[Stardust]

You just don't get it, Hoot... Barack Obama is a flea on a Mammoth's backside, as is all the worrying over winning and losing elections.
As a person of Native American heritage, it is interesting what Lieutenant James Calhoun wrote before the Wounded Knee massacre (he was serving under George Armstrong Custer)....

The hives of industry will take the place of dirty wigwams. Civilizations will ere long reign supreme and throw heathen barbarism into oblivion. Seminaries of learning will raise their proud cupolas far above the canopy of Indian lodges, and Christian temples will elevate their lofty spires upward towards the azure sky while places of heathen mythology will sink to rise no more. This will be a period of true happiness.

I want Barack Obama to win in 2012 in the way I'd prefer a tropical storm to a hurricane, not because he's all that desireable, but because, to my view, I'm choosing less damage and threat. I do NOT believe that government owned industry and state regulation of people in minutia, or even in the main, is ANY GOAL WHATSOEVER of this President. I think you're a hack for spouting that vitriol on this site. The question, from above quote is this: given the empirical data coming in from all over the planet, has an increasingly industrialized world, that has throw native peoples globally into nigh oblivion, been a "period of happiness" for this planet... or, a period of incredible exploitation and waste and destruction, where human beings willingly, for instance, kill 80 million sharks a year so that rich Chinese and Japanese can eat shark fin soup? Unsustainable, immoral, reckless and arrogant.

Mammoth's were really, really big, which would make Barack the Flea the biggest pest that our time has ever seen. Unfortunately it's going to take more than a fyl-swatter to whack this insect!