Sir;...God love your old hide, but there is nothing new here. The republicans do not govern for the whole people, and they have no respect for democracy. The democrats are little better, but without the money to buy public opinion, and keep up the scare they must appeal to more of the people. In fact our whole government is anti democratic, and for that very reason the landowners bore the price of government until the income tax became law. And it was made worse than it was found. The house of representatives limited their number. Once in our history there was one representative for every thirty thousand. Now that number is closer to one representative for every six hundred thousand. Does your government work for you??? Mine does not work for me. The whole thing began with little democracy, and it has only gotten worse. Are the republicans concerned for a handfull of votes??? It is because government has neatly divided us in every possible fashion. It does not matter to me whether the whole government is republican or democrat because as it stands it refuses to hear the voices of the people. Each district should be comprised of thirty thousand and every representative should clearly represent the will of the voters. How is that possible when we are cleaved right down the middle???. To have power our government has robbed us of our power. How can any government represent the whole people when slightly less than fifty percent of voters vote against their representative??? The government is forced to rule because it cannot govern. Niether party has the undivided support of the people and there is much outright enmity. The government has been the winner in this situation. The party structures have been winners...Their power has grown as ours has waned. Look at the immense sums spent to reach an office that pays very little. Why??? For Power??? That is our power they play upon. That is our power they dicker and deal on. The government can only hold that power so long as we are divided. So they diviide us. What if we should need our unity??? What if our very survival as a nation depends upon our unity??? Will we find that in a police state or at the end of a gun??? The government should resolve our differences instead of playing upon them for their power. It is time to seek unity, and not on any terms, but with justice for all. We cannot live without government. We can live without this government...Thanks...Sweeney

Third world tactics in a first class country. Where is our shining light, our beacon of hope to stop this assault against our democratic process? Jeb Bush is alive and well and his legacy remains. Whoever becomes President absolutely needs to add "and God bless America".

Jim Hightower is really cryin' in his soup. ACORN is active throughout the country tryin' their best to steal this election for that idiot Obama and he has to cry about a few problems that have cropped up from Republicans. Obama has funded some of the ACORN stupidity and has also worked for these jerks, not to mention that he is a lyin' skunk of a human. Conservative Democrats are startin' to come on strong for McCain and will put him over the top as the end draws near. Obama has a problem with his math and that is probably because he isn't really a scholar of any account. There is no way he can pay for his stupid pie-in-the-sky ideas by just taxing the rich. If any dumb liberal Democrat thinks this can be accomplish as stated by Obama, Jim Hightower probably has a ranch for sissies that they can go to and cry their eyes out after it's all over.