Wait, they've gotten worse since you got here?

Boys, I think you know what we need to do.

it's already been screwed.

Fear not, I shall do my part!

Ben, don't be Frank. I just got used to your name being Ben.

If it's been screwed, it's been screwed because we screwed it. Not somebody else, not the Republicans, not Bush, but us. If mistakes were made, if unjust wars were fought, if you don't like the way the country has gone, then it's because we allowed it to happen, and we're the only ones that can truly frelling change it. I've had it up to here with the "smart" apathy and cynicism of some people basically saying that the vote doesn't count. We've always had those in power, from King George III to the tobacco plantation owners, to robber barons to the corporations that now control the media and the government. Well, it's in their interest for you to be apathetic, it's absolutely in their interest for you to think your vote doesn't matter. It's in their interest for you to be kept fat, happy and anesthetized in front of mindless entertainment and distracted from the real issues of the day. Why? Because people in power have always been afraid of the people they rule. They fear the mob, they fear democracy, they fear the real power of the millions, because nothing can take away their power except those very millions. And when the people stop being fat, happy and anesthetized, when they realize that death, for instance, is really preferable to slavery and actually take action - at the very least voting, though it often takes very much more than that - then that's when we topple the dictators, that's when we free the slaves, that's when we break the backs of institutionalized injustice and win the half-victories that push us as a country and a world one stumbling step further on the road to a truly more perfect union -- or at least a less imperfect world.

That's all I got to say about that, as Forrest Gump said.

Is it time to jump to an alternative-universe America yet?

I think the solution is we vote to deport Ben back to England. Things have worsened since he arrived here.

No taxation without representation?

Personally, I don't like the idea of some whackey limey cartoonist telling me how I should vote.

Good thing I only asked America not to screw up this election, then.

Well, that's vague. I want to know who Snoopy would endorse.

"Personally, I don’t like the idea of some whackey limey cartoonist telling me how I should vote."

Y'know, he didn't actually *say* who you should vote for (although I can guess). Just not to screw it up.

We didn't screw it up, IMHO.

Personally, I tend to think that if it's clear from "don't screw this up" who you're being asked to vote for, and you vote for the other guy, you need to be removed from the gene pool.

Thanks, America. You've done good this time.

I like to think that my presence here in the States has had a generally positive impact.

You most certainly have! Or is that a positively general impact? Oh well, either way I know I'm glad to have you here!