Greatest Country on Earth

Well tomorrow I take off for Barcelona, leaving this little hamlet of wealth and beauty called Aspen. Except for my extreme laziness of late, which resists movement of any sort, I'm exited. I'm sad that I will be missing the presidential debates, but also grateful to escape the insanity of this strange and awful campaign season. Two candidates are now running on a platform of change. Change Change Change. Well Bullshit. What exactly is going to change? Barack, the other night, and I've heard him say it a few times, said: "America is the greatest Country on earth." Sounds a lot like Sean Hannity to me. How exactly is America the greatest Country on earth? Is it our huge collection of nuclear weapons? Is it our wide variety of reality TV shows? Is it our great population of obese, and coastal enclaves of anorexia and bulimia? Barack, why would you say that we are the greatest country on earth? That is a stupid thing to say. I thought you were the guy to restore our reputation around the world. You know what those other countries are tired of? They are tired of Americans thinking that they are better than everyone else. We are not. There is no greatest country. And we are not high up on the list of greatest countries. We have most dictatorships beat. Countries all over the place have their own little and big problems. And we have more than our share. Greatest country on earth my ass. Mr. Obama, you are not helping restore my hope, and while you don't scare me as much as McCain, you are losing my faith. I'm off to Europe, where the wine tastes like wine, and people are a slight more mellow than in this haven of capitalist consumption and endless want for more. But i'll be back. I'll try and keep you informed.