I don't want to mislead you with visions of partisan success. My website is growing by leaps and bounds more on the principle of the field of dreams than by partisan adherents ("Build it and they will come.") I thought it might help to focus protest to the government lackies of the Fat Cats, Theocrats and Dixiecrats who have taken over the Republican Party and greatly seduced the New Democrats, without focusing on some ambitious individual (like the Greens on Nader) who might seriously run for President, but who, out of resentment for his throwing the election to Bush, will forever be a "personna non possibilia." To actually run for President is the last thing I would ever want to do.

I figured since I am clearly not presidential timber like Gore's cigar store Indian (although my Grammy was literally the last of the Mohicans), people could seriously gather round to form a consensus on policies without getting wrapped up in personalities! Once we have a movement with a consensus, we can see who provides the best leadership, who has the best talents needed to lead us in the future. Hopefully, we will not fixate on the aggressive self-promoter, but on the most enthusiastic and capable cause promoter, the woman or man who does the most to serve the people, the man who we choose to follow and then make our leader.

I am a Philosopher, a thinker, rather than a lover or fighter--but even further from having the leadership and administrative abilities or fire in the gut a real candidate would have to have. While I personally think that we need someone who will lead our country as a personal sacrifice such as I would be required to do, I also know that person needs talents I lack. I am honest. That is an almost disabling quality in politics. I know it is possible to be basically honest and still diplomatic--but unfortunately, I am brash.

I do believe that any movement to serve the people needs both those like me who will tell it as it is, and others who will put it so it doesn't seem so unsettling that it stirs needless controversy. I am simply, at this point, working out the political implications of my philosophy and of my understanding of our social, political, legal and Constitutional history.

I do encourage others to get involved in an ongoing discussion of fundamental social, political, legal and even philosophical issues underlying practical politics by contributing well thought out pieces for me to post and link that may interest people with interests in mulling over such ideas.

Some of the implications of my understanding of the role of the various branches of our Constitutional Government may at time sound extremist to some people. I voice them precisely because they are so out of fashion that many people now have forgotten that they were views once hlp bysome of our greatest presidents and Supreme Court Justices.

It is not that I think that politically, now, Presidents could do what Washington, Lincoln, Teddy or Franlin Roosevelt did, or what Chief Justices like John Marshall and Earl Warren, or justices like William O. Douglas or Thurgood Marshall, advised. But I think it is important to keep people realizing the options and potentials toward which we may aspire. I do not expect or want total agreement, but spirited, informed, logical argument that may help all of us learn and possibly come to a general consensus in the long run, while learning the limits of any such consensuses.

I do seem to agree with a lot of what you say, and I do look forward to any of your submissions to post on my new sub-page for the Carrion Noose and Carrion Moose Call. Submit any posts to me at edromar@hotmail.com and you may view contributions by going to http://geocities.datacellar.net/chiefbullmoose

Once here/there, go down below the big logo (which takes awhile to load) for the Carrion Noose and Moose Call. There you will find the list of articles which have not yet been archived. I will try to create some uniformity by posting them all on this same "paper texture" background with blue or red text against a white background. Any short comments for publication can be put at the end of the main page on the sign-in sheets. I'll try to check them out often enough, but I often don't even know when the sign-in has stopped working. Hope to hear from you, Ed.

(Oh, thanks for any Links. I'll try to reciprocate ASAP.)