It was with these questions thrashing around in my mind that I had to think: what are my obligations? What if it was 2002 and it really was like 1992--and I did nothing to prevent it?

Oh my gosh! What if it was 2002, and the man in the White House didn't carry a Palm device on his belt?

"Clearly, the guy who wears a Palm device and mentions it in his speeches has got to be the one we support."

I know my priorities. As Editor-in-Chief of PalmPower Magazine, I have to look at the choice that best suits my readers. Clearly, the guy who wears a Palm device and mentions it in his speeches has got to be the one we support.

And so, PalmPower Magazine endorses Albert Gore, Jr. for President.

This was a tough decision. George W's staff is made up of active Palm device users, as the article in Piloteer Magazine (at http://www.pmn.co.uk/public/piloteerxiii/vip.html) shows. But the candidate himself is not, by all accounts, a user of any handheld computing device, and so he's disqualified from our weighty endorsement.

Sorry, George.

It's also a tough decision because, frankly, neither of our candidates is what you'd call "best of show." I mean, Dubya's not Ronald Reagan, and Al Gore's no Bill Clinton. In my opinion, Reagan and Clinton were the two greatest presidents of the last thirty years. Reagan was an exceptional communicator, and his policies helped burn out the Soviets and end the cold war.

Clinton's economic efforts helped transform our country, putting us in the middle of the longest economic expansion in history. With more than 22 million new jobs, the lowest unemployment in 30 years, the lowest female unemployment in 40 years, the lowest Hispanic and African American unemployment ever recorded, and the highest home ownership in history, you can almost forgive the guy his love of cigars.

The fact is, Bill Clinton was a flawed leader. But we have gone from the largest deficits in history to the largest surpluses in history. And if the country stays on course, we can make America debt-free for the first time since Andy Jackson was President in 1835. For all his faults, Bubba did get some things right. For the first time in decades, wages are rising at all income levels. We have the lowest child poverty in 20 years, the lowest poverty rate for single mothers ever recorded. The average family's income has gone up more than $5,000, and, for African American families, its gone up even more. The number of families who own stock has grown by 40 percent.

Plus, the number of people who own Palm devices has climbed from zero to the millions. Of course, we can't credit any politician with such an important gain. But did you notice that as the numbers of Palm devices went up, so did the economy? There's got to be a connection. Maybe there's still time to elect Jeff Hawkins.

Sadly, our two current candidates aren't Reagan and Clinton. Bush and Gore are both good men, but they're almost like second-rate knock-offs, in a way. Little George is certainly not "the real" George Bush. The senior Bush, for all his lack of vision, was a formidable man, someone really worthy of the title "President." But Dubya is not a former war hero, not a former ambassador, did not head up the CIA, was not chairman of the RNC during Watergate, and did not serve as Veep under the Great Communicator for eight years. All we really know is that George W. is a great fund-raiser and kicked some people out of their homes so he could build a baseball stadium.