I can’t remember the last time I was this dissatisfied about the state of our country. Call it depression call it recession call it anything you desire but in the end we all lose.

Patients with clinical depression will exhibit similar signs of those suffering from the economic depression we’ll all be feeling come November and the months and years to follow.

Lack of enthusiasm, moping around the house, loss of apatite and a significant loss of money from paying higher taxes and paying that therapist for your spendy sessions while you are trying to figure this all out will affect millions of hard working people.

This level of dissatisfaction is unfamiliar territory. If working through the worse housing market in recent history has not been depressing enough now we’ve arguably got two of the brightest bulbs in the country seeking the most powerful office in the world and the majority of America is not happy with either candidate.

One candidate lacks enthusiasm, partly from his age and partly from his eagerness to appear non-partisan. And the other, a virtual unknown scares the hell out of millions of voters. It’s not likely in the coming weeks we’ll see more enthusiasm from John McCain. John comes from a background of discipline where he’s expected to remain calm cool and collected and only on those rare occasions, when provoked, will he flare up and really show energy and I don’t think the opposition will push him to that point. Presidential politics is not the Senate floor so he’ll remain calm to his own demise.

Debates, interviews and speeches when McCain first ran for public office must have been fun to watch but it now appears that he’s lost the energy that excites voters, that includes the base.

What about the non-partisan aspect of campaigning? Can any presidential candidate be non partisan during a presidential campaign. The answer is no. From the beginning of time politicians have shone light on their opponents flaws, their policy differences and their inherent inability to speak the truth. This election cycle is no different but someone needs to tell that to John McCain.

He acts as if he’s trying to pass legislation in the Senate and not running for the Presidency. John McCain’s failure to identify and shine light on the numerous flaws in his opponents character, flaws in his opponents tax and spend policies, and his opponents obvious inability to speak honestly to the American people about why we should trust a tax hiker during a tumultuous time in the global financial market will ultimately result in John McCain failure to win the White House.

Over the course of the past ten years the meaning of certain terms has undergone dramatic changes which keeps Marian Webster quite busy. The term “feather” when talking about hair cuts below the collar is now a “mullet”. “Mobile” phones are now “cell” phones “bell-bottom” pants are now “flares”. Cars that were “lowered” are now “slammed” and now John McCain has lent new meaning to the term non-partisan. Weak.

While the base still remains cautiously optimistic about John McCain candidacy that optimism is waning quick and John McCain’s Vice Presidential pick Sarah Palin can not hold up the entire ticket on her own. Since John McCain’s current revelation (dropped like a bomb during the last debate) that the government should buy up failing mortgages, there is growing concern among supporters that his policies and eagerness to appeal to moderates is bringing him and Barrack Obama closer together on domestic affairs than anyone would have expected.

The base is starting to have serious doubts whether there a real clear choice on domestic policy between the two.

Barrack Obama is a spectacular speaker, an extremely charismatic person and very elegant in his delivery of partisan jabs. His ability to draw blood from John McCain without John knowing he’s been cut is uncanny and I’ve not seen such graceful political bloodletting in my lifetime which could explain John’s lack of energy.

It’s no wonder the base of Senator Barrack Obama is excited, energetic and hopeful. Barrack Obama’s ability to verbally link unrelated subjects into a web of distorted half truths and draw voters into those webs of diluted facts is astounding, but is it a matter of great wordsmanship or a referendum on the electorate?

At every opportunity while on stump speeches, interviews and debates, Obama’s eloquent partisan attacks have gone unchecked and unanswered by John McCain and it’s having a negative affect on John and a enormously positive affect on Barrack. Maybe John McCain needs to take some lessons from Barrack Obama.

While Obama’s attacks go unanswered so do his tax and spend policies. We are currently in the middle of a serious economic downturn which historically works in the favor of Democrats and John McCain has failed thus far to link Barrack Obama to the scandal that is this crisis. Although John made a slight mention of Obama’s link to Fannie Mae during the last debate he failed to connect the dots for the American people who do not pay close attention to the financial markets, so his shot across the bow of the Obama attack machine was lost in the ocean of voter nescience.

Sarah Palin can not be left alone to bring to the forefront for the American people questionable associations, alliances, damaging tax policies and links to this current crisis. John McCain needs to buttress Sarah Palin’s assertions that Barrack Obama is not ready for prime time. Without John’s support at every rally, every speech and every debate the mainstream media will not report on Obama’s radical alliances, dangerous lack of foreign policy experience and near socialistic tax plans and the American people will be left in the dark about who they are considering to be the next United States President.

Come November we all have a choice. A choice between a strong foreign affairs Republican candidate weak on domestic issues who lacks enthusiasm and energy and who’s domestic policies nearly mirror policies of the Democrats.

Or a Democrat who has no foreign affairs experience who would sit down with the leader of terrorist countries without preconditions and who’s tax and spend policies would grow government and cost a trillion dollars or more contributing to the largest expansion of government all at tax payers expense to advance his social agendas.

All we have to do is ask ourselves one thing. Come November, do we want death by lethal injection or death by hanging?….