Romney versus Reality

I know the link won't last long, but I had to post this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/us/politics/21cnd-romney.html

It's a story detailing republican candidate Mitt Romney's, er, "exaggerations." Romney is the candidate for those who like satire. He's the cartoon character among the Republican bunch this time around. The only one I see on the Democratic side who equals him in utter phoniness is Her Highness Hillary.

Every four years I keep wondering -- is this the best we can do? There are hundreds of millions of people in this country. Surely we can come up with a better collection of candidates than this! The presidential selection process resembles nothing so much as professional wrestling. The whole thing is scripted and fake. The truly sad thing is that this is how we select the single most powerful human being on the planet.