Candidates say what their handlers tell them to say to get elected. They split words, spin phrases and make you think you hear what you want to hear. Few will ever come right out and tell you what they think for fear of loosing millions of voters. That assumes that they are not in fact an empty suit with no real thoughts about anything other than getting elected.

What scars me is that they all have this underling belief that all of our rights are granted by the government and we should be happy for that fact. The government only protects our rights not grants them. We empower the government not the government empowers us. That is a major difference. We should expect the government to do their job without the need for ever ending thanks for doing it.

Politicians are arrogant in most cases and feel that the laws they write do not really apply to them. They are our leaders and we little peons should bow humbly when they pass. The non elected ones are worse than the one who stand for election. Who would have been advising Al Gore after 9/11 had he won? Barbara Streisand, Opra, Rossie, Moveon.com, ect... Bush may not have made all the right choices after 9/11 but at least he did not just wring his hands and issue arrest warrants. It is these appointed and non appointed advisers that I worry about.

I have been hearing every election for the past 40 years is a election that will change our world for the worse. Most have been very little if any real change. This one will pass as the others have. Changes will happen but to a far lesser extent that most fear or want. Thank heavens for the fact that the government is a 8000 pound gorilla and getting it to move at all is a major feat. That inertia keeps us from any major change in any direction. Pity that 8000 pounds take so much to feed it from our income but at least it is solid as a rock and almost as smart.