[HoneyBadger]

Ofcourse not!-and that's not what I said. Please read what I've posted in it's entirety, before you reply to it-especially before you reply to it in such a hostile, antagonistic, irresponsible way.

Well, since you probably won't, and since I don't want everyone else who doesn't bother to think I'm some kind of satanistic evil-monger just because of your reply, what I actually *said* was that it didn't bother me *AS MUCH*.

What I mean by that is that having someone in power who's *capable* of looking out for their own interests-and if they're President of the United States, the majority of their interests certainly lie *with* the U.S., if not entirely within it-is more valuable than having someone who's not capable of doing so. The degree of goodness in their hearts notwithstanding, the main thing is that what needs to be done, gets done, and that the country be run well, and with pride. Compare that to our current regime, who've acted like a bunch of greedy stooges for the past 8 years.

It'd be great if Ghandi run for Presidency, but unfortunately, he's dead. So's Jesus and Buddha and Mother Theresa. All the saints and patriarchs? Dead, dead, dead. And God the Righteous and the Just has refused to run, so we're stuck with mere fallible humans to lead the country, and I'd rather have someone who could play the part of President convincingly, then be ashamed every time I turn on CNN.

And I didn't say just me, I said the American people (which does include me). Compare Clinton to Bush, with the full realization that Clinton was nearly impeached for something that had absolutely no effect on his ability to run the country-except possibly in a positive way, as a reducer of stress.

I'm tired of being embarrassed to be an American. I love my country, I love the ideals that it stands for, and the different people and ways of life it encompasses, and I'm tired of hearing from these little countries that our people had to *escape* from, in order just to live their lives, how we're all a bunch of screw-ups.

I want somebody in there who's basically a good person, ofcourse I do, but I also want somebody who's smart, who's a survivor, and who's got a real interest in being President.

Right now we don't *have* someone who's capable of keeping major disasters down to a minimum, so corruption here, and destruction in other countries, is secondary to that. I'm sorry if you don't feel the same way, but when my own house is on fire, I'm a little distracted by the fire-fighter who's saving my house, from his buddy who's stealing my tv--and I'm not paying close attention to the flood across town.

Sad to say, but I'd much rather have Nixon in office, than Bush.

When we have somebody in office who we don't have to worry so much about, then we'll be free to worry about other things.