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I don't have time to read through the comments, so apologies if it's been said.
F*cking hell, how did it ever come down to "the guy you'd like to have a beer with" as an actual qualification for f*cking President of the United States?
I don't want someone "I can relate to." I want someone who can do the damned job. I want someone who is a bazillion times smarter than I am. I want someone who reads and is an intellectual, though with a heaping spoonful of common sense. I want someone who knows and has learned the lessons from history, and not someone who cannot even identify what the Bush Doctrine is. I don't f*cking want someone who's just an ordinary joe!
And the fact that a good chunk of the electorate thinks that voting in someone who's "just like them" is a good idea makes me incredibly angry, and hopeless. Christ on a cracker, if democracies ensure that the people get the government they deserve, we're screwed.
