Put together John Kerry's, William Clinton's and Joe Biden's powerful critique of John McCain bizarre NeoRepublican Raiders of the Lost Ark, and one is looking at a destroyed Republican Ideology.

How so simple: speak the truth to power I suppose is one answer. But another is this: Biden and his team mates have placed a powerful and complex but absolutely essential understanding before the American citizen: a solid Strategic foreign policy for the United States cannot be had unless America launches the endeavor of Oil Independence and a new Energy Economy.

And when you look clearly and carefully you will see that so-called "American" corporations like Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, AMOCO are as much as part of ideological problem of getting America into the 21st century alive as Iranian nukes or Russian tanks.

There are no longer any "American" corporations. They are globalized and consider themselves above any nation state.

AND experienced political leaders have HANDED Obama a workable framework for his candidacy. But now this knee-jerk Hope and Change junkie has to get off his meaningless phraseology hobby horse and talk about issues of substance and push hard on them.

He's already won over all the mindless drones he can with the Hope and Change mantra. Now he has to connect with Joe and Josaphina Average and they don't give a doodly flop about meaningless political mantras . . . not when it is their ability to meet their monthly bills that is at stake.

I absolutely share your sentiment; it is a true and critical point: the DNC and Stadium eventology will not allow the spelling out of programs of course. These are going to be cast and recast in the campaign clash with McCain. Clearly the Demo party elites will try and control the potency of the domestic economic recession to become cast as a battle of populist class warfare. How, for example, does "America" actually get "into the 21st century" with a world leading Energy Revolution without dealing with the Robber Baronage of Exxon-Mobil by nationalizing oil as a strategic national [not private corporate] resource? As well, the difficulty of having a very strong military that can face-off Putin without military spending directly spiking large stagflation [i.e., inflation plus joblessness that decreases consumer spending on Chinese crap]? Tough corners to turn smoothly now that Bush's Nation Building in Iraq has gutted the national economy. I believe that the depth of the national emergency we are in will come with deepening global recession...then some changes of the magnitude of a New Deal on Energy can perhaps begin. But of course, it is not Obama or Biden's fault that they cannot get in the Executive Branch by such dire analysis. So it will be softened. Yet on the other side a new energy economy of serious "greening" can bring new educational programs, new training programs, new capital investment, new jobs. "Green" energy has too often be equated [by those corporados who would crush it] as something dreamily idealistic and unmarketable. Nuclear power is so profoundly unmarketable it has to be massively federally subsidized to get one plant built and another shut down.

But you are right...I quickly fatigue with the vague cheer leader mantras of both parties and the conventions filled with party-monied elites. ...very tiresome indeed.