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I don't want too have too many days and nights like last night or mornings like this one!

It's time to throw the question open to the panel. I don't claim to be a saint. That's not what democratic republican capitalism is about. But it certainly isn't about UNITED FRUIT.

The (gender-neutral) boys are scared today. They've been scared for three weeks now. President Obama has answered half of the questions. There are none so blind as those that will not see. The "New Democratic" United States Of America is not a social democratic paradise. It is a dying empire whose last Emperor happens to have some charm and sex appeal. That's it. What is so f**kin hard to understand? How much evidence do people need? How much "time" is supposed to go by before he takes off his false face and reveals the true mask beneath? What for f**k's sake does "give him a chance" mean?

Here are the answers to half the questions: fiscal and monetary insanity and government growth beyond comprehension, no help for the poor, working-class, middle-class, small businessperson, entrepreneur nor especially not THE VETERAN, escalation in South Asia, continued war in Iraq, continued Zionism, the re-re-think on GITMO back to the Bush/Cheney concept, the "war on drugs," the only nation without single-payer health care, the only nation that incarcerates children with adults, the top of the league tables in executions in both relative and absolute terms, the anti-Mexico wall, USAPATRIOT2, REALID, confiscatory gun laws and taxation, the 3-card Monte of The Nanny State, and the affirmation of government position on "decency" standards in media. End of story. Those are half the questions. Asked and answered. Obama has told us where he stands. In George W. Bush's footprints.

Let's move on.

Let's get down to the bargaining table because appealling to a dictator's better angels is not the way to go. It's a waste of everyone's time. Barack Obama, but, oddly enough, for Nancy Pelosi's efforts would be a dictator.

Every other cohort has its own series of remaining questions. I and mine have a bunch. I can, however, read the writing on the wall and would like to keep it simple. Here we go. Here's the question: On behalf of the EU and non-affiliated European nations, on behalf of South Africa, on behalf of the FSU, on behalf of the Channel Islands, on behalf of Cyprus, on behalf of the UAE, on behalf of Macau, on behalf of the Caribbean, and on behalf of Central and South America...WHAT DOES EVERYONE HERE ON THE HELLAC PANEL BELIEVE IT WILL COST TO GET BARACK OBAMA (not the Wingnuts) TO BACK THE F**K UP?

Simple question. Complicated to answer. Let's answer it with a money figure, a territory figure, a commodity figure, a real property figure, a debt forgiveness figure or some combination thereof.

My suggestion would be to start by getting the USA, PRC, Saudi Arabia, the current Executives Of The EU, APAC (not AIPAC!), OPEC, pan South Asia, and MERCOSUR together in Belgium at The Hague and begin asking in the presence of those that could well take that man and put him away for 25 years. Let's just talk to start. How much?

Everyone's going to the mattresses and the barricades otherwise. Everyone. I've lived in and done business in too many countries now in which the question was ALWAYS "how are the Americans and their bullsh*t laws going to f**k us?"

What do experts think Obama would accept in exchange for getting together with Congress and formally turning the USA into a self-contained republic?

Don't tell me about Wall Street or various constituent American sub-groups. At 69% approval, 61 seats in the Senate and a House majority this is down to a guy my age who -- hero or putz -- couldn't get within 30 points of the only real progressive he ever faced in a campaign, Bobby Rush.

The representative from the INTERNATIONAL non-partisan business community yields the balance of his time.