Is All Well?

Can Bush Save the Dollar's Fall?

I like Philly Jim's suggestion for the Progressive Patriots Party.

Finding capable, qualified, non self-serving candidates/leaders in the current, long-developing political morass in the USA will not be easy. A few months back former Senator David Bourne convened a meeting of relatively partisan-free national figures at the University of Oklahoma to discuss just such a possibility. Amongst other attendees was Mayor Michael Bloomberg who seems to be a most capable innovator who is willing to work tirelessly on both sides of the aisle and willing to consider novel ideas to improve society in the USA and the world; his track record in running NYC is completely at odds with the status quo approach that has dominated DC for decades. It is instructive that these savvy political leaders did not see a third party candidate being attractive to the populace at present. The public seems more content to take a chance with the hegemony of the current Bush and Clinton dynasties.

I fear that we will once again get what we deserve in the 2008 election, although I sincerely hope for something better...a new approach. We need a different definition of a patriot that has been in currency for the past eight years!