Megalomaniac Is Born

The power mad cloak their intentions, they always couch their plans in what they can do for you on their rise to power. Rare is the autocratic who does not pretend that he is the champion of the people. Hugo Chavez-the defender of the poor, Putin, battler of the oligarchs, are among the leaders today who would never claim to want to rule for power's sake, but in the event, have demonstrated that they are in it for themselves. America is rife with top down little Napoleons with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Obama all breathing the dictator's contemptuous instincts, and foolish Republicans like McCain willing to go along to protect the process. It is long past time that the Republicans showed some backbone like South Carolina's Joe Wilson-the stakes are too high not to, this is no tea party or school debating society, this is our freedoms and our very lives that the power mad are bent on stealing.