Lizard versus Lizard in tonight's debate

Americans should stand up for themselves, rather than just take another Madison Avenue debate.

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It has come to be that American government is of the lizards, by the lizards, and for the lizards. Tonight, there will be a fakey, staged "debate" between Barack Obama and John McCain, both of whom are running to be the Lizard-in-Chief. I wonder if I should wish good luck to them. "May the best lizard win!" As usual, on Election Day in November, Americans will try to vote for "the lesser of two lizards." Well, America, I have come to the end of my sympathy. If America once again elects the lesser of two lizards, then there should be no complaining; no outrage; and no dismay in the next presidential term.

Americans cannot look at me and ask, "Hey - who put these lizards in charge?" --if, in fact, it was my fellow Americans - you - who elected the Lizard-in-Chief. Perhaps I should offer my apologies for disparaging a fine species of reptiles. They don't deserve to be tarnished with brush strokes that conflate American politicians into their ranks.

There is a fakey, manufactured economic crisis that has been overplayed by politicians and talking heads, who have been boggling as if the sky is falling - and, they have used the fear of the crisis to ram through Congress a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street's guilty - basically a mugging for America's taxpayers which contravened the principles of free markets and private enterprise. Barack Obama and John McCain both voted for this bailout and thereby became two muggers. We can say they revealed themselves to be lizards.

Obama and McCain should be going to jail, not the White House! And further, the American people still have 20 days left to figure this out; to forward this text; and to catch on in time to change the outcome of the election. They should do so. They should follow this line of reasoning. They should reclaim America's future. Let's remember that actual Americans were against the bailout by a margin of 200-to-1. It means, they agree and if you forward this text as an email, they may thank you. (Try it!)

I don't mind exerting a bit of influence that's like leadership on the side of the American people (not lizards). When I was the 18 year old candidate for U.S. President (1984), bumper stickers said, "People Are Important," and I emphasized that the budget must be balanced and taxes must be fair - two of the planks in my "politics of practical idealism." I am now writing to you from the age of 42, and I've added knowledge and experience since 1984, but I'll stand by the politics of practical idealism.

At the age of 18 I wasn't wrong, and I learned a lot about the politician's game. I know how these lizards think. "Trickle down economics" was objectionable when Reagan first extolled it, and I rose to be the youngest-ever political opponent of Ronald Reagan. Trickle-down is also known as "voodoo economics," and I tried my darnedest to swat it in 1984. So, I have a history of fighting for the American people against the lizards. (I told you not to re-elect him, and I even said that you could write in my name! :)
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