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I totally agree!

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:43:26 +0000

I totally agree with James Anderson, this is a government bailout of, NOT the people, but the industry. Why is the money not going to the people? It proves that this is a government of, by and for the industries, but it should and MUST be of, by and for the PEOPLE!!

No words can express the

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:17:30 +0000

No words can express the deep disgust which I feel for Congress and the President for undermining the Constitution and selling out the American People to special interest groups. I intend to support electoral reform as the fundamental route to get America back.

Wow, I love America!

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:01:43 +0000

Wow, I love America!

Cleaner

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:38:02 +0000

I agree as I do think that mandatory public financing would certainly make things a whole lot "cleaner".

clearing up the water

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:47:33 +0000

I really love that Obama "muddy water" metaphor. I really think mandatory public financing would go a long way toward cleaning things up - along with full transparency. These interests want to spend money to influence so where will it go? More ad campaigns? ---- Support The Melaleuca Foundation - Enhancing Lives, Restoring Hope.

"Clean Elections" a WINNER

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:46:18 +0000

Ask the states that have it. I live in Maine and the difference is dramatic. The tone of campaigns has changed, "unwholesome influences" are being squeezed out, and campaign rhetoric is more issue based. Haven't seen evaluations yet, but I'd bet that our legislative process is improving and will continue to improve steadily. Nobody here would want to go back to the old mode.

There is certainly a lot of

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:51:01 +0000

There is certainly a lot of controversy about the ads in question. As a nursing mother myself, who has had her share of challenges doing so, I'm not sure what I think of them. That said, it wasn't breastfeeding moms that HHS responded to in pulling the ads--it was lobbyist Clayton Yeutter, former RNC chief and Agriculture Department director. There is definitely something wrong with that picture.

There Are No Good Guys

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:39:30 +0000

There are no "good guys" in this scenario. The government caving to special interests is deplorable. However, the original ads would have used hyperbole and scare tactics to heap more guilt on women who are incapable of breastfeeding in order to get to those who could breastfeed but choose not to. That is psychologically destructive and paternalistic, and it ignores the lack of support to new moms that makes it difficult for whose who want to breastfeed to do so. Government accountability is not just about limiting the influence of special interests. It is also about owning the source of problems that they allegedly are trying to solve. When our society forces women to hide breastfeeding in public bathrooms, there is a substantial amount of hypocrisy in running ads attacking formula

right to bare arms!!

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:22:19 +0000

Dear Madame; We have the RIGHT! to bare ARMS!, sure they fall in the wrong hands, but so does"government seats"!, If we do not stand up for"our constitution" Then they are going to stomp all over it!!!! We must maintain our rights and take back OUR vote, before anything!!, or we will have "no America"!!! Comprende??? Do your research!, and I do NOT mean watch the NEWS!!! Regards, Kimberly