"a little side-step"

Judge Irving Younger, is quoted as having said: "The first task of free men is to call all things by their right names."

I absolutely agree. With out definitions, and recognition of those definitions, choas, atrocity, and severe annoyance are allowed to occur. Starting with the pollution of the general atmosphere and eventually ending with the destruction of all ideals.

On that note:
I am sick of the double-talk, glittering generalities and BS of our political personalities. The parasitical lobbyists, politicians and pundants are merely the most obvious offenders. However, in the DC area a day before the presidential election almost anyone you talk to is ready to regurgitate some foul piece of advertisement as Gospel Truth.
Nobody tells it like it is, not really (and especially not if they are trying to get elected).

In the process of writing the above paragraph I was interrupted 7 times by phone calls from the different political parties, each of them trying to tell me who I should vote for. I understand: it's a close race, every vote counts, that it's responsible participation in the democratic process!

But for the love of all things, can we please give the "Messiah-complex" a rest!
A new president is not, can not, and will not be a "savior". They're cupable, frail, HUMAN! (and as such certain to mess-up, alot.)

Whoever gets elected will fail to make good on all their promises, and in trying to implement new policies or change old ones will, without doubt, tick off large proportions of the population, maybe even everyone (not all at the same time of course, but eventually).

That being said, you should still go vote. Only, do so based on what you think not what streamlined add campaigns have been telling you to think. Examine your convictions and the candidates' words/ actions.
Then quit lying to yourself and get on with it.