I'm posting a long quote from a New York Times book review here, because the quote says something important about the future of our nation.

There is no happy ending to this sordid and shameful story. Despite growing political pressure, despite Supreme Court decisions challenging the detainment policy, despite increasing revelations of the once-hidden program that have shocked the conscience of the world, there is little evidence that the secret camps and the torture programs have been abandoned or even much diminished. New heads of the Defense and Justice Departments have resisted addressing the torture issue, aware that dozens of their colleagues would face legal jeopardy should they do so. And the presidential candidates of both parties have so far shown little interest in confronting the use of torture or recommitting the country to the Geneva Conventions and to America’s own laws and traditions.

Now I wonder -- is that lack of interest in confronting the use of torture or recommitting the nation to abiding by international law really something we could have expected from a different Democratic nominee?

And is that why the Village destroyed them all?

Wapo on the Dem candidates:
Biden
Dodd
Kucinich.
Richardson

Those are the "minor" Democratic candidates, in the media's eye. Coverage here at Corrente about how Clinton and Edwards were treated in the media has been far fuller than that given these Presidential hopefuls.

I won't go into the GOP candidates' media coverage. It's Sunday, and while I'm not the most observant of spiritual people, some things just desecrate the concept of a Sabbath.

It's time for all of us, as citizens, to demand better than the dumbing-down and theocracy-rising "standards" the GOP has been shoving down our collective throats since 1980. They've had 28 years to push their agenda. If we want our country back, we have to do more.