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As an open minded free thinker, I feel your pain Lydia. I personally resist the temptation to follow the crowd and buy into the Wall Street manufactured spin that is fed to us via our corporate owned television programs or newspapers. Like so many Americans, I was elated when President Obama was elected as president. Here, standing before us was someone we believed represented the vast majority of Americans, as the Occupiers like to say, the 99%. I watched his inauguration and the festivities well into the evening. The feeling that America was going to be liberated from the fascist agenda that the Bush administration had pushed so hard to implement welled within my psyche. And then slowly, the elation was replaced with horror, when it became evident that he was the Democratic face of the elite globalists bent on destroying America. 

"Oh, his hands have been tied by the GOP majority Congress," is the favorite line given by cult progressives that can't see the truth in front of them due to the fear that their beloved party is anything but the "only choice." Do they forget that the GOP took the majority control after two years of Obama in the Oval Office? If Obama had been delivering on his campaign promises we would not be faced with the current gridlock.

Neither former President Bush nor current President Obama considers the US Constitution as the law of the land. Both have openly trampled on the letter of the law and engaged in a campaign to literally erase any existence of civil liberties from legislation. I had my reservations about Obama as 2011 came to a close and then he drove the nail into the coffin with the signing of the NDAA, which now allows Americans to be arrested without charge and detained indefinitely without trial. This does not bode well for the peace and freedom of Americans now that he has authorized 30,000 drones to occupy US airspace to spy on citizens of this country. Who gets to determine who is a terrorist and what is a terrorist plot? Exercising your first amendment right to free speech, assembly and to have the government address one's grievance can now land you in jail. 

Today, as I write this comment, we are facing the threat of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty that will completely destroy our economy. Remember when Clinton convinced America that NAFTA was the panacea for economic woes? And now he admits he was wrong. Can we really afford another mistake from the White House and Congress? I don't hear Obama speaking against TPP, do you?

I can go on and on why I was prepared to sit out the Presidential Election this November. Really, I was not going to vote. I think that Romney would make a horrible President and I will not vote to continue the abomination of an administration under the governance of Obama. As a registered Independent (No Party Preference or Declined to State) I do not have a party affiliation as I like having the freedom to vote my conscience. As more Americans wake up to the fact that our current duopoly is responsible for the plutocracy that is crippling this country, more voters are registering without party affiliation. Now the question is, "Will they have the courage and fortitude to vote for a presidential candidate that has not been bought by Wall Street and the elite globalists?"  As a person with progressive values I refuse to vote for the lesser of the two evils, or as some have said, the more effective of the two evils. Needless to say, it was a very happy day, when I found online via a Facebook ad the man I will vote for in November. I hope your readers that live in the Twin City area will take advantage of the awesome  opportunity to meet Rocky Anderson. When you hear Rocky speak you will feel it within every fiber of your being that he needs to be our next President of the United States. For the rest of the readers, please do yourself and our country a big favor by learning more about Rocky Anderson and then please vote your conscience. As Ralph Nader says, "Rocky is the candidate of conscience for the voter of conscience." If we all vote our conscience we can end the fascist regime in this country and do so without the bloodshed experienced by other nations fighting for democracy.