Can't we *please* have the general election now?
I'm so incredibly tired of politics. They're filthy and depressing and weigh on me like an itchy shirt. I'm tired of the rhetoric and the horseshit and the sniping. I'm tired of the nasty forwards from people trying to convince me that people are evil because they're female or black or conservative or...
Hell, if you're going to make a real *run* for president in this country, I'm fairly sure you can't be a decent person. I'm not sure a human being can keep his/her decency in that position. It's pretty obvious that lots of the people I know can't keep their decency about politics *now*. (Which is not to say that I hate when people talk about politics, etc. It means that I'm tired of the ugliness and that I can understand why people say they don't vote, they can't *care* about this, that it's just too much).
Really, all I care about is the facts. Period. I don't care about the wrangling crap. Honestly, I think we're all getting lied to constantly anyway.
All I know is that it's February and I'm already getting sick to my stomach every time I open CNN.
Hell, if you're going to make a real *run* for president in this country, I'm fairly sure you can't be a decent person. I'm not sure a human being can keep his/her decency in that position. It's pretty obvious that lots of the people I know can't keep their decency about politics *now*. (Which is not to say that I hate when people talk about politics, etc. It means that I'm tired of the ugliness and that I can understand why people say they don't vote, they can't *care* about this, that it's just too much).
Really, all I care about is the facts. Period. I don't care about the wrangling crap. Honestly, I think we're all getting lied to constantly anyway.
All I know is that it's February and I'm already getting sick to my stomach every time I open CNN.
posted by Auntie Pooh @ 11:21 AM
2 Comments:
At 2:17 PM,
Jean said…
I hate presidential election years.
They should just publish something on the web and in newspapers that states all the facts, compare the candidates equally on paper, have maybe one debate where we can all hear them talk so we know if they're actually real people (decent or otherwise *g*) and then hold the damn election.
All the campaigning and the posturing and the mudslinging makes me crazy.
At 8:22 PM,
Marcie said…
I have to say that the "best" campaign I have ever witnessed was Senator Bill Nelson of Florida in 2006. He never said a negative word about his opponent; he focused on what he's done in the Senate and what he hopes to do. It was a joy to watch.
I just wish the rest of them would learn something from that.
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