Why is it when there are so many well informed, opinionated and articulate mudcatters from the USA that the best that country can drag up as presidential contenders is Messrs Bush and Gore. Surely the strongest, richest most energetic etc etc nation on earth must have more to offer the world than these two limp specimens. Is it not time that the people in the US had a real choice in politics? It seems from the outside that you really do not have much choice at all, as both political parties sseem to be nothing more than opposite sides of the same coin. When is that great nation going to elect a REAL person not just a political facade?