Lurking in the Background:

The presidential race is more than just about whether the country will elect a young man of mixed racial heritage or an old white guy whose biggest claim to fame is that he spent five years in a North Vietnamese prison. The average age of the nine justices who sit on the Supreme Court is 75, and sometime within the next four years it is all but a certainty that the next president will be nominating at least one replacement justice, perhaps even several. (See today's Washington Post.)

While the country expects its president to provide a vision for where the country should go and the congress to provide funding and laws to help us get there, it is often the supreme court that actually allows us to progress in one direction or another. It was the Supreme Court who started us on the road that helped make it possible for an African American to finally run for president and to allow women to finally have access to legal and safe health care. And it was the Supreme Court who brought George Bush into the White House so that he could lead the country into an immoral war by propagating lies.

What the Dude had to say back in June of 2003: "I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things." — George W. Bush (The truth will out.)