Ha! Nice post, Akenaton. ;-) Fantasma is considered an interloper in the hallowed halls of the club here. As such, she draws a particularly vitriolic reaction from many of its members.

You're quite right, Americans are mostly in denial about the utterly bankrupt nature of their flip-flop Democrat/Republican duopoly. They keep grasping at the same old straws, time after time. They want to believe that this time, just once, Tweedledee will be a genuine alternative to Tweedledum.

And, you know, I rather like Obama. I just can't stand the party he belongs to...or the other one either.