2008 is not 1968

Telly viewers and radio listners you're in for a year of nostalgia and bogus comparisons. 2008 is not 1968 although many will find a lot of parallels. 2008 is different from 1968, and not the least that murder, assassination, a generation of the young worldwide believed in a groundswell which would wash away the old men of the past. It didn't.
The 2008 elections in the United States may bring the Democrats back to White House, but the Reagan revolution has tilted the country towards the very rich and privileged. And money plays a role in everything especially in the wads of Yankee dollars greatly discounted on world markets funding all the candidates war chests. Some pundits talk of the great discontent among the American electorate but where are the demostrations, the outcries, the pulling on the donkey tails in the Houses of Congress for change. Nary a world is heard. The country has turned against Bush's lying war in Iraq, but no one until now--John Edwards--has had the courage as a candidate to say that elected he would bring the boys and girls home. The others play footsy with the issue and Guiliani demogagically is calling for a 'surge' in Afghanistan. With whose bodies pray tell?
Voters may surprise us in the privacy of the voting booth, but that's a good 11 months away. It is time for them to put the feet of candidates and Congress to the fire for change and for sanity in the way wealth is distributed in America and foreign policy is conducted. And boot the neo cons and the Bushies on to the dust heap of history!