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I don't think a Presidential race has ever looked more like a nation of squabbling children.
The candidates bicker like teens who have to share a bedroom. Their acolytes spread malicious gossip. Party loyalists dream of a ticket that resembles a politically correct homecoming couple. The news media (Salon included) treats this as if it's a popularity contest, Biff versus Buffy, and ask us to believe their ownership by corporate conglomerates, themselves owned by military-industrial monoliths, have nothing to do with their juvenile coverage. The general voters wander from classroom to classroom, watching the clock, measuring time as the distance between recess and lunch, recess and "school's out."
I'm a seething political animal and I'm bored of this goddam election. It's just like high school, with the news more relevant or intriguing than the "anonymous" gossip page of the high school paper. HC dissed BO in the hallway! What cute lawyer was seen pending fifteen minutes on hi sharing the boys bathroom?!
I can't imagine any candidates more bland than the cardboard cutouts presented by the political parties as the cream of their crop. America must be suffering a severe political blight if these joker are our best produce.
