I rant. You (if you're American) decide!

It's ironic that, whilst the US has so much influence over the rest of the world (and is likely to continue to do so for at least another year or so), that same rest of the world has no say over the US's leadership, YET the American people themselves can be fairly apathetic about voting, with voter turnout under 50% not being uncommon, and even those who do vote seem to know less about the issues than we foreigners do. As merely one example, and as George Monbiot pointed out on the weekend, two-thirds of young Americans can't find Iraq on a map, one adult in five believes the Sun revolves around the Earth, and only 26% accept that evolution takes place by natural selection. Exclamation point, exclamation point.

Nonetheless! Today's the day (at least, in Australia, being on the other side of the International Date Line) that America will finally decide on it's future. Change, or more of the same. Actually, as Nobel Prize winning economist and writer for the New York Times, Paul Krugman, wrote a little while ago:

"(N)ow the team that hopes to form the next administration is running a campaign that makes Bush-Cheney 2000 look like something out of a civics class. What does that say about how that team would run the country?

What it says, I’d argue, is that the Obama campaign is wrong to suggest that a McCain-Palin administration would just be a continuation of Bush-Cheney.

If the way John McCain and Sarah Palin are campaigning is any indication, it would be much, much worse. "

Yes, McCain used to be OK, and it's a real shame that he wasn't chosen over Dubya in 2000, but it's now 8 years later...and he's a clown.

It's now Obama O'Clock.

Barack, I kindly ask that you Bring It.

Do us proud, our Septic cousins!