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Putting Boots (Birkenstocks) on the Ground: Part VIII

Here’s a dramatic example of how the candidate contracts can work in eliminating ambiguity and obfuscation, leapfrogging campaign rhetoric and doublespeak to determine exactly where candidates stand on critical issues. Continue reading

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Mission Control: We Have A Problem

Is anyone thinking this through? While a Bernie Sanders presidency would inject some hope into our dismal electoral politics and floundering democracy, his election without a supportive Congress would create gridlock and dysfunction of biblical proportions. Democrats and Republicans would combine for a bipartisan assault, President Sanders would be demonized, vilified, emasculated, meaning the prospects for the advancement of a progressive agenda, serving the needs of all Americans, not just the ultra-wealthy, would be set back for decades. Continue reading

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Hillary’s Secret Campaign Strategy

Hillary Clinton has a secret plan for winning the presidential election in 2016. Continue reading

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Just Say No! . . . To Duopoly

I am not interested so much in berating Mr. Obama, as preventing the same mistake from happening again. The same mistake would be Hillary Clinton. Or Jeb Bush. Or Rand Paul. Continue reading

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VIDEO BLOG: It’s too complicated.

There’s a smugness that has overwhelmed our political system. It’s the patronizing, know-it-all, self-congratulating, self-important smugness of our elected officials. Time to do something about it. Continue reading

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“It’s too complicated.”

There’s a smugness that has overwhelmed our political system. It’s the patronizing, know-it-all, self-congratulating, self-important smugness of our elected officials. Time to do something about it. Continue reading

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Pledge: Oil Industry Subsidies

The voting public nationally has stated its position on oil industry subsidies loud and clear. It wants them done away with immediately! So let’s go after the turncoat toadies who have been voting their pocketbooks and have opposed ending this horrific and wasteful giveaway of our tax dollars to corporations that already are awash in profits. Continue reading

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The October Surprise

They say timing is everything. It may not be everything but it certainly is critical. When is the best time to present the candidate pledges? When should this confrontation take place? I am recommending the first week of October, one month before the election. The October Surprise. Everybody loves surprises! Continue reading

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How Pledges Can Work

How will candidate pledges for progressive positions on key issues be effective? How will this work? Intimidation! We will either make the toadying hypocrites sign the pledges out of fear that they will lose the election, or we will run them out of office by instigating voter outrage for voting against the laws the vast majority of Americans want. Continue reading

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Pledges: Candidate Contracts

The candidate pledge, now deployed to such grossly destructive ends, can be used to an opposite effect, that is, as a means of restoring some sanity to what comes out of the U. S. Senate and Congress. Candidate pledges can result in legislation on a host of crucial issues and pull the country out of the death spiral we currently find it in. I’m referring to familiar measures supported by large majorities that reflect the stated values and express wishes of the American people. Continue reading

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