I wish that worked for me, but it's like when you start to look for something, and can't find it, and you can't let it go. Everyday I hear sane reasonable sounding people saying things I can't get on my worksheet. Bush's integrity. How do you get that? People say that all the time. Because he takes unpopular stands? They're unpopular because they are contrary to sense and responsibility. It's like giving Beetle Bailey credit for his commitment to loafing. Except Beetle isn't loafing on behalf of anyone else, he's his own man, at least.

Old Guy, how do you get that Kerry--or, screw Kerry, ANYBODY-- would claim to fix things that aren't broken? You see no problems, no huge mounting debt, no man who orchestrated attacks on the U.S. still out and about, while we're too busy with other business to bother much about it, no widening gap between extreme wealth and extreme poverty, no general tendency for recent solutions to have no known relationship to the problems they are supposed to address, no nothing. I wish I lived in your world. I wish you lived in mine. Call me a fool and an idiot. Fine. Step up and tell me how to see it your way, seriously, please.

You bring up Kerry and Edwards having personal conflicts and interests. Who doesn't? Show me one citizen who doesn't, name one viable candidate from this other planet you speak of. Remember, it IS possible to govern and legislate independent of your personal connections and interests. It just hasn't SEEMED possible for four years, somehow. It's actually possible. I'll bet on a slim chance over no chance. Bush's integrity. Good Lord.