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Entry: Restricting American Horizons

Infidel World looks at Restricting American Horizons:

Leadership is the criterion for electability. Judging by the responses I read to the debate I heard, America is being led into a supermarket full of false choices, between tans and heavy breathing. Meanwhile, reality, that elusive metaphysical, dumb blonde, is slipping away from American voters ever faster. Chief executives might only be figureheads, but for principles, too, not just brands. Both candidates are selling an image. For Kerry, it's consensus-building alliances based on cold hard fact; Bush is an improvisational puppet-master driven by core values. I see too many false choices here, and the one clear difference, permanent alliance, repels me. I want both brands of ketchup, both jars of pickles, and all the peanut butter. Bush has the future on his side, but no monopoly on the crystal ball. I want a useful compromise, not a sham contest from marionettes too selfish to see over the horizon.