I liked the article until the last paragraph. It ended on a rather sour note.

It bothers me that voters feel that "change" for the sake of change is more important that a candidate's experience. I don't think that experience is what is bogging down Washington. I think there are hundreds of serious issues that have largely been ignored because the voters stopped pressing those elected officials to get the job done. Voters tend to think their job is done once they have fulfilled their obligation by voting. The polls tell Washington they are doing a lousy job, but then we go ahead again the vote in another group that continues promising without any real solutions. Every solution will work out well for some and for some it will hurt them. That is why nothing gets done. Elected officials are afraid of not getting re-elected again and so they don't want to offend any group that helped them get their job.

What bothers ME is that McCain is the ultimate NeoCon- he would invade Iran despite there being no nuclear weapons program! And yet the press coddles him. This is ridiculous. This man is responsible for so much death and destruction from war, and wants to continue to wage war on 3rd World countries. And yet he is "A Maverick" and a "Straight Talker". He'd keep us in Iraq for 100 years, by his own words! Not to mention that he is also Pro-Life and Pro-Corporations.

Do not be fooled by the McCain snake oil that journalists like Weisberg are trying to sell you. John McCain is nothing like Barack Obama.

Kricki has expressed the problem with Congress articulately and succinctly.

And of course, it is rather a silly waste of time to talk about how two candidates are similar in certain matters of style or attitude if they are at polar extremes regarding important issues. Unless....the voters are going to choose merely on style. And maybe they are. Why should a presidential election be any different than American Idol or Dancing With the Stars, or the newest you-be-the-judge show, Make Me a Supermodel?

Maybe we should just eliminate the primaries and have a TV show: Make Me a President.