Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
All we can do is wish and hope and try to guess who's going to screw us over the least at this point... at least that's how I feel after seeing the two major candidates we have to choose from
You almost never have two GREAT candidates. And given the fact that people legitimately disgree over policy, you are never going to get everyone to AGREE that a candidate is great. But I'm not that disappointed in these choices. Maybe it's just that I have been conditioned to such low expectation by Bush, but I think either one will be an improvement, and neither one will be a disaster. I don't think either one of them is a bought-and-paid-for puppet like I consider Bush to be.

American politics is a pendulm that swings in favor of one group's interests for a time and then swings back. When Clinton's term was over, it was time to swing a bit more conservatively, and I wish it had been McCain who had beat Bush in the primaries in 2000. He would have been a responsible Republican president during the conservative period. But now I think it is time to swing back to a more liberal politics, and McCain's time was lost to Bush. I'm sure Obama will win, and it will represent a good change for a time. Other voices will be heard for awhile. McCain would have been a fine preisdent, but he lost his shot 8 years ago.