The Tampa Tribune has written a great story on Unity08 and our vision to win the White House with a bipartisan Unity Ticket. “In a country spinning apart from centrifugal politics, they [the Unity08 founders] contend, the center is where consensus, common sense and political cohesion can be found,” the story reads. Check it out on the Tampa Tribune website.
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This is good. It was very informative and brought positive attention to Unity08!
Bob W. Hargis
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A balanced ticket of smart people, moderate and geographically spread who are for environmental issues, as non-partisan as one can find AND
gender mixed with good common sense plus experience with REAL people in this VERY troubled world.
I enjoyed the article. The piece also raised good questions that need to be answered about the effectiveness of this movement.
The only way Unity08 will have any true clout is if the existing parties/candidates see an early groundswell of quantifiable support coming from this organization. To be a factor on election day, we must be a cohesive force of change today.
For this to happen, the movement must stage a physical convention and/or meeting, and either nominate or confirm a ticket, or pledge support to existing candidates in return for some form of consideration. And the movement must decide what our true mission statement is: to either attempt to elect an alternative candidate to office, or to influence the selection process of the existing parties.
It is unrealistic to expect to do both.
In my opinion, Unity08 is bypassing one form of political clout - namely money - to instead focus on creating another form of clout by using the power of the internet. This new unique process would be able to mobilize a huge number of deliverable votes for a yet unamed candidate who would promise to "buy in" to the Unity08 mission statement, and would pledge to adhere to the principles of centerist politics.
The above is the very definition of an advocacy group - not a third party, and it is a goal that is both reachable and desirable.
Anything past that goal constitutes a movement toward a third party - and if that is the true mission of this movement, then it is bound to fail unless there is a cohesive political network in every state with the aim of electing candidates to office at the state and local level.
If there is ever going to be a valid third party in this country, it will be built from the bottom up... in my opinion, nothing, not even the internet, will change that fact.
We deplore the policy in vogue in both political parties to ignore the center and court the base - but the only realistic way to change the process is to create our own bigger and more powerful base - a bipartisian group of moderates with real political muscle.
If Unity08 is to be a success, then the movement must pare down our mission statement to something that is realistic and attainable; the idea of actually electing a hand-picked president and vice-president based upon the current poorly-defined organizational umbrella is a fantasy.
To be effective, even as an advocacy group, Unity08 must influence the presidential selection process by showing our collective strength sometime between today and the start of the two major party conventions. After that, it will be too late.
I applaud the idea of a centerist political movement; it is long overdue, but we need to move up the organizational timetable and more clearly define our goals if we hope to achieve measurable results.
We should be in contact with representatives from both parties, not only to declare our intentions, but also to identify where our potential support is in the congress and senate. We should not ask these people to break with their party, we should ask them to embrace the principals that we stand for as an overriding goal.
The moderates in both parties can embrace our values without defecting from their existing party, and they can show support for us as a way of standing up to be counted. They will only do that (and mean it)if our collective support can insulate them from losing their seat come election time.
Jeff C
Russ Feingold (Dem, Wisconsin) and Jim Webb (ex-Rep, Virginia).
For those of you wishing for a Unity ticket with McCain (Republican) and Lieberman (Con4Lie), you may be disappointed to learn that Jomentum might continue his rightward shift all the way to the Republican Party.
Perhaps the pro-war uniters will next consider Jane Harmon?
CAN WE FIND CANDIDATES FOR AMERICA AND ITS CITIZENS:
I DON'T BELIEVE WE CAN WITH OUT A THIRD PARTY, AND A STRONG
LOBBY TO FOCUS ON AMERICAN INTEREST.
LOOK WHERE AIPAC & ISRAELI INTEREST HAVE TAKEN US. OF
COURSE THEY BOUGHT OUT CONGRESS AND THE MEDIA FIRST.
THERE WILL NOT BE IMPEACHMENT.
OR ANY ACCOUNTABILITY:
TO MUCH HONOR AMONGEST CRIMINALS AND THIEVES.
As one criminal stated to the others,
Impeachment is off the table.
Only one congressman will step up. Mr. Dennis Kucinich.
I have posted 350 letters on congress.org. My own money,
which I have very little of.
Hoping for some change. Like
alot of others. Helping to bring
about a mandate from the people.
As every one can clearly see.
What we as American people
insist on does not matter.
Only the corrupt money, eletus
status, and foreign interest matters. Either side of the Isle.
I quit, I don't make $250,000 + a
year. Thus will never get involved again. I could hardly spell correctly in the beginning
any how. ( High-school drop out.)
There is no benefit for me or anyone making less then the magic $250,000, to vote, voice
an opinion, or to get involved
what so ever.
Government for the corrupt,
rich, and AIPAC members.
Simply said organized crime
people. If that does not include you stay home and watch from now on. American government.
a soap: ( AS YOUR STOMACH TURNS)
THE END FOR ME... GOOD LUCK TO THE REST !!
Accountability is a concept in ethics with several meanings. It is often used synonymously with such concepts as answerability, responsibility. THINGS OF THE PAST.
ONCE A HUMANE NATION, ONCE MORAL !!
HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW ?? FEEL DIFFERENT??
WE WERE ONCE A HUMANE NATION:::
OKLAHOMA, CALABINE, 911,
VIRGINIA TECH.
LOOK AT THE PAIN FOR AMERICA,
THE STRESS, FEEL THE LOSS AS
WE ALL HAVE.
FEEL THE ANGER, THE PAIN, THE
HATE FOR THOSE RESPONCIPLE
FOR SUCH ACTS OF VIOLENCE.
NOW THINK. HOW WOULD YOU FEEL ABOUT A PRE-EMPTIVE WAR
AGAINST YOU, FOR NO REAL
REASON.(FALSE LIES)
YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS KILLED,
ONE MILLION INNOCENT IRAQIS
KILLED. HOMES AND COMMUNITIES BLOWN TO BITS.
ALL INFRASTRUCTURE GONE.
WATER, FOOD, ROADS, UTILITIES
GONE.
THINK, HOW WOULD YOU FEEL
IN LEBANON, IRAQ, PALESTINE,
EGYPT, AND JORDAN.
60 YEARS OF HAVING YOUR LAND TAKEN AWAY, OF AGGRESSION
AGAINST YOU, YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS.
TO WATCH A FOREIGN LOBBY
NEGOTIATE WITH THE WORLDS SUPER POWER AGAINST YOU.
HOW DO YOU REALLY FEEL WATCHING IT.???
DO YOU REALLY WONDER WHY YOU ARE HATED BY THE REST OF THE WORLD.??
YOU SIT BACK AND ALLOW YOUR
CORRUPT GOVERNMENT TO DO SUCH A THING. IS THIS THE AMERICA YOU GREW UP IN.??
WILL YOU CONTINUE TO TRUST,
TO BELIEVE A WORD FROM SUCH
LEADERS. OR BELIEVE THE
MEDIA PROPAGANDA.
???????????????????????????????????
THINK--HAS ANY OF THIS BEEN MORAL, NECESSARY.
WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO OCCUPY ANOTHER. FOR WHAT
FOR WHO. ?? WHY???
CONSIDER OTHERS PAIN & LOSS
MUCH LARGER THEN YOURS OR MINE.
WHO IS GUILTY, WHO SHOULD BE IMPEACHED???
WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING,
WHEN WE HAVE ONLY ONE ALLIE
IN THIS WORLD NOW.
ARE THEY REALLY AN ALLIE ??
PROSECUTE THE CRIMES COMMITTED!!!
THE WAR WAS LOST, BEFORE IT STARTED.
Hypocrisy is the act of pretending or claiming to have beliefs, feelings,
morals or virtues that one does not truly possess or practice. THE
REPUBLICAN ZIONIST MOVEMENT.
Is it far better for you to get DRUNK and
go into denial, then to stand-up and FACE
the Truth, say nothing about speaking it for a
change.
We have not witnessed anything resembling
Faith Based Morality out of this administration for the last four years.
Be not deceived, GOD is not MOCKED :
For what so ever a man soweth, that shall he
also REAP !!
WE ALL SUFFER AND REAP WHAT THIS ADMINISTRATION SOWED.
THE BLAME WILL REMAIN WITH BUSH, CHENEY, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!!
THE NATION IS NOT SPLIT. 72% AGREE ON WITHDRAW. 28% STAY THE
COURSE BEHIND THE LOSERS.