OK, it's clear we've got some pretty messed up situations on our hands - everything from an economy in the toilet from overspending and Wall Street shenanigans, an environment which is showing some signs of cracks from 100+ years of pollution, a crazy in North Korea threatening to use nukes, a middle east in turmoil with another crazy in charge (Iran) of one its countries, and a cultural crisis in the USA.
Across all of it, what jumps into my mind is we also have very little faith in the ethics and integrity of our political machine. We have corrupt politicians who lie and cheat and philander....then apologize and think they've somehow redeemed themselves. No! At least Elliot Spitzer had the decency to fire himself after using a prostitute. Mark Sanford sneaks off to Argentina without telling anyone (including his wife and kids on father's day weekend....let alone the state over which he presides) so he can fool around with his latin mistress. What a pathetic man. At least Bill Clinton stayed on the job while he was getting a bj in the White House.
Wouldn't it be so nice to have politicians that you felt were doing the right things, telling the truth, used straight forward language, had high ethics, couldn't be "bought" by lobbyists and campaign contributors, and weren't drunk on power and influence? I'm voting against the incumbent for any and every political race coming up - whoever ISN'T the incumbent has got to be better than this load of complete duds we have in office/power now.