Every candidate running for President ought to read Jan Frel's article (below) and then think long and hard about whether or not he is capable of being the kind of President Frel describes and this country needs. As for everyone else, to understand the realities we must face to reclaim our country from the ruling cabal, Jan Frel's article is a ...
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Jan Frel, AlterNet's senior editor, writes:"... A presidential candidate who was serious about the issue of Iraq would most certainly run on the platform of ending the presidency as it stands, and call for a total overhaul of the American political system. I don't think that is something you'll find even in Dennis Kucinich's playbook.Read the entire article.
It is the executive itself that is at the heart of the problem. The presidency has turned into a hideous creature of the 18th Century; it has accreted enormous power, rapidly accelerated since the New Deal. Tie this into the debate about the state of political representation in this country: it's stalled at whether the District of Columbia should get a voting member in the House, which would make it 436 members for 300 million citizens. How can you take a serious look at a number like that and expect serious executive oversight and representation, even from a pure majority of progressive ideologues? You can't.
So, as I see it, the way out of Iraq and never having an Iraq again is to make these two questions central: Do we want an empire and what does democracy in the 21st Century look like?"
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