A snippet of conversation overheard from small children at the cafe beneath my office.

Quoted in sequence:
"Ok, thanks for flying Airtran Airlines."
"Oh, man -- it's the cops! What do I do?"
"Lie."

My heart swelled with pride, and I felt hope for the future.

Interesting read: political!

http://www.unity08.com/believe

Unity08 believes that neither of today’s major parties reflects the aspirations, fears or will of the majority of Americans. Both have polarized and alienated the people. Both are unduly influenced by single-issue groups. Both are excessively dominated by money.

For most of the 20th Century, the contest for the U.S. presidency was waged over those “in the middle.” Recent Presidential elections, however, have not been focused on the middle but on the turnout of each party’s special interest groups – with each party’s “base” representing barely ten percent of the American people.

We believe that, while the leaders of both major parties are well intentioned people, they are trapped in a flawed system – and that the two major parties are today simply neither relevant to the issues and challenges of the 21st Century nor effective in addressing them.

As a result, most Americans have not been enthusiastic about the choices for President in recent elections, the key issues they ran on, or the manner in which the campaigns were conducted.

Therefore Unity08 will act to assure that an alternative ticket is presented to the American voters in 2008.

Sure, it's saying what many independents and 'third' parties have been saying, but a different approach. Not saying I'd support it myself, necessarily, but the variety of choices and injection of new thoughts is important. I'm reminded of a post by daoistraver a while back, discussing the 'color' of various political parties.