Be honest. What have you learned from the first two presidential debates? Do you expect to be any more enlightened by Wednesday night's third and final showdown between Barack Obama and John McCain?
If you're like my friends and associates outside the newsroom, you're setting the bar pretty low. If these "debates" have proven anything, they confirm our two-party choice is dumb and dumber (you pick).
The looming election reminds me of so-called elections in dictatorships where the votes are 99.9% for the current regime (The remaining 0.1% disappear into an abyss or worse). Two indistinguishable candidates will garner 95%+ of the electorate. Third party candidates will receive the tattered remnants of the remaining principled votes. Our electoral system tolerates no intrusion of third parties' thoughts or ideas into the process.
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