I sometimes wonder how many others are as frustrated as I? In both local and national races, I'm ready to vote for any candidate whose name I don't recognize. Over the last three decades, the Hawaii political process seems like a carousel. The same faces are sitting on the carved and painted animals going round and round. Every so often one grabs the brass ring and we get to vote for him or her. The machine spins again and another of the anointed grabs the ring. Perhaps that's one of the problems of living in what is essentially a small town. There's a very small pool of the "right folks" and we have to make do with the choices we have been given rather than the leadership we deserve. Oh wait, in a democracy, people do get the government they deserve. *sigh*

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