Here’s a link to an article that appeared this week in the Free Press.

Net Neutrality is still a huge concern to those of us little guys who are depending on the internet for the free and open sharing of ideas, and, not to mention it has become the livelihood of millions of people these days.

“There is a huge turnout at today’s public hearing in Boston on the future of the Internet. Hundreds of concerned citizens have arrived in droves to speak out on the importance of an open Internet.” Internet Neutrality

I’m thinking back to when I switched sides.  Having been a life long Republican, first voting for Goldwater, I trusted the Repubs up through the 2000 election.

At the time, I thought that Gore had too much of the deer-in-the-headlights look…and we were coming off of 8 years of the Clintons.  I’d seen enough.  And “compassionate conservative, blah, blah, blah” kept me on that side.  Then came the attacks on us and the war in Afg. I was still with them.

But the leap into Iraq was too much.  Plenty of people were advising that we would be poking a stick into a relatively quiet hornet’s nest.  Sure enough, all hell broke  loose and now we don’t know what to do with it.  And, yes, my personal beliefs are that war need not be the only way to solve differences, in fact should be the last possible choice.

So leaping forward to now, I’m faced with the possibility of having to vote for another Clinton, or having Obama. Give me Obama any day, and as quickly as possible.  As a country, do we really need either a Bush or a Clinton in the white house for 36 years?  I don’t think so.

Yes, we need change and we need hope.  Not fear. And it would be fine if Gore were to step in and take the nomination in a deadlocked convention.

Yes, I’m still here. I got too disgusted to post for awhile, but I have been watching what is going on. We had the ‘06 election which went pretty well.

Unfortunately, the congress has squandered the momentum they had built up from the election. They just continue to allow the prez to just keep on bullying them and fear mongering them into submission. Look at the current flap over holding the telecom industry’s feet to the fire for aiding in illegal wiretapping.

What about holding the administration accountable for their actions, holding individuals in contempt for not appearing before Congress to testify, eg?

Personally, I’m very tired of listening to the prez fear monger the American people into giving up our Constitutional rights in the name of security. Anyway, I’ll be adding some more as the election season pushes on.