The Politics of Dopes by Ted Rall. This will P/O Obama Supporters

[Paranoid Pessimist]

but I don't mean just to single them out. Rall asks a question that I've wondered about for years though this is the first time I've seen it put to print: Why do these people want to be president? Our candidates seem to appear at election time, not out of people who were involved in the political decision-making, not heads of the "the loyal opposition" but individuals who suddenly capture media attention and start running for president. Before 2000 I didn't even know there was a George Bush Jr. until he suddenly appeared on the cover of Time or Newsweek with the headline "President Bush?"

U.S. candidates don't head up a faction; they find factions and co-opt them, claim to speak for them. They seem to want to be president because that's the biggest thing you can achieve.

To me, Rall's article is a slam not just on Obama but on the whole stupid process.

http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/