[Songman45]

I see this whole electoral process as an exercise in futility. It's damned if you do - damned if you don't. We scream for new blood in high political places to ouster the dirty dogs. Just as we turn a curve to that ends [see also Sarah Palin] the alternative is bashed and beaten for having no experience. Three of four voices in the presidential ticket choir want to talk about reparing the same machine they have been the oil for, for years. Presidential candidates hop on the stump and claim they are going accomplish things that are clearly out of the reach of that office. Once in office they deflect criticism for failure to the responsibility of another. Mc Cain claims he is going to introduce Sara Palin to the good ol boy network in D.C. and clean out the corruption. What's he been doing for all the years he was in there with them?

Ben Franklin summed it up pretty well, "We vote as many, pray as one".