I'm like anyone else, Kat. I have to call it as I see it.

You say that Palin's a flash in the pan. That will be true if the Republicans lose. If the Democrats lose, then Obama will have been a flash in the pan. That's how it always works in politics which is mainly the art of fashioning and marketing popular myths to keep the public divided, yet enthused and onside to once again rubber stamp their acceptance of the status quo.

The status quo is that you have 2 great ruling parties neither of which truly represents or serves the general public...and they can't, because they are the tools of larger concerns and those larger concerns are the corporate people who fund them and who fashion the myths which are marketed. One of the purposes of those myths is to maintain the world's largest military-industrial effort at full production by whatever means possible...and that requires more warfare and more threats of war.

I don't see myself as part of that system at all, so I can't support it. I'm looking at it entirely from the outside. Remember that I am not an American. I view your elections with trepidation as someone in a separate country, a country which, like the whole world, has very grave reasons to be concerned about what the USA will do in the next four years.

I'd much rather Obama gets elected than McCain, because the world in general would get along better with Obama, I think. It would be a chance to defuse a lot of international tension. I will not be overly surprised if he doesn't, however. Nor will I be overly surprised if he does. It could go either way at this point.