Samuel,

Thanks much for your detailed response, I learned much from reading it. The distinction in voting for congress and the presidency that you pointed out brought a little ah-ha on this end. The founders did know what they were up to, didn’t they?

Your comments on compaigning were also informative. It is a subject that I know little about and so any remarks by a knowledgeable person are like a mini education. I would *love* to see a short, succinct, book on the subject along the lines of the classic “How to Lie with Statistics.”

From what you say, I conclude that you feel that the times call for serious discourse and finding solutions to real problems, but all you see are opportunistic and cynical attempts to gain back the Whitehouse. That burns me too. The Democrats aren’t fiddling while Rome burns, they are having a party with group sex in the upstairs bedroom while the parents are on their way home.