Trick Question: How Many Candidates in 2008 Presidential Election?

If you use the TV, most newspapers or most internet "news" sites and if you listen to or read the political ads and spam filling our mail boxes, the answer is two: Barack Obama and John McCain.

Here though, is the trick. The answer is one that the mainstream media as well as the Democrat and Republican parties want to keep a secret as much as possible.

There are actually TEN, yes 10 candidates for running for President this November! Could it be that the "powers that be" don't want mainstream U.S.A. to know that they have choices beside Obama-McCain?

I hit most of the mainstream news media sites tonight, and only Fox News showed that Bob Barr (Libertarian Party) and Ralph Nader (Independent) are candidates in addition to Obama and McCain. However, they still show only 40% of the candidates.

CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, New York Times, Washington Post, USA today all promise complete coverage, yet only cover 20% of the candidates!

Now, when I went to school, 40% would have earned me a big fat F!



So despite all the nifty color charts and tables comparing Obama and McCain, the public isn't given a chance to compare the choices of the sitting parties against the rest of the field. Gee, I wonder why the other candidates have problems raising money and getting out their word?

Some of these candidates have had some very GOOD things to say and offer. They deserve a chance to be heard by the voters. How many were invited to the Presidential debates? Having a series of Presidential debates but only inviting 20% of the candidates is rather like declaring a sports team "world champions" but only having teams from one or two countries compete. (Think World Series for example)

Ok, there's the list of candidates for the 2008 Presidential Election:

Chuck Baldwin - Constitition Party
Bob Barr - Libertarian
Roger Calero - Socialist Workers Party
Alan Keyes - America's Independent Party
Gloria La Riva - Party for Socialism and Liberation
John McCain - Republican
Cynthia McKinney - Green Party
Brian Moore - Socialist Party
Ralph Nader - Independant
Barack Obama - Democrat

As I've said before, we the voters just keep reelecting the "other" party hoping that they'll be better than the current one. John McCain, Barack Obama and Joe Biden are all sitting Senators and have been in position to create the change they're promising. As President they'll have less influence for change, but that is the basis of their campaigns.

The country is the way it is because the Democrat and Republican parties want it that way. If they didn't they'd have changed things already.

If we voters really wanted change, we wouldn't keep electing the same parties to office. The names and faces change but the platforms remain the same.

If they really wanted to give us change, Obama-Biden and McCain-Palin would both remove themselves from this election and put their support behind one of the other eight Presidential candidates.

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