The late, great George Carlin decisively came out as recently as March, and said he DID NOT support Obama or anyone else this year--like every other election year since he stopped participating in the electoral process after the 1972 election, when the Dems changed their party rules to keep out the likes of McGovern.

In his honor, I humbly offer these gems from him:

“The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election”

“If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten” (that one ended up being prophetic for 2000 & the Supreme Court theft of the election)

Here is one that describes, for me, the reality of this year's election choices:

“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.”

And finally, just because it describes how so many of us feel about corporate selected candidates this year, one of my all time fave quotes by Carlin:

“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.”

And as George loved to point out about all conventional politics: we're screwed.

From a 1999 Mother Jones interview:

"Honesty has no place in politics. It would throw everything off."

"I'm on the left because I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism. It's so shortsighted. Most people are interested in their own personal comfort. I've said that about environmentalists -- I think they care about bike paths and places to park their Volvos, not the planet as an abstraction."

"I'd like for people to feel better and have better lives, but I don't think that's in the cards through political action. I think bloodshed is still the way you get dramatic change. That'll never happen because they've got all the guns now. At least they've got the nice guns, the big ones, the ones with night vision."

And then there is his more recent piece on politicians and voting you can see at You Tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u6lCBnRoHQ