Why Obama hasn't thus far been able to simply put McCain away is because the current US electorate is just those (with a few additions and deletions, no doubt) that elected GW Bush, War Criminal, TWICE OVER!

Until and unless enough people with common sense are into the polls, McCain will always run Obama close (or even win). The US has had those Jackass Nights at least twice before - so what makes anyone think it cannot have one or many more?

One only hopes that there do actually exist enough US citizens with some basic common sense who have come to understand the facts about GW Bush and Gang, and about what it means to their country (and to the rest of the world) to have War Criminals ruling the USA. I do believe there must be a fair number of these (i.e., US citizens possessing basic common sense) - though one can never be sure, view what happened in 2004, when GW Bush was voted in though he'd already been proven to be a War Criminal (beyond any shadow of reasonable doubt).

I do hope that enough of those voters with at least minimum common sense will be actually voting in November.

-- GSC

The Parsi community of India (Zoroastrians, originally from Iran, settled in India hundreds of years ago) had actually worked out what I feel is THE greenest way of corpse disposal:

Expose the corpse to the sun and wind at a 'body disposal tower', which the Parsis call the "Tower of Silence". There, vultures eat the flesh from the corpses and in a few weeks all that's left is some moldering bones. (I believe, but am not sure about the following, that every few years the crumbling bones that are left behind are collected and disposed of with no environmental hazard at all).

Alas, of late the vultures in India have been dying out because the 'other carrion' they feed on have ingested DDT and other pesticides used for crop dusting to enhance yields. Now, there are too few vultures to take care of the dead Parsi bodies - and those bodies tend to rot for a long time in the Towers of Silence. (For more info, just google for "Parsi body disposal"; "vultures going extinct" - plenty of material available).

(Just to set things clear: I am NOT a Parsi).

-- GSC