Remember when your kids were young, and they sometimes hung around with someone who they thought was cool, but you thought was an idiot and dangerous? They couldn't see it, could they. That is what happened to the U.S. in the 2008 presidential election. Too many immature minded people voted for "cool" rather than competence and decency. We, "the parents" saw it happening, but we worried that our influence over "the kids" would not be great enough, or they would wake up too late, to prevent something bad from happening. We have a chance to fix it in Nov.