So You Say You Want a Revolution

Did you receive the email today from the Kucinich campaign? Have you heard about the campaign's plans to hold webcast town hall meetings on the constitution? It made me think of what would have happened had the Framers been able to do all of this with technology. What would the Constitutional Convention have looked like?
As Gore Vidal noted in The Nation recently, Dennis Kucinich is about the same height as James Madison was. Not a bad comparison to make, I thought, and then the email arrived announcing the newer Constitutional Convention and I am thinking what if we could have been at the first one with our video cameras and been able to post it on YouTube so the whole world could have seen and heard what the original Framers had in mind and what they debated and watch the unfolding of the document that has shaped so much of our lives?
Over the next 10 weeks, there is something similar about to happen for us presented by the campaign and I intend to watch it and critique it as I think anyone in their right mind should be doing. Having had to watch in this kind of helpless, dreamlike state as the Bush administration trampled and tore at the Constitution, remaking it in the image they wanted it to be in, now is the time to once again learn what it really says and how the checks and balances of a truly democratic country is supposed to work.
As with all such ideas/concepts/documents there is much that is said that is worthless and was not meant to be but was put in because it is a document debated by humans not some extraterrestrials who know better than we do how to run a country. It contains the kinds of flaws that any human made article is going to contain. However, what Bush and his allies objected to is the constraints it put on their power and that is something we all now need to watch as we move forward in our time here. How has the lesson of the executive seen in the terms of the Bush Framers been or will be passed down to the next president?
I daresay that if it is a Republican presidency we will see much more of the same with even more vigor and if it is a number of the current candidates from the Democratic side it will also be much more of the same.
I think I can safely guarantee that if it is a Kucinich presidency it will not be more of the same but a radical retaking of the very real document that formed this country's government and how it is to govern and relate to its citizens. Let's all watch and see what the talk will be about and let's also talk about it with some concern for what has happened to the Constitution by those who have been sworn to uphold it.