Six billion and counting, and people are voting against birth control?

Criminal insanity.

Not criminal insanity...criminal greed !

More desititute people equal more cheap labor for global capitalists.

Nukes cure overpopulation.

Not just cheap labour, it's also the requirement that empires have for lots of soldiers. Prevention does work, but it works too well for a country whose leaders wish to rule the whole world...

McCain may well be able to win by standing as the not-Negro candidate who never attended any of Jeremiah Wright's sermons. Policy issues like abortion, Iraq, health care or the economy are too complicated for the media to cover.

Every month or two we see the tip of what I suspect is a very large iceberg when yet another vocal Bible-thumping Republican politician is found to be sharing his bed with male prostitutes, hookers, call girls or underage children. The same folks who preach to us about abstinence seem to honor it mostly in the breach. Children born with HIV or to lives of neglect, abuse and poverty are the legacy of this self-righteous indignation at the possibility of sexuality other than middle-class, marital, missionary position, heterosexual nocturnal, unprotected copulation. It's not just the Republicans. Remember when the philandering Bill Clinton indignantly fired the Surgeon General, Dr Joycelyn Elders, for saying that suppressing masturbation might actually lead to more teen pregnancies and STDs?

I am 72, old enough to remember was abortion was supposed to be illegal. Except for a few doctors prosecuted for performing abortions, no one was called to account.

The problem was not just abortions. There was very little information about preventing pregnancy. It was left to parents. Some stores would not even sell condoms, deeming it immoral to do so.

The result was that the rich and middle class (where better medical care and information was available) could avoid unwanted pregnancies or have safe but illegal abortions. The poor had few options.

I see the same pattern emerging now. First, you remove needed education and information. Then, you stigmatize family planning groups and disallow some abortions. Then, we're back in the dark ages.

The hypocrisy of this angers me. The religious right wants to pat itself on the back for having done away with evil. At the same time, they will ignore all the pain their decisions cause. Rather like the story of the Good Samaritan. They are the ones who pass by with the noses in the air.

The grandest hypocrisy is the degree to which those who espouse capital punishment and war/militarism use abortion as their moral fig leaf. In order to obfuscate the sheer brutality of their basic bottom line policies, they need a PR tactic that puts into question their true barbarism. By acting as champions of the supposedly sacrosanct unborn child, they have a "high" mission that takes the focus off their general path to more obvious willful homicide as endless war, torture, obscene domestic incarceration rates, etc. "Those baby lovers couldn't possibly be bad men!" It's PR, quite effective in manipulating those who do not think for themselves, i.e. the Fox "news" crowd.

McCain knows nothing more about the health care than the so-called leader he seeks to be. he and Clinton are simply an extension of the Bush policy of the last seven years and a hope to continue those same policies. They include the "politics of fear" as Obama speaks of and so many other means to lie to the American people as the gas tax scam. The Fox network and these two politicians along with the power brokers of the Rupert Murdoch style of revisionism in America and the world move gullible humanity back toward the 1952 Australian style of thought recently abrogated by the Australians in foreign affairs and economics that if continued will bring the world to extinction.

Clinton once again show her irresponsible thinking at any price to gain the American nomination to continue to lead the world to oblivion. I read with interest the comments of Americans. I consider myself a humanist and not one that has the USA tattooed to my backside although I gave three years to the military and so have a right to speak. Nationalism, is always based in me-firstism, let the rest of the world be damned mentality. Clinton is the new spokesperson for that idea and has now teamed up with the Fox network and the rabid so-called journalists who have helped diminish the America I once knew and fought to maintain. The way the rest of the world looks at the USA is colored by people like these at the highest levels of power.

The economic system that determines all peoples survival regardless of where they exist, also determines what a country will become, much of it the result of chance. In that regard the USA has been lucky, with well-worn imperialist ideas brought over with the Pilgrims. America has taken this country from the people who were here, the European model, without paying them. Some of us here know the story. The so called, "free market market system", formerly American capitalism, and now globalization into which it has now morphed. the US with its European allies has created the current means of controlling everything for the few. The G 8 has developed ever-greater means to develop these ideas and to take what it wants from the rest of the world and its own population.

The African Americans, the Africans, the Hispanics, Asians and Indians have been the slave classes that have built the white European and American wealth. The historic exploitation of the working classes of America brought from the world into its "melting pot" with the so-called freedoms and democratic ideals built from the blood spilled to form, compared to the European monarchies and divine kingship, so called Democracy unique in the world. The freedoms bought so dearly, were the first "Divine Kingship" of the "Robber Baron" and now, corporate power elitism.

To keep the masses quiet and to build the lives of Americans, consumer ideology supplanted education, the study human purpose, as a goal in itself. The economic forces, which have built their power, care little for human development and survival. They care largely for their continued power as an end in itself and for the few who have the most based on its protection with a huge military force, hence the oil wars in Iraq, this to support an auto centered disposable consumer society.

The expense of privilege in the community of nations may become the death of the globe and its entire people as a result of the American and European economic system, now out of control. Many American economists, Jeffrey Sachs, Joe Stiglitz, and others view these historical developments as a threat to global harmony and survival.

American wealth once had an altruistic quality about it. The post-World War II USA, developed the Marshal Plan and cared about the condition of the world. Now the top one percent, those who have taken so much, continue to be supported by the thirty percent of Americans who still believe George Bush, and his myth of global superiority at the expense of the rest of the world. It is clare that to many of Clinton's opinions continue the Bush doctrine, of unilateralism.

We sit on the edge of an environmental and economic disaster. This American system is out of control and the economic meltdown will continue regardless of who occupies the Oval office. The only difference is that Obama is intelligent enough to know that there are fundamental change needed in the way America and the so-called "free world" do business.
Rev Wright, simply addresses continued black slavery in a world of exploitation of all people led by the US and now the power elite in collusion with the government to continue the "American Dream" mentality, represented now by corporate multilateralism and their wealth and power. Corporate elitism cares for itself alone at the expense of all people, the environment, the human experiment, its freedoms, and so called democratic ideals which has become nothing more than an oligarchy.

We should not be too pejorative about Rev Wright who simply rails against the exploitive aspects of the Western mentality and points out the deficiency in the USA of evolved thinking toward the slave classes and the human species. He, having been able to experience directly because of his skin color these abuses is perhaps too angry which limits his effectiveness. His experience in seeing the wreckage of black America and his intelligence, has caused him to take up the defense of the disenfranchised.

America has a history of caring about others, once a genuine American direction, led by people, despite their failings like: The Kennedy's, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and so many others who died for their belief in a better America and a better world, caring about humanity.

The media who carries their continued assault against those, who would in any way, attempt to include different thinking to bear on the so called "American Dream" which has become the world's nightmare must be seen by the masses for what it has become. The media must begin to understand its roll as an objective commentator to the necessary changes that must be made to the USA and the world if humanity is to survive.

The media above all must be changed once again to give democratic exposure to all important ideas. It must present an understanding of the complex thought needed to be brought to bear on global complex issues of survival. A departure from the simplistic superficial treatment ad-nauseam we witness each day which passes for news presented by the Barby-Doll class of newsreader called journalist.