But Dick's a smart guy. Will he hang out for his own denoument or hightail outta here?

Now take that little fact to heart and take a look at the current polls per McCain and Obama. Add that to the fact Gallup bases their responses on landlines ONLY. Now who has cell phones? Yes, likely Obama voters. Add a ten percent margin FOR Republican voters and viola, you have a tie.

The polls are baloney.

Sure, the system needs crushing. But I don't want to be crushed along with it.

What better way to justify electronically altered votes than to have yet another "constituency" who can be "blamed" for the alledged choices?

Granted, there are plenty of "Angry White Men" to go around. But their numbers are diminishing as the country fills out as a multi-ethnic, multi-gender nation, whether it likes it or not.

Obama, love him or hate him, represents a landmark event in United States history -- a black man who, with the support of literally his entire party (Denver, The Clintons) and a seething multi-cultural base, is finally challenging (or pretending to challenge) what has become status quo in this country.

Maybe that's what The Klan is so alarmed about.

But, back in my youth I saw Bad Brains at CBGBs. I was a neo-rockabilly fashion boy at the time -- you know, AREA, Danceteria, Veselka (sp.?) -- and had to be dragged to the show.

Well, Lord Almighty, what a performance. The band was great and the punks or moshers or whatever they're called these days were absolutelu primal -- swatiska tats and black leather, buzzcuts and baldies, f------- anarchy. I loved it.

Okay, so I hardly turned into wild boy in its' wake and eventually ended up getting married and moving on to real life (bills, bills, bills). But, for one night back in the early 80s I got on board for a night of nihilism.

And I loved every second of it.

Now it can be argued such sentiments are nothing more than the cynicism of the disinfranchised, but in view of other American assassinations (JFK, RFK, MLK) the contention does have a certain validity to it.

What we seem to forget about American (I'll spare y'all the "k") political life is that it's really nothing more than one big ploy to begin with. Every move is calculated, calibrated and analyzed ad infinitum. It's a super-sized game somewhere between Risk and Hollywood Squares. They all play. They always have. They always will -- until we do something about it.

Think Georgia.

Think Cold War.

Think Nuclear Arms.

Think GM foods.

Think corporate corruption (an oxymoron).

We Americans like to think we're so "exceptional" that we, and we alone, "run" the planet. Be that the case it's no wonder the rest of the world wants a new boss.

I know I do.

Sure, Edwards was wrong. But so was -- and is -- McCain

One can only wonder what the corporations have got on the lot of them.

There was a op-ed in Pravda recently (written by a fellow American) calling for all of their heads, actually recommending the death penalty as a deterent to future coups. Be that the case I feel the pair should given their lives... and a cell on Guantanamo Bay.

Corny has proven himself to be part and parcel of the ruinous clique that's brought this country to the very brink of disaster. As it stands today he'll be a reliable buddy and ally for McCain or a thorn in Obama's side. Either way he's a impediment to progress... and a wasted vote