Eternal Love

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are neck and neck because - well who knows?  But the fact that they are says volumes about the collective intellect of the American people.  Because "The Wisdom of Crowds" was supposed to even out the bias and the BS of the vested interests and the stupid people.

Obama is a middle class and middle of the road Democrat who has been doing his best to clean up the god-awful mess that he was left by George W. Bush.  He isn't perfect by any means but he is trying hard and he has been making good progress for 4 years.  He deserves another term.  His biggest failure is that he spent lots of time negotiating with the Repubs - thinking they were reasonable folks.

The main reason that his progress has been slow and intermittent is because those Repubs have been blocking his every move.  Plus they just won’t accept the fact that a black man is in the white house.  Some of us call that racist.

And Romney is part of the 1% and probably just another "ugly far right wing Republican".  But even that is a guess - because he has had more contorted positions than Linda Lovelace.  He won the Republican nomination by being further to the right than Attila the Hun - but donned the useful disguise of "just another harmless old man" in the debates.

My guess is that he is probably a better actor than Ronald Reagan - and will revert to "ugly right wing Republican" when and if he wins the election.

Which will be a pity - because the last thing the world needs is another half-arsed US President - exporting Republican ignorance and arrogance via US military might.   George W. Bush did enough stupid stuff in his eight years to last the US a lifetime.

But the fascinating thing for me is that 300 million Americans appear so evenly split.  This decision should be a no-brainer - but apparently it isn't.  Very scary stuff.

And Australian politicians thought it was a good idea to pledge "Eternal Love" to the US.  We seem to be as mad as they are.