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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SARMAN who wrote (14149)	11/7/2008 7:53:46 AM
From: Don Earl	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71456

I beg to differ. Neither Obama nor McCain made it to their respective tickets by popular vote. I doubt 95% of the population had ever heard of Obama until a little over 6 months ago. On the other hand, McCain has been a scumbag for years, and even Republicans hate him. At the end of the day, the corporate media, and two special interest groups, (Republicans and Democrats) handed you two choices that are not choices. You have a "popularly elected" Congress, that is very close to a 50/50 mix of Ds and Rs, that enjoys a 20% public approval rating. Out of that pool of almost universally hated possibilities, you were handed a choice between bad and worse, with a very thin margin on which was which. Both candidates ran on virtually identical platforms, and both candidates have virtually identical voting records. My beef isn't with who is elected by popular vote. My beef is with candidates who don't represent the people who put them in office in the first place.