I just heard about a political movement called Unity08, a new citizen-led movement to elect a bi-partisan ticket in the 2008 presidential election in order to put an end to divisive politics and special interest influence.
They have recently launched a Delegate Drive to recruit American voters to be Delegates to the Unity08 national presidential primary to be held over the Internet in the summer of 2008.
Unity08 states they present an opportunity for everyday Americans to once again have more say than rich lobbyists, the media, and a handful of voters in early primary states in who shows up on the ballot in November 2008. The bipartisan Unity Ticket would represent the vast majority of Americans who are in the political middle and who've had enough with inferior choices among candidates whose first priority is fund raising and advancing their own careers.
I've tried reading through their web site and I feel like it is hard to find anything I can sink my teeth into to really understand their position fully.
Learn more at: http://www.unity08.com/. Check it out and let me know what you make of them.


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"The American Agenda will be a major online initiative through which our online supporters will select the crucial issues facing our nation, participate in interactive briefings where nonpartisan, expert views on all sides of the issues are presented"
Sounds like consensus leadership - which never works. It's like asking a bunch of people whether you need an operation or not and then determining whether you do or not based on the majority's opinion. It's rather silly.
Leadership means taking stands that might not be popular but are right. This Unity '08 process discredits this notion.
Somehow I doubt we'll hear much from them in the course of the presidential election.
I am frustrated with "politics", in many of the regards that 'they' appear to be as well, but just didn't see anything on their web site that was convincing me that their "band wagon" was the one to jump on.
I think I'll just maintain my letter writing as I usually do to my elected officials.
And do my best to go with the lesser of the two evils.