Candidate, Inc.

Disgusted that Romney is "Obama lite"?

Fed up because there's not a whit's worth of difference between the Dink and the Gopper?

Then you really need to read "Candidate, Inc." over at Rhymes with Cars & Girls.

If/when you vote for the President, you are not voting for Joe Candidate. You are voting for Joe Candidate, Inc. If Joe Candidate wins then yes, it’s true that one immediate and visible result will be that Joe Candidate will literally take over the role of the President and sit in that particular office. But that’s not all that happens and far from it. 

Simultaneously with Joe Candidate’s swearing-in will be a whole army of people to go fill a bunch of executive roles... all of those people, mostly nameless and faceless to you, will make a lot of decisions that affect your life. Perhaps even more so than any decisions specifically made by Joe Candidate himself per se...

I can certainly buy the idea that there are only minor differences between Obama and Romney. But both-the-samers are on far shakier ground trying to establish that there’s ‘not a dime’s worth of difference’ between Obama, Inc. and what Romney, Inc. would likely be like.

Go.  RTWT.