h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm having it. It's getting worse now that we're down to days in the single digits before Election Day.

I'm terrified that Bush will win again (or again have it declared that he's won, with his friends in Florida, Congress and the Supreme Court standing by to help).

AND I'm nervous about Kerry winning. I'm not sure there's anyone inside that suit, though I AM fond of Teresa.

I thought I had a bad choice in 2000, but that's nothing compared to this.

I think Bush is dangerous, so there's no way I'm voting for him. But I'm not sure Kerry has enough vision, integrity and smarts for the job, either.

Argghh! Why can't the Democrats come up with better choices? The only way I was even able to vote in the primary last winter was by process of elimination.

I have been wondering why do you seem to have two bad choices always. Is it the campaign that makes everybody look bad or are all the top politicians bad? I wonder what kind of a president would Conan the Governor make...

Thank God he can't run! You have to be born on U.S. soil to run. There's a little band trying to amend the Constitution to change that, but it's not easy to amend the U.S Constitution.

Actually, the Governator might not be that bad compared to what we have now.

Yep, I know. But- atm it's a little band but in couple years, who knows...

They have to get it through both houses of Congress, then two-thirds of the state legislatures have to ratify it.

Let's see, if Arnold gives each state $2 million, he'd still have plenty left.

The thing with US is that your president has more influence on my life than ours.

I know. I'm sorry about that. I hope we will do better by the rest of the world this time. Or I may have to consider retiring to France 17 years early!

You better do!

If only it were up to me!

Russian president called everybody to vote for B*sh.

Vote carefully folks. With our spineless PM in power what you vote for, we get too.....

Re Putin, well, yes. He and Bush are buds, and he knows Bush has made it fashionable to clamp down on the "terrorists" as indiscriminately as you want, and Bush is likely to keep looking the other way while Putin erodes democracy and consolidates his power in the name of fighting terrorists, as Bush and his ilk have now made it legal to subpoena our library records without even letting us know.

TPC! How lovely to see you. And you're right.

I've just learned that there are five other candidates running for president.

In this country I have heard zilch about their politics.

Really? I looked on my company's Web site to see if I could post a link here for you to the story we did on them, but it's been so long it's already gone. Sorry.

None of them has a prayer of winning, which is why they haven't gotten much news attention. They didn't break the threshold to be able to participate in the debates, for example.

Night, all, let's talk about this more tomorrow!