For better or for worse, we live in a world in which most "democratic" political systems are constructed on a basis of hierarchical tiers of representation. The higher the tier one reaches, the more one can accomplish. This effectively means that being a politician is a career. We do not live in the world in which leadership and representation is a duty one takes reluctantly, for maybe a year or two in addition to one's other life activities. I wish we did, but we don't.

Kos put up a diary today, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/28/..., where he laments about his candidate's performance on Fox News Sunday.

Sorry Kos, you can only go to the primaries with the Obama you have, rather than the one you wished you had.

Hey! Anybody got a guitar?

Don't Trust Them As Far As You Can Throw Them

The candidates are on the TV pleading
for a chance to get my allegiance and my vote
they try to tell me why they are the only guy
or girl who has the stuff to bring me hope

They offer inspiration and a vision
just what that vision is ain't always clear
with analogies and metaphors abundant
you'd think they were an ale and not light beer

(chorus)
Don't trust them as far as you can throw 'em
Don't trust them no matter who they are
Don't trust them as far as you can throw 'em
And it seems we cannot throw them very far
Yes it seems we cannot throw them very far