George McGovern

Was he the last truly decent man in American politics? Certainly one of the few. I watch W. do his best Nixon imitation as he stumps yet again before a hand-picked audience for "stay-the-course-of-criminality-and-disaster." How is it, I wonder, that such an imbecile is free to walk the streets, free to spout his mouth off and parade his ignorance on the world-stage with impunity and--worst of all--in my name? With McGovern, we see the face of a decent, intelligent American, a Henry Fonda-esque figure, a man of conscience and courage. With Bush, we see the poster-boy of Selfishness and Sadism, Greed and Cruelty, religion-inspired bigotry and crony-capitalism, American-style.

And I fear we are only testing the upper limits of how low we can go.