[cryptical]

Think of how depressed you’d be with a President Gore or Kerry. It could be a LOT worse.

There's gotta be a name for that kind of statement, e.g. "Politician X is bad" "Yeah, but so-and-so would be *worse*".

Totally useless statement of fact that doesn't address the issue raised at all.

[Fudd Fan]

Sorry we disagree. The difference is, I’m not being snotty.