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CELEBRATING UN-PRESIDENTS DAY: WHY I WILL NOT VOTE FOR A PRESIDENT IN 2008

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I will complain-I will scream and rant b*tch and whine, and I won't shut up, and what I will complain most loudly about is a culture where citizens get what they settle for because they refuse to face the reality that the system is completely rigged against them, and they prolong their own agony by hanging on to the fantasy of business as usual as their empire, well into collapse, sucks the last drops of their blood and rides off into a Stage Five smog-alert sunset to rape and pillage and plunder the rest of the planet in the name of things like "democracy", "the two-party system", "Super Tuesday", and let's not forget, "the first female president."

No, I won't be voting for a president of the United States in 2008. Should I be able to use a paper ballot, I may well vote for state and local officials in a venue where authentic choice exists.                                                                                      

But it's only the nasty Republicans who rig elections, right? Well, have you noticed how cozy Bill Clinton and Poppy Bush have become since Bubba left office? The mind reels imagining those intimate afternoon conversations between Bill and Poppy on Senior's yacht.

"So what's on your mind Bill? Do you mind if I call you Bill?"

"No, not at all sir. Well sir, I've been thinking a lot about 2008, and I know you know a lot about these things."

"Yes son, I do, and trust me, everything's under control."

Sorry, I couldn't help verbalizing my fantasy. It's all so touching. Do you feel the love?

And now Hillary wants to send them off together in the first few weeks of her presidency to repair the damage done around the world by Junior? It's enough to make one feel warm and fuzzy all over, isn't it?

I think my cousin said it best when I asked if she planned to vote for a president this year.

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Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. is author of U.S. HISTORY UNCENSORED: What Your High School Textbook Didn't Tell You. Her forthcoming book is SACRED DEMISE: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse. She also (more...)
 
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