Is anyone out there listening?

I just watched the "Presidential Debate." I hope that I was not the only one to experience fear and loathing when listening to "our candidates." Two more compulsive liars have yet to prance forth on center stage during prime time. Really. I consider myself an independent ... at least from the idiocy that passes for partisan politics in this country. But who represents me? Nader (nadir)? Kerry-- a man without a genuine belief in his body? Bush a mean playground bully without the ability to structure a complex sentence (it would be worse if this was all a sham playing to the folksy masses)? More tomorrow when I get the chance to hear the spin-meisters spew their interpretation of the nights events.