Gotta say if all this righteous indignation at Dubya was directed to whatever would CHANGE something is a decent point. Martin: I know down deep you enjoy all this but you make some good points and a lot of folks get all focused on HOW you make 'em-not what they say. As for me, doesn't bother me one way or another. But that's a diff topic.

So--I have a legit question here: if you could replace Bush with whoever ya wanted--WHO would that be??? I ain't sayin' he's the bag o' chips and all that--but who the he** is out there these days in the U.S.? Hillary? Leibermann? Gore? McCain? Obama or whatever his name is...?

Easy to complain but I don't see much thoughtful "here's whats better"-other than some dopey thing like "anyone!" or whatever. Now I'm not defending wars or oil prices or neocons, whatever. Just asking: watcha got that would be a BIG improvement to you? Frankly I think we have a real leadership crisis goin' on here...and no one seems to be stepping up to the plate to use the baseball metaphor. See that the Canadians got their own thing going on this now...so folks must be pretty dumb I guess. I really wonder who's gonna be up in a coupla years for Prez here...won't be Geo. W. (his brother maybe?).