I get your point, Wesley.

But I don't think I'm a better man than Obama. I just don't agree with a good deal of what he's done...or not done...since he became president. That doesn't make me a better man than him, and I wouldn't even begin to make any assumptions about any one of us (meaning me, you or Obama) being "better" than the other. I think it's dangerous and illusory to make such assumptions.

That doesn't stop a lot of people from doing it, of course. ;-D They do it a great deal. But I don't. I don't think I'm "better" than anyone....matter of fact, I am my OWN number 1 critic in the entire world, and it would probably be a good idea if I stopped judging myself so stringently. (But that's another topic.)

I fully understand why you laugh at the vanity of people's ravings about politics on the Internet. I do that too. And then I rave about politics myself at some point. ;-) In other words, I too suffer from the almost universal human weakness of blathering on about stuff that I haven't personally done anything about. It helps ease my tension. It gives my mind something to chew on and my fingers something to type.

I suspect that birds and monkeys do something fairly similar when they gather in the trees for the afternoon "yak-fest". C'est la vie.