There was any number of 3-ton elephants lurking around that stage at Ol' Miss the other night that neither candidate dared acknowledge.  This is an especially apt metaphor as most of the issues and controversies that may or may not be debated in these rounds will have been instigated and exacerbated by Republicans. 

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I want to get this out tonight before I have a chance to read how they of the mainstream media think it went and how they think I should think it all went.

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A few days before Gen. David Petraeus confirmed for Congress how overworked the military is in Iraq, President Bush was in Croatia talking about the significance of inviting that country and Albania to join NATO.

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Facing the Behemoth

"It was Hobbes who made both the Leviathan and the Behemoth popular. His Leviathan is the analysis of a state, that is a political system of coercion in which vestiges of the rule of law and individual rights are still preserved. His Behemoth, or the Long Parliament, however, discussing the English civil war of the seventeenth century, depicts a non-state, a chaos, a situation of lawlessness, disorder, and anarchy.

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(With apologies to Garrison Keillor.) OK, folks, welcome to full-blown oligarchy–government that socializes the losses of big business while privatizing the profits and promoting corporate welfare through gigantic contracts for military build-ups and outdated energy plans. It’s a form of government not unlike, um, well, dare I say… oh, never mind, comparisons are odious. Google oligarchy and come up with your own examples.

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When the bottom line is threatened, corporations typically show little concern for holding the line on political principles such as freedom of expression. In capitalism, freedom is too often just another word for maximizing profits.

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To hear the media pundits and presidential candidates tell it, you’d think Adam Smith has been president for the last eight years and, with a Congress full of free-market advocates, had enacted an agenda of full-blown laissez-faire.

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