swastika? I don't understand. All I know is I don't have to work very hard making comparisons between the Third Reich and the Second Bush Administration.