I am perfectly willing to be classified as contrarian especially in politics, and as a true independent who has voted in various primaries for all the parties, with little respect for any of them. Having thus stated, I never vote for the same name. We do not need another Bush, Clinton, Blunt, Kennedy, or etc.. Leadership is not an inherited trait.

Has anybody noticed how the rhetoric from some pols (mostly the right) about immigration is the same as pre-civil war about slavery. "Industry will fail without this labor" or "Americans won't do this kind of job".

Since everything a pol says in public is either payoffs for funds or an attempt to raise more, media should always question their motives. Demo's say they want to raise minimum wage to help working families with the impression they are referring to fast food workers and such, however fast food workers do not contribute to campaigns. Most labor union contracts are tied to the minimum wage and an increase would result in a nice raise under the table and a payoff for their support. What surprises me is that no one in the media ever raises this point or the fact that illegal immigration is killing the labor movement. One would think that union flacks would be more interested in stopping the flow of cheap labor than in pricing their members out of a job.