It looks obvious

I was never a big fun of the nationalistic fetishism festival called the Olympic games. It was too often an arena for evil regime to demonstrate their “greatness” and it isn’t much different this year. I much rather a competition setting in which individual, or individual teams, participate based on their achievements and represent themselves instead of representing a state. But even I didn’t realize the dangers posed to participants in the Beijing Olympic Games:

The Beijing Olympics: Are They A Trap?

In november the American voters will have to choose between this:

“serving a cause greater than self-interest.”

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“We are fast becoming a nation of alienating individualists, unwilling to put the unifying values of patriotism ahead of our narrow self-interests,” Mr. McCain warned in a speech during his 2000 presidential campaign. He added that “cynicism threatens to become a ceiling on our greatness.”

and this:

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.

A poor selection indeed.