A Plan to Ease Your Pain at the Pump?

Gas prices got you down? You're not alone.
The three remaining presidential candidates are talking up their plans on how to get skyrocketing oil prices under control. An article from the Dallas Daily News drew a full tank of clicks as voters read up on which candidate had the best ideas. Whether these ideas do the trick is something we'll have to wait and see. Call me cynical, but it's not like the government is known for working quickly...

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Fight for the Dream

Tell the presidential candidates to pledge to close the buyout industry's tax loopholes
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Dear presidential candidates,
Buyout industry executives with multi-million dollar incomes have been exploiting a tax loophole that allows them to pay a lesser tax percentage rate than most of the workers in the companies they manage.
This is a disgrace!
Make a pledge, if elected, that you will work to close the buyout industry's tax loopholes.

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Tom O'Connor For President '08

I Hate Politics, So I’m Running For President
January 29th, 2007 tom o'connor
It’s coming up again, we have to make our choices, pick a party, a candidate and vote. In 2008 we will be choosing which RICH Guy/Gal will be running the country.
Maybe you have made your decision along party lines ? Maybe you claim to be independent or have ended up voting for the lesser evil. Maybe, like me, you didn’t vote at all…..the worst thing you could do. Our country, despite it’s faults, gives us a voice. I will vote in the upcoming election, I’ll be voting for myself. And I want your votes too.
I think you should go to his Site to read all that he has to say!
http://tomoconnor.wordpress.com/

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Marriage, Sexuality, Abortion Issues for Candidates

Is the Presidency really going to be determined by these issues?
Is the "Cultural War" real?
What the hell is going on in this Country?
Issues like should homosexuals be allowed to get married, abortion, and other "moral issues" appear to be of more concern then let's say Human Welfare, Poverty, Education, Civil Rights and Liberties, and the Economy.

Laura Flanders: To Beat the Right, Clinton and Obama Need to Be Clear About Supporting Gay Rights
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Democrats will keep getting attacked on sexuality, marriage and abortion for as long as they dodge the discussion. Read more »

The following explains this better than I ever could:

December 2000 & January 2001 TOC
FEATURES:Why There is a Culture War
By John Fonte

As intellectual historians have often had occasion to observe, there are times in a nation’s history when certain ideas are just "in the air." Admittedly, this point seems to fizzle when applied to our particular historical moment. On the surface of American politics, as many have had cause to mention, it appears that the main trends predicted over a decade ago in Francis Fukuyama’s "The End of History?" have come to pass — that ideological (if not partisan) strife has been muted; that there is a general consensus about the most important questions of the day (capitalism, not socialism; democracy, not authoritarianism); and that the contemporary controversies that do exist, while occasionally momentous, are essentially mundane, concerned with practical problem-solving (whether it is better to count ballots by hand or by machine) rather than with great principles.
And yet, I would argue, all that is true only on the surface. For simultaneously in the United States of the past few decades, recurring philosophical concepts have not only remained "in the air," but have proved influential, at times decisive, in cultural and legal and moral arguments about the most important questions facing the nation. Indeed: Prosaic appearances to the contrary, beneath the surface of American politics an intense ideological struggle is being waged between two competing worldviews.
Far from being content with a mere uprising, therefore, Gramsci believed that it was necessary first to delegitimize the dominant belief systems of the predominant groups and to create a "counter-hegemony" (i.e., a new system of values for the subordinate groups) before the marginalized could be empowered. Moreover, because hegemonic values permeate all spheres of civil society -- schools, churches, the media, voluntary associations -- civil society itself, he argued, is the great battleground in the struggle for hegemony, the "war of position." From this point, too, followed a corollary for which Gramsci should be known (and which is echoed in the feminist slogan) — that all life is "political." Thus, private life, the work place, religion, philosophy, art, and literature, and civil society, in general, are contested battlegrounds in the struggle to achieve societal transformation.

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