I feel like everytime I happen to catch any part of the race between goon number one or goon number two, I'm watching some ancient newsreel, perhaps titled, "This is the lunacy that prevailed!" I just can't stomach general politics anymore. It's all a joke. It's the old way. They are all big-time losers bought and sold by the corporations that put them there. I feel like I'm watching some long, horrible commercial for a product that only the completely ignorant will buy.

Watching CNN's intro to today's SC coverage, it was done exactly like an American Idol promo, complete with music and editing. Absolutely insane, as well as insulting.

It's as if I'm embarrassed for humanity, and especially our country, on so many levels. Embarrassed for the naked greed our leaders operate under and for the blatant denial of destruction we've caused, embarrassed that all of that is hypocritically draped in the spreading of freedom or the defense of ours, embarrassed for how easily duped or bought we are, ashamed at how little we've (I've) been willing to do about it.

It's not as if this hasn't always been happening, but there was at least a veneer of civility and caring that is no longer bothered with, or needed, apparently, in order to be successful. Truly embarrassing and shameful, what it's come to. It's almost hard to believe the lack of outrage at what comes out of these people's mouths!

with what everyone has said. It is so good to hear your words speak what is in my heart; I know that I am not alone.

Thank you for the laugh!

These candidates are pandering to the lowest common denominator, giving them more power than they deserve, making the ignorant, the hate-filled, the small-minded the priority. On that path lies the ruin of our society (and it's pretty far down that road already).

It like how I viewed stories about the '50s and '60s--the actions against the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement--from my perch in the '80s--"How could anyone THINK like that?" I truly hope that when our children learn about the Aughts, they have the same reaction. I hope they can't fathom how stupid our country was for a (hopefully) short while.

In an age of information, ignorance is a sin, and an easily corrected one at that. To be so proud of such willful ignorance is appalling and insulting to those of us who go to such great lengths to not be stupid.

I think we're getting ready to grow past this as a species, but there will always be pockets of it left. The area I'm currently in is especially bad in that regard. -.-

Very well put. Charles Dickens wrote that the only real sins were want, ignorance, and greed.

is going through a NEPTUNE return, 7 years from now. That means it's going to get much worse since it's not being used properly now. Don't touch them with a 10 foot pole. They've become a pathetic joke. You can't kid Neptune.

You may kid American voters, but not Neptune.

They are dissolving like the wicked witch. 7 years is nothing considering it's a 186 year cycle. It's going on well now and will get much worse. We have to hold up the country.