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LEK
03-20-2008, 10:03 PM
Somebody posted this link:
http://www.freedomfirstsociety.org/articles/articles/7/1/The-Great-American-Swindle/Page1.html

It is very interesting - Called "The Great American Swindle" - about the presidential election process.

Here's a sample:

Contrast that with the vitriolic campaign launched against Barry Goldwater in 1964. It became really tough to support Goldwater after all that was said about him by the press. We should keep in mind that if any candidate for president seriously threatens the Establishment, the Establishment media will effectively ridicule and discredit the candidate as a threat to world order or national prosperity, as outside serious civilized debate, or as carrying embarrassing baggage. Or the Insiders can reuse the clever tactic they employed to keep Robert Taft from getting the Republican nomination in 1952. The line went that Taft was good but not electable — "I like Taft, but he can't win."

Thanks whoever posted it.