Do you believe everything you hear from our political leaders? Do you believe that they take their oath of office seriously? Can we trust that we are getting the truth, nothing but the truth, so help them, as they shall answer to God?

The answer for me is undisputably, "No." They all lie; they all keep secrets. They all confirm what James Madison and some guy named Jefferson were worried about 230 years ago – a national government run away from, beyond, and without the people.

We live in an era of a shrinking voter base and the politicians know it. They can depend on their sheep – the applicable groups that vote one way or the other and never veer. They chase the so-called independents. Are these the ones who understand the issues, or are they the ones waiting to get the answers they want to hear before walking into that booth?

I believe that the politicians of this country, those who want us to vote for them, are no more honorable than the ones we have elected to the office of the president over the past 50 plus years. Take a look.

Truman never saw a Jew or black man worth saving. He did his best to avoid the subject of civil rights. He is remembered for his valor in dropping a nuclear bomb to save American soldiers in the Pacific theater. But, his domestic policies, including the concept of nationalizing Youngstown Sheet and Tube, were morally bankrupt.

Eisenhower was nothing more than a fill-in-the gap Republican. He was lucky on 6/6/44 and he played golf like he wanted that to be his full time job for 8 years. He was old and worn out when he got the job and did nothing to prove those sentiments wrong from ’52 to ’60.

JFK never liked to leave his rocking chair, unless, of course, Marilyn Monroe was waiting at the White House pool. He knew more about Tampa Bay than the Bay of Pigs and, boy did it ever show. 1,500 ill-prepared troops would overtake 60,000 Cuban troops and deliver the island to the freedom seekers. He almost blew up the world over missiles on that same island. A few aged and well-admired advisors saved the day from a military that wanted to blow us all up.

LBJ lied and 57,500 men died under his watch. This Texas-born SOB hated nothing more than the blacks until one Martin L. King, Jr. started telling him that the whole country was going to blow up if he didn’t get the Voting Rights Act passed. This guy let General Westmoreland call the shots and thought that the best and the brightest was a new rifle he could shoot on his farm.

Nixon almost took us down. This guy ran backwards to China to save his ass. He fought the good fight in Vietnam, just long enough to get re-elected. He thought obstruction of justice didn’t mean he lacked the authority to tell "his" FBI what to do with that damn Watergate break-in story in the Washington Post.

Jerry Ford never wanted to be president and it showed.

Carter won and we had 20% inflation to show for it. He produced a partial settlement of a 2,000 year old problem and cancelled our Olympic participation over Russia’s invasion of some place called Afghanistan.

Reagan was too old from the start. He blew up the unions, destroyed the concept of a balanced budget, sold arms to so-called freedom fighters, lied about it, changed his 40-year-old platform of anger at the Russians, and left us with his vice-president to get it all worked out.

H.W. Bush won a war and lost an election to a horny governor from Arkansas. Can you find Arkansas on a map?

Clinton had sex with an intern in the closets down the hall from the Oval Office. Are you kidding me? He ignored the horrors in Africa. He called for lots of things. He was only saved by the glory of the resilient American economy.

Gore couldn’t remember how to smile and we got George W. This guy said he was against nation-building and over 3,500 soldiers have died calling him a liar. The deficit that increases under this man will never, ever be recaptured.

We are left with a nation at risk. Saudi Arabia owns Citibank; Dubai owns Merrill, Lynch; China owns our bonds; Japan owns our notes. We are the greatest debtor nation in the history of the world. More people watch American Idol than read a newspaper each day. Dancing with the Stars is the most highly rated show of the week and no one really cares about the lack of medical insurance for 50 million people. 50 million people.

So, I believe it is time to do one of the following: stop voting, vote them all out of office, or elect a black, female, Jew, Mormon, gay, or lesbian. Because these white, male guys have done nothing for me lately, or over my lifetime.