We've chatted about this before and I really don't believe that the US is open minded enough to have a female leader. I've travelled all over the USA and worked with 1,000s of women (I spent 5 years doing customer service consulting and that was 95% women and 4% gay men).

Hilary will get the vote of feminists but a lot of women will not vote for her because they think men should be in charge. I'm talking about women that work in corporate America as most don't want to be in charge and feel that men are better suited.

However, the dems could probably run Jimmy Carter or John Kerry and still win next year because of what you're saying about the republicans. The GOP has screwed things up so bad that I don't think they want to win the next Presidential election. Not if they want to do as the Communists say "What's good for the party".

They'll do a Bob Dole thingy and let McCain run on the condition that he steps down from the Senate. They know he'll loose and then they're done with a Republican that actually practices democracy instead of "Doing what's best for the party".

That is one of my biggest fears. Except, what if the republicans do run McCain and the Democrats run Hillary? McCain is actually liked by most people on both sides. He has the military record and as you say he tries to practice democracy. Just being a Republican will be enough for Republicans. And not being a woman and seeming to be a good, fair man would be enough for a lot of Democrats.

I would actually vote for McCain over Hillary.
I think it is way past due for a woman president, but I still do not think the country will vote for one as of yet.
Even if they were, I definately do not beleive that Ms Clinton is the woman for the job.

That would be OK. McCain seems to believe in democracy while the current administration believes in fascism. McCain may be a republican but he still has the right values to lead a democracy.

With McCain as president and the dems controlling the house the nation will return to the people which is what I want.

The shit is going to hit the fan hard as the % of tax $ used to pay interest closes in on 20% of everything collected. No one can stop that now as Dubya has increased the size of government so much that we can't balance the budget easily. The next President will be publicised as a failure no matter what happens.

Remember Dubya still has nukes and the last 2 months of his office will be more frightening then his dads.

Meatpounder, are you aware of the mcCain/feingold act? It scares the living shit out of me because it infringes directly on the freedom of speech...a VERY dangerous precedent.

I sincerely hope it does not continue in this fashion.

This is exactly what it looks like is going to be the case. IMHO, the only hope is a new horse down the line. This is the first election in a long, long, long, time that didn't have a standing Pres or past VP running so the field is wide open.

I think the US would vote for the right woman. I admire and like Hillary a lot but she is not that woman. Someone along the lines of a Madeline Albright would be stellar (but she wasn't born here).

And what the heck is all this about McCain in every media outlet? He's the same creep the rest of them are. OK, fought in battle, sometimes in opposition to the evil empire, a tobacco chewer (makes him kind of folksy doesn't it? I can't wait to see the spitoon next to the debate lectern). Even if he is Mr. Clean (which he's not), he knows all the other bullshit that's been going on and he has to participate to be a player. Nothing worse in my book than a gangster that pretends he's not (or one that's not and pretends he is). John McCain... NEXT!

However, I would get out the vote for any candidate that had one of two platforms either of which I think would be killer apps.

1. Platform is singularly to undo everything that Bush has done to the best of my ability (obviously Supreme Court is lost, whatever).

2. Platform that promises to do nothing or dedicates itself to eliminating millions of useless, bothersome, intrusive, ridiculous, laws, regulations and committes that have accumulated over the last 40 years. We all clean out our closets sometime don't we? Just leave us alone, send the money back (we'll pay shipping) and let the states handle it (sounds like the OLD republican platform doesn't it).

Lets start debating about what we don't need rather than more of what we do, because what we got isn't cool at all.

Finally, if your candidate is already a millionaire when he runs and you vote for him/her then you get what you got coming. If they're of average means, then at least its pretty easy to figure out when they or their posse has gone bad! Election financing won't let the average joe rise to the top? Probably right... see platform #2.

I remember reading that in the forties and fifties many states had little write-in protest spots for the voter and these were actually tabulated and published as kind of a quirk. These were eliminated because Mickey Mouse was getting an embarrassingly high number of votes. Maybe this should come back just to get a point across.

Funny you mention Madeline Albright. She was on the Colbert Report last night. And she said, when people that could be President in the line of succession were briefed on what to do in the case of Nuclear attack, she was left out. To be President, you have to be born in the US. She was born in Prague and can never be President.

Colbert Report. This guy is great. But I haven't seen his new show, cancelled digital cause I never watch it. Are you hip to this buzz about the Pres Bush roast the other night? A good example of the digital divide. Most of the media only showed that dufus imitation dude mimicking Bush but actually Colbert was the MAIN entertainer and he ripped Bush and the assembled media for all they were worth. "If less government is best government then we're doing great in Iraq"

Apparently he got hardly any laughs because everbody was terrified to do so. The mainstream press barely mentioned him for the same reason. In the websphere, all the blogs were a buzz with how funny he was and courageous and over the last couple of days the Washington Post, NY Times, other biggies user feedback sections were flooded with complaints, accusations, and the like over how the press has just rolled over to Bush. Like 90% of comments were flaming the mainstream press for ignoring him.

Two cultures, two information outlets. Two points of view. the old guard is falling. National newspaper circ. fell again last year 2.5%

http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...tephen+colbert here ya go DJilla... It was on CSpan, but I think they are done repeating it. There are a few links to it in this thread tho, I believe.

Wow! How did I miss that thread? Shows you how out of it I am. I thought that it was only a few days ago and its been almost two weeks. Thanks! Reading that thread reminded me of the rest of the story which is as you know C-Span broadcast the event but no media showed cuts of Colbert only the double bush. However, the video was all over the net. C-Span went on an immediate cease and desist hunt and threatened everybody. They're selling the DVD for $24.95