Why Not Just Sell the Presidency on Ebay?

Wired reports that Amazon is now a conduit for Presidential campaign contributions, without any partisan leanings. Not a bad idea in and of itself, especially in light of Dean's huge on-line fundraising success. But it does exercise the imagination about all the creative ways that the affluent classes and corporate power structure wil be able to channel money to their favored mouthpieces. And then they can always tweak the voting machines, designed by Republicans without a paper trail and poor security, if that doesn't work.