Sir;...The Question you pose, more than just about any thing you have ever said makes me realize you will never get at the meat of the problem no matter how much you hammer at the shell... ... To have power our parties have sacrificed unity, and that is the difference between our form of government that is democratic, and one that is a democracy...All true democracies seek consensus... This was true of the Iroquois Confederacy, and of many smaller gentile democracies...The reason is simple, that the solution to any particular problem should not result in a larger problem of disunion, that is potentually harder to resolve, and more dangerous... Some idiots, to have political power set out to divide this people almost from the start, on the model of England, long divided by her parties...These are not legal, and not constitutional, except in the sense that free association is legal, and while free association is legal and should be legal, parties should not be... But since they have led us into disunion, they have led us to ruin, and they are both absolutly correct to point the finger at the other party... They are both to blame, and equally to blame, and since all are party animals, no one in government can conceive of living without them... But we must... ... Mr. Obama is no true leader, but he is not a leader in any democratic sense either, because such a man under such a government concedes the power to the people and follows their will... He is stuck wanting to do as he is pushed to do, and unnable to do against the rightious indignation of the people for the goal he has in mind.... Many people want to see guns banned... Others buy Ammo, and plan insurrection...Some want social and economic Justice, and others meet that want with taunts of "Socialist, or Communist"... Since we have had this country we have had people trying to tear it limb from limb, and heart from soul... It does not make leaders free to lead, but makes them the prisoners of their office, and the victims of their circumstances... Any of them could do great good, if they would only forget about re-election, and bet all on a single throw of the dice.... They do not, and because they dare not... So they do not lead, but follow, and not the will of the people, but the path of least resistence like wind or water...They have divided us, and now they fear that division... Now they fear the slightest shift in public opinion, and what that means is that you lead, and I lead, and Rush leads, and every tom and dick with a voice and a will leads -on the basis of a frustrated and fickle middle which grows larger as we speak, that will not set still, but moves this way and that threatening always to dump the boat if something good does not happen for them... This is why the East so rejoiced when the stronger brother killed the weaker, and took the thrown... They were spared civil war, and divided leadership...No country can go two ways at once, so whether you like it or not, Mr. Obama only leads those who voted him into office; and if that is true, Mr Obama should not waste a moment placating the rest...He will not bring them along... They will not hear reason...They may even try to kill him....This is the result of the parties... This is where partocracy leads... Thanks...Sweeney

Mr. Buchanan: Speaking of what's in DNA, it's the kind of stubborn refusal to adapt, grow, and turn one's head away from the seemingly attractive but never-again-reachable past that's causing the likes of you and the failed leaders of the Republican party to go down the path of the Neanderthals. It's about evolution. You know, the science that folks like you just can't seem to get.

Re: Masako;... Sir,... Mr. Buchanan misses the point with his statement about DNA... It is not DNA that determinse our destiny and how we shall behave; but something much more profound... It is DYNA, our lives, lived in detail, vibrant, responsive, reflective, and fluid... Everyone has DNA, but few have DYNA... Those people who want to live by the book; the law book, the Bible, the Holy Q'uran, or what ever you call your principals or ideology are stuck just as people are stuck with their DNA..If they do not see that they can change it; they cannot change it...Most people live that way, with a small P philosophy... They cannot break free of bad habits or tradition, and their lives are a form of madness where what never worked is oft repeated...Look at us as a nation... We are still debating the merits of the new deal... Could there possibly be some finite picture of that reality??? Is it all lies and counter lies???We choose to be certain rather than to know, but even if we could know, and what we know does not work, why stick with it out of principal???We have good ideas instead of good thoughts... Then we let our ideas do our thinking, and if our ideas fail, we blame the human beings charged with making it work... What if our grand ideas are wrong... What if errors, just as with DNA, keep replicating???Isn't it better to look at all we do in terms of the life we see affected???If we could judge all our bright ideas in terms of life, in terms of DYNA rather than some fixed star like DNA; we could be fine... Instead, ideas and principals and false ideas like DNA afflict us... And I am not saying DNA does not have some truth to it...Yet, if it means biology is fate, it still tells us nothing... What is wrong with this society, hate and greed, for an example, are not genetic... They are the ways miserable people play against the force of their lives, and try to punish all within their reach...It is totally reactive: feel pain, express pain...There is no life in it, and no dynamic...Thanks...Sweeney