The Politics of Hopelessness! BY: David Sirota
"You were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart." - Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton on 1/22/08.The exchange lasted about 3 seconds - if you flipped the channel for a moment, you might have missed it. That was the amount of time the two leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for president spent talking about the corporate takeover of our government - the issue that almost singularly drives American politics and that is at the core of our country's most fundamental problems. Download complete article in PDF format.