Agreed, Ake. The only American politicians I know of who are consistently telling the truth are Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, and the 2 big parties hate both of them with a vengeance.

As for the others, they're just doing the usual corporate song and dance and orchestrating the great "Divide and Conquer" scenario yet again.

To vote for any of them is to rubber stamp the existing powers that be...the corporate Oligarchy.

I think the corporates are quite happy with Mr Obama's "performance" so far. That's exactly what it is: a performance. He's done what they wanted. And that is why I think he'll win the next election. Romney will make a good sacrifice to maintain the illusion that those 2 parties can offer any sort of real democratic choice to the hapless public that goes out and votes for them.