who would that be Mike? Siverstein? the 5 dancing mossad punks?

the companies in charge of airport security? WTC security?

whoever ordered the stand down?

there is absolutely zero evidence that any person of the muslim faith was even on the planes.

Lets end the crusades already. One world, one love.

The real perpetraitors WILL be found out in the coming investigation. There will be hangings.

Or, bring back the guillotine. Now THERE's some "must see tv"

I've heard that Cindy Sheehan may run on the socialist party ticket.

Presumably Nader will run again as an independent. Perhaps McKinney for the Green Party. Ron Paul will probably try to capture the Republican nomination only to be bamboozled by Sarah Palin and other lunatics, who in turn will be held up as a scarecrow to the masses. Cue Michael Moore and Normon Solomon begging voters to give Obama one more chance, lest the fruitcake moose killer get her hands on the doomsday button.

This is a good recipe for another four hellish years under the Republicrats. If this occurs, there is a very good chance that WWIII will erupt -- if it hasn't already by that time. Israel will only wait so long before attacking Iran.

It is long past past time that "progressives" and "libertarians" join forces and create a real third party challenge. This would entail putting aside profound differences in theories of political economy in the name of ending the wars and abolishing hopelessly corrupt financial institutions, whether the FED or Monsanto. We must remember that economics, the "dismal science", is not scientific at all. It's the modern day equivalent of alchemy, albeit much more useful to the ruling class. Libertarians must recognize that corporate personhood is antithetical to the rights of real people (FYI, Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson would have been appalled at the notion of corporations-as-people). Socialists must recognize that the state can be just as oppressive as free market capitalism.

I am of the opinion that you can't have libertarianism without socialism, and that you can't have socialism without libertarianism. To those who regard this as a contradiction or oxymoron, study indigenous societies.

"Respect for the individual, which Radin lists first as an aboriginal attribute, deserves to be emphasized, today, in an era that rejects the collective as destructive of individuality on the one hand, and yet, in an orgy of pure egotism, has actually destroyed all the ego boundaries of free-floating, isolated, and atomised individuals on the other. A strong collectivity may be even more supportive of the individual as close studies of certain aboriginal societies reveal, than a 'free market' society with its emphasis on an egoistic, but impoverished, self"
-Bookchin, Remaking Society, p. 48]

It's time for a little humility on both sides. To idolize property is an affront to the message of Jesus; it is the worship of Mammon. "The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined." Psalms 10:2

To allow individual rights to be swallowed in the name of the collective (communism) is to destroy individual agency.

The key is to recognize that social and individual responsibility go hand in hand.

We must put aside our dogmas and embrace a modicum of common sense. To do otherwise is to place messy, unproven political theories over the survival of the human race. Which is insane.

The Michael Moores and Limousine liberals must make a clean break from the Democratic Party. The libertarians must find common cause with the misnamed "radical left" -- whose views (universal health care, living wages, sane tax policy etc.) represent those of the majority of the population. Is "liberty" merely the ability to accrue wealth, or might it involve strange concepts like the ability to live with dignity? To have a roof over one's head and food to eat and access to medical care?

"Come together", as John Lennon wrote. Sheehan, McKinney, Nader; progressive celebrities like Tim Robbins and Sean Penn; only- semi-corrupted politicians like Gravel and Kucinich and Paul; intellectual giants like Chomsky and Klein and Hedges; libertarian scholars like Greenwald and (what the Hell) Alex Jones. We have all the ingredients but a dysfunctional kitchen. COME TOGETHER and create a viable third party movement rather than splinter into bickering factions.

This may be the only hope to stave off Armageddon.

Truth be told, I have little or no faith in voting.

"In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property." --Daniel Guérin

"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats, We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee."
- Hellen Keller

Either we change these dynamics or we're doomed.

If all else fails -- or perhaps as a simple starting point -- we must organize a mass movement completely independent of mainstream politics as a whole. From there, figureheads and delegates can emerge. This movement must also be international in character. I'm a Canadian. I live one hour from the border. US corporations own half my country but I cannot vote in US elections. All I have is a tiny soapbox on the internet. Corporations are global, even if most of their headquarters lie in the US, Britain and Tel Aviv. We must become global, even we disdain the concept of globalism.

I honestly believe that we only have about a decade before the black flower of fascism fully blooms.

Now is the time. If we wait another two years it will be too late.

In the words of Bakunin -- the great anarchist philosopher who predicted both the tyrannical "red bureaucracy" of The Soviet Union and the "technocratic elite" of capitalist nations...

"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible."

- End Rant.

See diaries by jeffroby on the Dump Obama subject, and many recent diaries by themalcontent with a somewhat similar theme, though he eschews the phrase "Dump Obama". Also, yours truly has written on the subject. These are at my.firedoglake.com.

There's been precious little organizing that I'm aware of for a populist, left/right alliance. This happens on certain issues, but there's no broad-based, electoral organization being developed. Maybe the progressiveradionetwork.com will spawn such an effort, some day. They are open to various political ideologies, and generally avoid demonization of political opponents.

As for the demonization that has occurred, which makes a populist party arising that would eclipse both Dems and Repubs difficult, I suspect that there are Mockingbird types who work to prevent exactly that. See my diary Call for investigation of Left HATEKeepers (and Right HATEKeepers, too)