Getting Tired of Political Campaigns

My brother-in-law is forbidding my sister to watch the news shows when he is home at night, he thinks she's become too obsessive when she talks back to the television. Now that we've voted, we're finding that the constant barrage of leaflets and phone calls is annoying, just please take us off of your list...

One of the things I learned from the Ted Stevens trial, is that cons can pursue and serve political office. This may give our jail population something constructive to pursue in the near future, and we may see the rise of a new political party, the Con Party. And if one won, would we then have to let him out, or would it be like a work release program? Ironically, you can run for office, maybe even serve, you just can't vote.

Every morning we stealthily turn on the television and watch coverage of the political rallies. I've come to the conclusion that you really can't teach an old dog new tricks. Old dog McCain can't stop attacking his opponent personally. Because he's been rich and privileged all of his life and been sheltered by being a Senator for 26 years, he has had no contact with people who work for wages. Instead of being flesh and blood people with lives and histories, we are reduced to caricatures like Joe the Plumber or Joe Six Pack.

And the powerless and defunct right wing is throwing words out like "socialism," as if that's a fearful and scary thing these days after the fall of Russia. It doesn't have the negative connotations with younger people, and doesn't conjure up a bogyman like "communism" once did. Only angry old white men are left to salivate and write boring opinion pieces about how dangerous change can be.