[us_politics] The Best Man Didn't Win

It won't be the first time I've been contrarian.

We got the greater of two evils, if evils they be. George W. Bush has prosecuted his war of choice as ineptly as anything. He's gotten away with being for the troops even as he denies them proper equipment, refuses to adequately pay them, and even (through surrogates) blames the troops for the loss of the high-explosives as al-Qaqaa.

We have a President who is in favor of removing your right to overtime pay.

We have a President who was against the 9/11 commission...until he was for it.

We have a President who was saying we'd win the war on 'terror', and then said we couldn't, and then said he could.

We have a President who swears he won't reinstitue the draft, and won't...until he has to.

There were very likely problems with the electronic voting machines in Ohio and Florida. There will never be an investigation of this. There is no paper audit record.

We have a President who presided over the first actual loss of jobs since Herbert Hoover. As a matter of fact, if you aren't one of the rich elite, your upward mobility has been handicapped more and more.

What's more, we have a President who acts like a common man. He's never been a common man. The bottom line is, that a man who showed little character until he was 40 won out over a man who's shown nothing but character.

People who have nothing but contempt for "the common man" have apparently been approved of by "the common man". But were they really? Do people wait on line for six to eight hours to approve the status quo?

I learned at an early age that honest and smart people are usually made out to be chumps, and fortune seems to favor the not-so-bright and not-so-ethical. It would really seem that nothing has changed.

I reserve the right to not be happy about the outcome of this election. At least while it's still legal to do so in public.