This commentary is good and fair. This campaign for the President will be come the most costly campaign ever. If we can shorten the campaign and limit costs the need for money will be less. But, if we try to do so, every form of journalism will try to get us to stop the effort.

This tallies so nicely with what I heard at the Obama platform event (except for the bit about the Edwards love child, which seems to have passed me by completely), that I couldn't resist posting it. No matter what issue anybody brought up at the meeting, eventually we seemed to come back to the corrupting effects on big money and big business. They've made these policies and now we're stuck with the mess seemed to be the general feeling. Echoed nicely in this English opinion piece.

Good article it made me think. The get richer but not if we keep our eye on the ball so to speak. Tax the rich is where we need to be that would be the most fair especially when they have taken such unfair advantage of us all over all these years.

A comical marxist analysis of US politics. If the super rich are so powerful how come they are taxed to death 35% regular income, about 50% estate tax, 15% tax on capital gains otherwise known as inflation and double taxation on corporation income- about 35% on corporate income and 15% more on dividends. Then you can add state taxes, often around 10% and usually w/o breaks for capital gains or dividends. By the way, contrary to mythology there is no good way to avoid these taxes.