programmer – then what *is* your beef, when you keep referring repeatedly to Republican spending and the state of the economy? I really can’t see the Democrats doing a better job pork-wise AND they tend to build stuff like bridges to no-where in Alaska rather than fences along our Mexican border.

At least with Republican spending we’ve got thousands of dead terrorists to show for it, and a Middle East that’s teetering on the edge of mass rioting and decline which has got to be good for something.

It took the hugely escalating price of gas to get me concerned about America’s economy because I figured it would all sort itself out in the capitalist market like it always does — that we really haven’t been in a recession and world-wide compared to Europe and Japan and even CHina, we’re not doing that badly. Now I think that someone has been deliberately manipulating the upward spiral of gas prices and I’m wondering who that is … and why. I think OPEC could do it and I think the American government could do it. I don’t think any one single gazillionaire like Soros could do it, so again, why? What has been accomplished? Is it as simple as getting Americans pissed off at the Arabs again, and ready to nuke Iran if it means bringing the cost of gas down?

But for you, programmer, to repeatedly say that you’re going to vote for the Messiah and then list economics as the only reason makes me think it must be personal. And if I’m wrong, then how?