Disillusionment, Bitterness, Politicus Interruptus

This is what it looks like when prostitutes are workin' it. That's Sweet-cheeks John McCain on the left, Luscious Barack Obama on the right, and look at the Big Money trying to be inconspicuous in the cute little Dodge Neon.

I mean this shit.

There's some real frustration in the world. I just read a blog from someone whose judgment I've come to trust (as well as I can know/trust anyone who is only manifest as a disturbance in the informational ether), and I'm picking up on some bad vibes coming from her way. And her bad vibes are echoes of my own.

Fact: Al Gore can preach carbon footprint all day, but he's jetting all over the world to do that preaching, dumping more environmental damage in one trip than any of us could manage in a lifetime. AL GORE DOESN'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT. AL GORE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT AL GORE.
Barack Obama seems like a good guy, and he gives a mean prepared speech. But he's politically untested, and he's had as many shady back-scratching political relationships as the rest of Washington. BARACK OBAMA IS NOT JESUS CHRIST. WITH LUCK HE WON'T BE THE ANTI-CHRIST.
John McCain is a registered, card-carrying war hero. He served his country under conditions of extreme duress, and he acquitted himself admirably. But that was thirty years ago. In the mean-time, he has been playing Washington political insider games. Just like everybody else. JOHN MCCAIN IS NOT THE ANTI-CHRIST. BUT HE IS A POLITICIAN. THE MAVERICK BULLSHIT IS JUST THAT: BULLSHIT. HE WILL TELL YOU WHAT HE THINKS YOU WANT TO HEAR, JUST LIKE THE REST OF THEM.
Sarah Palin is an unknown with a ton of personal charisma and a goddam drop-dead pair of legs. She might be a Fundamentalist who denies evolution in favor of 'creation science' (an utter oxymoron). Maybe she has a list of dinosaurs that Jesus rode, including the Jehovasaurus Rex and the VelociRapture. SARAH PALIN HAS REALLY NICE LEGS, AND THAT'S ALL I'M WILLING TO VOUCH FOR.
George Bush was inept, but he is/was not the devil. Don't blame him for everything. KNOW THE FACTS: KARL ROVE AND DICK CHENEY ARE AN ABOMINATION IN THE SIGHT OF THE WORLD. BAD, BAD, BAD GUYS. AND THEY ARE WILLING TO RAPE THE WORLD TO GET WHAT THEY WANT. Poor old W was a tool (in both senses of the word).

So what do you do? I hate to admit it, but I look at our government, our economy, our willingness to plunder the planet and our own futures for here-and-now profit, and I despair.
It's time for a change, I'll agree with Obama on that. But he ain't it. McCain ain't it. Democrats and Republicans only differ in who gets their palms greased.
Who is a change agent these days? The outsiders. The Naders, the Libertarians, the Ron Pauls of the world. But they can't even get a foot in the door, because nobody gives a shit. Until we give a shit, until we grow the collective cojones to force some REAL change we can look forward to more rape-n-plunder politics.
*steps off soap-box*
Thank you for your time.
~Jack