Getting Ridiculous

Wouldn't it be great if we could get all the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth together with all the Texans For Truth in a small room, bolt the door, and drop the key off in a swamp somewhere? Or better yet, box them all up and Fed Ex the whole lot off to an early retirement in the Azores or somewhere else that is remote and without access to any video equipment.

We are facing an election that really does matter, where really important things are at stake, and we're spending our time watching a blind and deaf, but unfortunately not mute, feeding frenzy on the evening news. What's the next big scandal? Bush's grade school report cards to prove that he skipped out on 5th grade gym class? Band-aids from Kerry's 10 year old knees to show that he cried one time even when he wasn't really hurt that bad?

And the candidates aren't helping things any. All we're getting from them is the same chewed up and spit out code words that our political system has been batting around for years. It's ugly, it's brainless, and like Bush said today, "It's the most tired, pathetic way to campaign for the presidency." For the first time in this entire campaign, I completely agree with him.