What I just said over in the Kucinich thread:

The entire field of candidates, viable and otherwise, are a distressingly bad lot, considering the US and it's citizenry routinely claims the mantle "best in the world" at democracy. Of course, once you've brainwashed the electorate to believe that elections are the sole criteria of democracy, then hey--the power mongers got elections in the bag. Their bag, not yours. I see no uproar in this forum over the FISA debate going on in Congress right now. Why? It's all about the horse race and celebrity politics. Meanwhile, Weasel Cheney is addressing the Heritage Foundation, and ratcheting the pressure up on the Democrats so they will cave and make his custom made FISA law permanent. All while everybody is watching the celebrity horse race.

Hey--is that Sylvester Stallone over there with John McCain? He has a new Rambo blood bath movie premiering doesn't he?

I went and saw Barak--he's the Bono of the celebrity politician set, isn't he? What a rock star! Wouldn't it be great to have a rock star president? That would be just so awesome.

Even Kucinich is a dire choice, because he isn't a very good politician. Sure he has hung onto his seat for several terms, but considering the legacy of incumbency, that isn't usually all that difficult. He is the perfect example of a candidate who can be right on all the issues, but wrong for the country because he isn't an effective leader.

The whole system is a sham at this point. Your choices are a lying, cheating crook from the Republican wing or Democrat wing. Now, if your conscience allows you to continue voting for lying, cheating crooks then by all means, vote. Otherwise--not.

Personally, I've come to believe the country deserves who they vote for, so hey--looks like it will be four more years of Republicans, eh? It's all so predictable--unless you vote for Democrats, of course. Then you are just downright delusional.