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To: maxncompany who wrote (18948)	8/27/2009 5:10:49 AM
From: Gib Bogle	9 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 50106

"It's Dem and Repub vs. the people" So what's to be done? It's just not sensible to go on about getting rid of politicians. We will always have politicians. The fact is that the politicians behave as they do because of the incentives that are built into the system. As long as it takes vast sums of money to run an election campaign, politicians will be beholden to those who give them money. So Obama campaigns on raising taxes on the rich (back to where they were a decade ago) and once elected drops that idea. As for Slider, you are being very charitable, and overlooking his harping on about Obama's race, his obsession with Saul Alinsky, his approval of weird Washington Times pieces, etc. etc., all sorts of crazy stuff that sounds as if it comes from Limbaugh or Lyndon LaRouche. Isn't it perfectly clear that Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly, Limbaugh etc, the figures who meet with such approval from many here (but not all) are totally pro-Republican? The idea that someone like Beck is speaking for "the people" against both Dems and Repubs is laughable.

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