you're voting for people, not for policies. you're electing a king, and hope for a good one, against all experience.

that's the result of living in an elective monarchy, rather than a genuine democracy. since you have no information about what they actually are going to do, you must try to guess: are they gonna bugger the nation up, or hold it together for another 4 years? it's hard to tell what kind of person you're handing sac and the usmc to, especially since what little you do know about candidates is half lies and the rest untrue. no wonder voters might be a little bitter, after getting bit by bush, and many, many others.

should be clear to everyone tho', the important contest is against mccain. both should be speaking against him, and letting voters judge who does it better. when they attack each other, they attack the people who depend on the democrat party to save the nation from the party of greed and arrogance.

has been slamming a pool cue across the usa's neck for 7 years now, and democrats are arguing?

keep your eyes on the main game, people: vote for any and every democrat you see. this isn't gonna fix all of america's problems, but it will greatly reduce the new ones mccain would bring you.

repeat before sleep: "democrats good, republicans bad! democrats good, republicans bad! democrats...."

you got all these soldiers, if you don't use, people will ask why their taxes are supporting a 'defense' machine bigger than the rest of the world, together. so naturally, you gotta use 'em. besides, using results in wear and destruction, so you can transform more taxes into mic profits. eisenhower saw the results and warned america, but somehow no one since has said anything.

news flash, folks: the bad guys won, they've been running america for a long time, you're not smart enough to see it, not brave enough to change it, and the rest of the world can expect visits by the american military every time dubya's dad wants to pump up carlyle group's profits.

naturally, they will strike back when and how they can. if there are any people left who think american foreign policy has no ill effects, such as the 9/11 attacks, they are as stupid as dubya is hypocritical. 3000 casualties should have provoked introspection, the expenses of preventing another such attack should have inspired someone to ask: "why are we so hated?" sorry, it's not because you're so wonderful.

hiatt's a dimwitted apologist for the current notably boof-headed regime. he shouldn't need a reply, but i suppose gg makes a living by 'outraging' several times a week. since he never has anything to say about 'why', he really isn't much more useful than hiatt, they are book-ends, in it for the money.

america's problems are much more serious, incurable most likely. you're just too dim, too ignorant, too arrogant to figure the world out. so you'll keep butting your collective head against reality, until finally the head breaks. it will, reality always has the last word.

in the meantime, choose yer 'king fer a day' as tho' it mattered. argue about 18c a gallon, as tho' this was more important than imperial war, melting polar caps, alternative power sources. and never, ever think think that killing people all around the world might have consequences 'not necessarily to the advantage' of americans not invested in munitions making.

detects a change in the weather? in a more perfect world, every one who had anything to do with gitmo would be looking at hard time, but maybe a change of course will preserve this birds career. he's a lawyer/politician/colonel, multi-talented and unsinkable.

what he isn't, is ethical.

more than half the american electorate know what the american government is doing, and approve of it. if they didn't approve, they would instruct their representatives to impeach bush and cheney.

under these conditions, emigration is the answer. i recommend switzerland or costa rica, or canada or australia or... well, lots of places don't run show trials, use torture, or drop bombs on wedding parties. find one that will let you in, in spite of an american passport.

every 4 years, americans knock on wood and vote for a king. they often know little about him, and often what they know is carefully crafted lies. but the constitution requires that they hand great power to a man, generally one of two, and then live with what that man chooses to do with the nation.

in 2008, the electorate made a disastrous choice, with some help from creative vote counting and a stacked court. worse, the tempering effect of congress was negated by the power of the republican party to compel support of the president's policies. not only did the elective monarchy deliver a dud, the 'separation of powers' in the constitution simply didn't work. the resulting war crime in iraq should be sufficient impetus for a revised constitution, but too many americans are at the 'my country, right or wrong' stage of evolution.

consequently, 5 years after the fantasy of american empire in iraq began to unravel, john mccain can preach 'more of the same, only even more so' and get support. i could say "god help america," but since you're digging your own grave, i'll just say "god help the rest of us", who have to share a crowded planet with a nation of arrogant boof-heads who imagine they can shoot their way to any goal.