[Leland Pate]

I don't get it guys.

Any half educated person should be smart enough to know they are ALL crooked.

It falls to the bascics of human nature. ESPECIALLY in a capitolist society. E V E R Y O N E is out for their best interests. You're of questionable state of mind if you're not. It doesn't matter what "party" you prefer. Dollar bills change hands... obligations are fufilled... etc.
All this talk of "special interest groups" really gets at me... What the hell is a special interest group??? Isn't E V E R Y T H I N G a special interest group? There is no "General Interest Group". You can't get 280 million people to agree on any one topic. Christ, we all subscribe to our own little list of "special interest groups".

I look at these elected officials and I know they are all out for their own interests beyond any other. It's human nature. I think most of us really know that... we are mostly, as a whole, just content to have everything in this society running more less the way it's been going. Warm, cumfy, cozy, spend spend spend... make babies... and die.

I for one openly admit my party of choice is not all it says it to be. None are.

I simply follow the basic idea of smaller/limited government. I don't want someone telling me where to receive medical treatment, I don't require a Gov't hand out, I don't ever want unknown people deciding how I choose to defend myself in my own home. These are the bascics.

Please don't fool yourself into thinking One Party cares for you any more than the other.

Demographically speaking, I think it is safe to say you can divide the country up into two catagories. The urban areas tend to be more liberal, while the more rural areas seem to me to be more conservative. I've always thought this was funny because Dem's usually try to paint the GOP as the e-vil conglomerate super dirty old men behind the curtain of all malace, while trying to paint themselves as "a real home grown people person".

I've also noticed over the years how the more educated, univ. professeur-elite type's seem to think of themselves as the more sophistocated/enlightened types while viewing their arch enemies, the Right-wingers as lowly pawns. Honestly, I have causght that from more than one.

This all seems very ironic to me.

In the end, I digress and decide to be happy with the current state of affairs.

What has GW done so incredibly wrong?
The war? is that the beef?

The economy?
Man, I bet GW popped that IT bubble himself...

I think we are doing pretty good all things considered.