Meet the US Election Contenders - 31 Dec 07

Al Jazeera's Dave Marash reports from Washington on the contenders for the nation's top job. 

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[chocolatelabsrule]

We need to be protected from government terrorists like gulliani!!

[TrevorJNoyes]

There is only 1 candidate that will make change and end the war, Ron Paul is the only man who stands for Truth and freedom.

[charlielobie]

The Roman emperors provided bread and circuses for their people. The American empire does the same, though lately with less bread. They're making up for it in the circuses department. I'm talking about the election charade.

It's so sad to see otherwise intelligent people falling prey to this circus.

The election campaign is big business. It's good for the economy. So this will go on.

[yahoovisitor]

Terrorism hasn't been defined or explained yet by any presidential candidate. Whether they call it going against USA or standing against injustice. None of the US leaders has so far defined or explained this word.

[yahoovisitor]

The irony is that those candidates quoting for destruction of Pakistan & its nuclear assets are being encouraged. But no sincerity in solving the Kashmir Issue, the basis of Pakistan's becoming a nuclear power is being shown. The U.S citizens also seem to have their eyes closed on the issue. Or they are not being updated as currently the Iraq and the Afghanistan Issue is not being shown as a true picture.

[pavko718]

corporate interests need money, our money. That's why people can have an effect on them through the choice we have of what be we buy. Sadly, no one believes it, and would be hard pressed to spend a bit more for a product which is not made by an oppressive corporation. Mostly because we don't know the good from the bad and do not exercise our economic powers.

[jwlvs]

It will also open up corporate control of our private lives, monopolies, union busting, low wages, low benefits, environmental disasters, Enrons-a-plenty and the general ignoring of anyone without much money.

The only answer is a well-regulated capital system and a wide, indiscriminate social safety net. It works in all the other richest countries in the world, but it's been hampered here by corporate money.

[jwlvs]

The biggest problem with Ron Paul (and the Libertarian party) is that the power vacuum left by the castration of government they propose will be filled by corporations.

This would be only slightly better than now (we have corporate welfare, but leave people out to rot). But it wouldn't last, because where there's money, there's influence.

[jwlvs]

I'm voting on issues, and for me, the only one who is right on ALL the issues is Dennis Kucinich.

John Edwards talks a good game about being against corporate control, but his voting record when he was a Senator just doesn't match his progressive rhetoric.

[jwlvs]

He wants to distinguish between the terrorism we commit and the terrorism committed against us.