McCain, Clinton and Obama: Politics or Reality TV?

Winning at all costs seems to be the only consistent value for all of these candidates.

It seems that the centrists of both major parties are suffering from lack of commitment to any political doctrine including their own. The once culturally liberal John McCain is now pandering to the religious right, and even praising the mean-spirited and treacherous Carl Rove for his intellect. (Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post) On 2-16-08 "Liberal" Barack Obama was publicly reprimanded by "Conservative" McCain for waffling on his earlier promise to use public funding and work within the spending limits that this choice would impose. McCain then threatened to continue using privately donated campaign funds himself (www.comcast.net). Hillary Clinton, in spite of her disturbing tendency to publicly defend the interests of women and children (groups viewed as property and sub-humans by the extreme religious right), is all too willing to imprison Americans for some of their private behaviors. Barack Obama seems to believe that being a nice and friendly enough guy qualifies him to be president. Members of his campaign staff have made vague statements about the "decriminalization" of marijuana, and Senator Obama himself doesn't talk about it at all. (www.stopthedrugwar.org)