[LINK] How do the candidates rate?

[rfmcdonald]

Once, someone at the group blog Postive Liberty--I think it was Jason Kuznicki--wrote about the problems associated with the involvement of foreigners in American domestic politics, this involvement being motivated by the United States' extensive if n ot overwhelming presence in so much of the wider world. Sometimes this involvement can produce disastrous consequences, as the possibly disastrous effect of The Guardian's anti-Bush campaign in Ohio shows. The only thing that I qualified in saying--indeed, safe in saying--is that future American administrations should have as little influence from post-Trotskyites neoconservatives as possible. (Hail President Clinton?)

Well, that and that Elf Sternberg's presidential candidate website survey is hilarious. "John McCain. Bold. Maverick. Black. With a none-to-subtle silver star in a mililtaresque wingding. Lots of blue, not a lot of red. Good Web 2.0 sensibilities where needed, limited flash, reliable javascript. A thoroughly solid website, but weak on the jingoism we've come to expect from McCain. Is this man not a true American? Still, I like the site, even if it doesn't look campaign-y."

Go, read.