<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">From "Why Does Everyone Bow Down to the Health Insurance Industry?" by Barbara Ehrenreich.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The following is a thoughtful comment from "peacelf" who vows to vote for Kucinich or the Green Party presidential candidate:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">But, if voting percentages are correct, candidates like Kucinich don't have a chance because, just as our Democratic candidates are weak or afraid to take on the health insurance industry, so are the "liberals" weak and afraid to take on the political party candidates by voting their consciences rather than the lesser of two evils.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Look, I'm not taunting liberals or progressives to get them to vote for Kucinich,but <B>this problem with voting against one's interests has got to be addressed.</B> I have heard liberals themselves explain how the media manipulates our choices, how big business manipulates our choices, how campaign finance manipulates our choices. If we know the rich and powerful are forcing cards on us, why don't liberals pick a different card?</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">If all the liberals and progressives voted their consciences, rather than the media-manipulated "popular" candidates, then we would make a statement that would reverberate throughout the DNC. They would have to take notice if 1/3 or 1/2 of Dem voters voted for a Kucinich.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">It takes great strength of character to vote for a "fringe" candidate, the same strength it took blacks in the civil rights movement, except the only people getting hurt in the struggle are the uninsured. And, they already are hurting. But, they'd hurt less if they thought the party that's supposed to care for them was trying to change things.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">He sure makes sense to me.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Andrea</DIV></BODY></HTML>