I’m just happy that people on this board have stopping yapping about Obama and his “feel good” platform that will do virtually nothing to address what truly ails this country. Aside from Paul (and MAYBE Edwards), there’s no horse in this race that will make one whit of difference in our lives come January 2009. At its core, American politics today is essentially an argument over two flavors of vanilla, regardless of whether the candidate is a white man, a white woman or a black man. By the time any candidate has amassed enough money to appear on the national stage, they have been bought, sold and locked to the Establishment. Deluded Americans are being given the illusion of choice in order to anesthetize them to the real pain around them, much as we root for our favorite team in professional sports. It’s a distraction of enoromous proportions. Unless Paul or Edwards is on the ticket in Nov 2008, I’m not wasting my time voting. It will strictly be a calorie-burning exercise.
