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It will be fun. Let's start with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Then we'll hit the second tier candidates like Richardson and Biden. Also, it might be fun to see how much money these candidates wasted on fancy shoes and expensive dining experiences.
While we're at it, let's document each and every item we've bought in the last year and figure out how many starving children in Third World countries we ripped off because we wasted our money on that new Dixie Chicks CD, rather than cutting a check to UNICEF. I'll start. In my fridge is a hunk of Stilton cheese I spent $9 on, rather than buying some cheap Kraft orange cheese that does not go nearly as well with my $8 six pack of microbrew porter. That's $17 of sheer unbridled excess. I'm such a bastard.
Bottom line. Rich people run for president. Don't like it? Tough, welcome to Corporate America. No matter who you support in the '08 election, the odds that that person is wealthy and spends money on items you consider excessive is somewhere in the neighborhood of 100%. Find an exception to that and I'll show you a primary loser who'll drop out by South Carolina.
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