Yeah, Bobert, it is like a big "Reality" show, like you say. Sad. Sad. Very sad. Downright tragic. It's like People magazine and the Tinseltown Tattler joining together to set up the future of the nation.

What I fear is that the American people will get the government they deserve (again?). Or worse yet, they may get something even considerably more irresponsible and dangerous than the government they deserve.

No, seriously, I don't even want to think about it any more. It just messes up my mind and makes me feel hopeless.

You see, the very political process itself, in the way it is presently set up in the USA, is so totally rotten and compromised that I don't see how it can redeem itself. I really don't. I don't see how any decent, normal person could go through a presidential election campaign (as a candidate, for example) without being deeply disillusioned and personally damaged by the whole thing. To put a normal person in that position would be like throwing them in a pit of starving wolves, metaphorically speaking.

If Obama is a good and decent and honest man, his life is going to be ruined by this. If he's not, if he's just another typical ruthless powerbroker of the governing $ySStem, then his life is already ruined.