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Einsteins belief.
May 17,2008.

In the New York Times a report about the selling of a letter, in which Einstein writes: “the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”
link:NYT

Democracy in America
April 18, 2008.

It was not only the Medicare Bill that was written by lawyers from K Street.

In 2000 the Commodity Futures Modernization Act passed congress, just before Christmas recess. Nobody knew what was in it except the lawyers of the investment banks on Wall Street who were the writers of the bill. The bill was pushed through congress by Phil Gramm, who is now the chief economic advisor of John McCain.
Since then,the shadow market of complex derivatives, now causing all the turmoil in the financial markets, is completely deregulated.
Source: Fresh Air (NPR) (April 3, 2008) Michael Greenberger interviewed by Terry Gross. If you want to listen to the interview go to: Fresh Air

McCain wins in South Carolina, Clinton, Romney win in Nevada.
Januari 19, 2008. McCain received 33% of votes, against Hucakabee 30%. Thompson (LA Law actor) was third with 16% of the votes.
On Thursday Romney departed to Nevada because it was clear from the polls that he probably wouldn't do any better than third place
. In Nevada, he had more success. He won the caucus, ahead of Ron Paul (2nd) and McCain (3rd).
McCain en Huckabee had largely ignored Nevada. As was expected it was especially the elderly and "moderates" that voted for McCain, while Huckabee had many followers among the evangelicals.

In Nevada Hillary won with 51% of the vote, Obama won 45% of the votes, but probably one delegate more, and Edwards got (quite surprising) only 4% of the votes. The number of votes for Edwards is quite dissappointing.
Hillary is, in my view too much a representative of the establishment in Washington. She believes for instance that the drug companies have a role to play in the political process. I always thought that democracy ought to be a matter of "The People" and not a matter of the big corporations.
Obama wants to have these drug companies sitting at the table too. Does he really think that he can achieve fundamental change with the cooperation of the drug companies that always have been opposed to change? This guy really must have a lot of hope.
The only person who seems to understand that over the last 30 years a lot of money has been stolen from the poor and the middle class only to give it to the richest in the USA is John Edwards. The growth of wealth in America has been enormous over the last decades but unfortunately only the richest gained from this trend. The wealth among the poor and the middle class remained the same or decreased. Shame, shame, shame!