Obama would rescue Main St., Not Just Wall St.

Bush and his GOP cronies are trying hard as they can to get as much money for their big oil and big corporation puppets masters, before they are booted out of the White House.

No surprise. The GOP is only interested in going to war and making money for rich friends, while cutting services for everybody else. The DEMS are always interested in helping people. That, my friends, lies the chief differences between the R and the D. It does not matter THAT MUCH for whom you vote as much as it matters WHICH party for which you vote.

People who say: I vote for the man, the candidate. They are fooling themselves. ALL Rs will favor the rich over the people, and will favor war. ALL Ds will favor helping the people.

What I found provided a personal epiphany. Authoritarian conservatives are, as a researcher told me, ``enemies of freedom, antidemocratic, antiequality, highly prejudiced, mean-spirited, power hungry, Machiavellian and amoral." And that's not just his view. To the contrary, this is how these people have consistently described themselves when being anonymously tested, by the tens of thousands over the past several decades.

Authoritarianism's impact on contemporary conservatism is beyond question. Because this impact is still growing and has troubling (if not actually evil) implications, I hope that social scientists will begin to write about this issue for general readers. It is long past time to bring the telling results of their empirical work into the public square and to the attention of American voters. No less than the health of our democracy may depend on this being done. We need to stop thinking we are dealing with traditional conservatives on the modern stage, and instead recognize that they've often been supplanted by authoritarians.

John W. Dean, former Nixon White House counsel, just published his seventh nonfiction book, ``Conservatives Without Conscience."

© Copyright 2006 Globe Newspaper Company.

Wake up american conservatives....they are gone or mutated in to another species...I have a good name for them The evil empire.

L B your buddies are socialist, they just took over an insurance empire, bailout others and now asking to take over bad debt from the banks and financial institutions andask us to pay for it. You are either brain washed, ignorant of the facts, or simply stupid.
This is socialism in full mode and next fascism will creep in as it always does when authoritarians are in charge.
You should be trembling in your boots at the prospect.
The ignorant McCain is making a fool of himself on the stage and Obama is brilliant, what a difference.

"all mindless liberal drivel.....the republicans are bad as a whole but the socialist left is brain-damaged and Obama's ignorance is extremely dangerous which makes the left far,far worse."

All mindless conservative drivel, with not a clue

L. B. vote for Bush? Yeah, you know what you're talking about.......

Well, you're pretty much a real piece of work, I'll give you that. Socialism, I might have to give some consideration, as Bush is socializing AIG, FM & FM, etc., and he might not have a choice in the matter, but communism, not hardly. Thank you for the further explanation of your views, it should keep anyone but other..... no can't say that (TOS, lol), uh, others of your ilk, from taking anything you say seriously. And that's an understatement.

Reagan grew government, left the biggest deficit to that date, and was the model for the idiots we have now, economically. Not a high recommendation.

Right, and that's why it's shrunk so much under Bush with a Republican congress. Come on. Line item might be nice but that is intended to cut earmarks, isn't it? Last I knew earmarks amount to less than 2% of the pork. Another reason McCain is such a joke. Wants to eliminate earmarks while he has the vampires (lobbyists) sucking our blood running his campaign. How many is it, 155, 164? They come and go.

LB, I'm still waiting for Regan's trickle down to actually trickle down.
I thought (silly me!) that it was to trickle down to citizens of THIS country.

Here's you million points of light, dude.

Does anyone see the irony of bailing out multimillionaire stockholders at the cost of the person who they won't allow raises to their minimum wage rate?

WE, the working people, (bless us) always pay for the top 1%.
Not they! Never they.

That's fair, right? After all, GOD himself must have come down on a cloud to decare it so.
Wilka

Increase the gap between "the haves"
and the have-nots

THAT is the republican way.
We pay for their sins, right?
The TAXpayers?
W

Well, to each his own, but I'm totally convinced that that is the most deluded of thought, after eight years of Bush. You all had your chance, and your ideology has brought this country to it's knees. This economic mess is all the Grease Our Palm party's party, period.

I am in total agreement.

Somebody upchucked on my article.

"Why do you cookie cutter, kool aid drinking Obamabots assume that everyone who is not jumping on the Obama bandwagon is in love with George Bush and the recent GOP congress?"

Uh, maybe because you support McCain, and he's four more years of it? Just sayin'

"Why do you cookie cutter, kool aid drinking Obamabots assume that everyone who is not jumping on the Obama bandwagon is in love with George Bush and the recent GOP congress?"

Because you repeatedly tell us that you support everything the Neocons have done. George Bush is just a puppet. You do know that, whether you are willing to admit it or not.

"As for the socialist movement,it was started by Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt,"

Hmm...I guess all those 19th century socialists in Europe were plugging a different political philosophy.

Yeah, right, I've seen all your posts criticizing anyone but Obama, NOT.

once bush is out and obama wins, i bet gas prices drop...bush and company are keeping them high so they can have just that much more $$ when they are out of office. supposedly the president can't have his hand still in his previous business interests, yeah right, it's just a matter of bs'ing records.