I'm not an issues guy

[nescio17]

I took the candidate matching quiz a while back.  It seemed like sort of a fruitless exercise to me.   There are a lot of issues I care about, but when it comes down to it, I'm not going to vote based on the issues.

The number of Presidential decisions made that directly touch on most of those issues is really quite small.  I would rather have a

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[nescio17]

No.

[nescio17]

That's amazing. Particularly, "Meh, TanGreedo was a xenophobic freak who got wiped out early. Don't need to worry about him."

[nescio17]

I started trying to write the "Change your lightbulbs" speech--but it's not very easy. "We are not a nation of darkness. And we are not a nation of wasteful, incandescent lights. The cynics said that we would never convert the country to compact flourescents, but this week, as a nation, we will show that they are wrong. We will show that we are not afraid to save energy. We will show that we believe in a bulb that will last longer without burning out. We are not afraid of that unfamiliar spiral shape--and we are able to find somewhere to shop where we can purchase our lightbulbs for a buck, maybe a buck-fifty each because we, as a nation, reject that five ninety-seven or whatever the special interests are trying to charge because it is totally ridiculous."

[nescio17]

I tried--but I bet you didn't actually change any light bulbs, did you?