Well, GUEST, if it weren't so cold up there, I'd probably consider it my ownself. Gotta agree with you that this election is more if a *dog and pony show* than anything that even slightly resembles democracy in action. The big boys own the players, they own the stage, they *direct* the agendas and the voters do there part in electing or selecting someone from my "None-of-the-Above" column of corporate owned puppets. And then the voters feel like they have been *heard*. Hahahaha. Just a big joke.

The US won't have democracy until the voters have had enough of participating in this corporate circle jerk. This can only happen with *real* campainge reform, publicly funded elections, uniform balloting, universal voting machines, inclusion of third, forth anf fifth party canidates in public debates, election day becoming a national holiday, etc, etc.

Bobert