I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

American politics is always an open competition.

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

Is there decency left in American politics?

The political power of the purse string has a place in America only when there are lots of little purses, and has no place in an American society when it exist only in the hands of a super rich minority. Monopoly is anti-American and anti our original reasons for independence from Britain.