Some questions for all...

The way this country treats leaders keeps the cream of the crop out. We are fickle citizens. One day we love our leaders and the next day we detest them. They have to live in an up and down world. Many good people stay out of politics because who needs the stress. I think we have a good candidate in Hillary Clinton. She wants the job and she has proven that she can deliver. The others have not proven a thing in their careers.

Candidates on both sides Democrat, and Republican not my favorites. I wish Al Gore would gave it another try, or Kucinich. But I must vote anyway. I just feel that our country won't get any better with the candidates we have now.

I'm very unhappy with what is left of the front runners. My hopes have been dashed with those who decided to drop out. I think we're in trouble here.

You really have to be a whore to get the money necessary to run for president, that or you have to have a fortune of your own. The smartest people aren't always the richest people. It also seems the presidency has become a launching pad to mega wealth, and that many of the candidates are in it for absolutely selfish reasons. Clintons will sell off America to the Chinese as soon as they get a chance. It will be like corporate raiders are in office. Bush has sold his soul to the Arabs, and you can bet they are expecting the next Republican to do the same. McCain may not sell out so easily, but hard to predict what Obama might do. Democrats have been migrating to a socialist philosophy for several decades now, so they have no stake in Democracy any more. This is why the Clintons have no problem se3lling out to their Chinese backers.

this is pretty much in line with what I feel too.

Joe T is right about how we treat our leaders, no matter how you feel about the ones we've had the last few decades-the treatment they and their families get from the media and public is horrifying. To even enter a political race you have to bare your soul and its not hard to see why we end up with what we've gotten for so many years now, who would realy want to put their familiy through that all unless they are simply amoral power graspers?

You can see in many articles on gather, people are not happy about November. It seems like it'll be another year of picking the lesser of two evils except the choices are even more starker than normal.

I agree with Teresa H. I would suppose it's the lament of every aging generation to say "this country ain't what it used to be" and they would be right. It seems a little funny that each new generation rushes headlong with a progressive mindset only to echo the same sentiment a few decades down the road. The more "enlightened" like to call us dinosaurs. I prefer the term experienced.

Leaders come and go. I haven't seen any in my lifetime that really seeks to preserve the integrity of the American experiment. The government takes over more and more of our lives and treasure while ever increasing numbers of us stand in line with our hand out expecting what was once earned to be handed to us simply because we were born here. It seems if you can address that part of America your chances of getting elected are much better.

Oddly enough I agree with Mr Fogg. I think that until we get the money out of the presidential equation we will be stuck with the ultra rich running for president. Not necessarily the best.

I would like to point our that Bush has certainly sold our soul to china. They now hold close to a Trillion dollars of our debt. They could wipe us out finacially with a simple statement. Good thing it is a symbiotic relationship they need us almost as much as we need them. Sad state of affairs.

Hey Charles, thanks for the e-mail.
I'm really quite depressed that the only two guys who have the balls to stand up to the corporate scumbags, John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich have "left the building" (along with Elvis).
Until we get the "one-two punch" of Big Pharma and the Insurance Racketeers OUT of the equation, there can be no health care reform.
From where I sit, we are being given a choice of two turds (Clinton and McCain) and one "wet fart".
OY !!!