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For any president, the next four years would be a poisoned chalice, so why not Mc Cain?

Oh, dear Zorb, haven't the last eight been poison enough for everyone?

1. The first Bush election wasn't so much an election as it was a rape, and the second was so slim it could be considered anorexic in spite of the fact that the opposition had all the charm, charisma and political skill of tofu.

2. We're entangled in two foreign wars, one of which might conceivably have been justified but which is hanging in limbo and hurting hundreds of thousands of civilians, the other of which is the result of deliberate lies and appears to have been motivated by profit, revenge and/or opportunism and is likewise hurting hundreds of thousands of civilians.

3. The country is divided (by the Great Uniter, mind you!) into red/blue camps because the current administration has successfully equated dissent with treason and has fomented hysteria to the exclusion of reason.

4. Our civil rights are being eroded at such a rate that "habeas corpus" has become a quaint, useless concept rather like wearing red flannel to ward off the Black Plague.

5. The economy has tanked to the point where even the comparatively rich are feeling the burn and our descendants...it's progressed beyond the boundaries of a single generation...will still be paying the interest on our debts a hundred years from now (assuming we survive that long).

6. The hitherto defunct Cold War threatens (paradoxically speaking) to be reignited via a series of executive misadventures, and I promise everyone that this president does NOT have the gravitas and demeanor that JFK was able to draw on, nor is his opponent the shoe-pounding party hack of yesteryear.

7. We are increasingly being conditioned to entertain the medieval horror of a mythical Armegeddon as a real-world goal, and have consequently as a group been desensitized to it's non-mythical consequences.

8. Very few people seem to understand this...


...for what it is.

The only thing worse than "my country, right or wrong", is "my party, right or wrong."

Obama promises change. Do we elect him and then hold his feet to the fire, or do we elect McCain on the unrealistic hope that if something doesn't work the first eight times, it might just work on the ninth?

Mac