Obama or McCain

Until the selection of Joe Biden as his running mate there was some hope that Barack Obama would at the very least do no harm in the drug theater.Biden is poison to drug reform and to the whole drug issue.He is the architect of most of the really draconian legislation that's come down over the course of his unrepentant career.McCain is just a relic of a bygone era in which the country was tearing itself apart over a foreign war and the loudest of those opponents,that McCain often reminisces about being spit on by(whether it actually happened or not,he believes it did)hippies,who the old man sees as drug addicts and his enemy.His performances in town halls with dying medical marijuana patients was unforgivable and anyone that calls themselves a reformer and would vote for such a man is on the wrong bus.I learned a lesson on elections here in Canada where I had the choice of allowing a Harper candidate to win or voting for a party I had zero respect for and even less of a choice.At least the man was palatable.Stephen Harper is a dictator who rarely allows anyone else to speak at all.As such,he bears the responsibility for the backward direction in Canada's drug policy that began the day he took office.The fact that 55% of us(for small)want legal marijuana was not only brought up in only negative terms but caused the dismissal of two NDP candidates for past use.This happened one day after the party sent me an e mail claiming to want decriminalization.They may want it but they would never admit it and on the rare occasions that it was brought up,the candidate and the leader bristled and denied any allegiance with reformists.I seems that while a majority of Canadians are in favor,it's not nearly enough.I don't know what the magic number is but it's not 55%.Democracy has never been a majority rule in Canada because what ever side is split,and now it's those on the left,has to share the vote while the right is united.37% 0f 59% of the country are running the show.That's not what I was taught that democracy is all about.I hope you have better luck down south but as it stands I have no Idea how.McCain would be a disaster and Biden is even worse.While your country seems to see the error of it's prohibitionist ways,your candidates don't get it.Electing third party or reform minded candidates is at least an option down there.Here we have one vote for one person and that gives us what amounts to no choice at all.