Obviously, I've never voted in a presidential election before. I've been in the US for 3 presidential elections, however. The first, 1996, when very much the way I wanted it to go. The second two didn't have the person I favored winding up in the White House, but as I read through this excellent commentary by Keith Olbermann, I'm inspired to point out some things. The man who is ruining this country, in the course of two elections, received 112,500,720 votes. 112,500,720 ballots were registered as declaring this man as their president. Over the course of those elections, 115,210,303 ballots were cast for someone else. Over the course of two elections, this man with the sweeping mandate to wage an unprovoked and unpopular war, to send to their death over 3,000 American soldiers, to cause the death of thousands upon thousands of Iraqi citizens, and to possibly irreparably damage the country's reputation -- was outvoted by 2,709,583 ballots. Something needs to be fixed here. Clinton beat Bush in '92 by almost 5 million ballots alone. In '96 he won by almost 8 million over Dole. Even adding in his popular vote ballot victory in 2004, this man still has received less votes for him over two elections than against him. It's my firm belief that George W. Bush will go down in history as the worst president of his lifetime, if not ever. As a lame duck, I fear what he'll bring to this country over the next year. And I shudder to think what the result would be should any of his wannabe successors on the GOP ticket take the office following him. Giuliani is an authoritarian despot whose only "strength" seems to be that he happened to be mayor of New York during the September 11th attacks, and seems to have profited tremendously from that. Mitt Romney seems to think we ought to "double Guantanamo", whatever that means -- Guantanamo isn't overcrowded so he apparently thinks we need to detain even more people without trial or representation. We've got a Supreme Court that claims to uphold the constitution but is undermining it with every opportunity it can get. We've got a unitary executive that rewrites laws it doesn't like, disregards others, and isn't terribly concerned with court rulings. And we've got a congress that despite clear evidence to the contrary, seems to think the American public doesn't want this president impeached. Sigh. I've got myself worked up now. I'm going to stop. Just, please, if you're fed up like I am, do something about it. Let your representative know you support getting this criminal and incompetent executive branch ousted. Now.