By Stu MacKay
For at least a year – and probably longer – we have been bombarded with an audio and video barrage of conflicting philosophies from an increasingly (but fortunately) smaller number of aspirants to political offices of every size, shape and description. This process, we are told, is completely legal – even when the arguments advanced range from the generally rational (infrequent) to the completely ludicrous (far too often).
From my perspective, the frequency and volume of this intrusion should be as illegal as is waterboarding at Guantanamo. If the message can’t be expressed in a sentence or two – and delivered only once or twice – then it should be prohibited. Any further pronouncements should be grounds for a capital offense!
I trust these views are stated clearly enough to establish my credentials as a conservative curmudgeon. I find the current process apparently now necessary for an individual first to be nominated and then elected an outrageous affront to the sensibilities of any individual willing to be subjected to this repetitive drivel. But, on the other hand, if we as a nation are willing to pay money to endure endless hours of “Lost,” “Survivor,” “Judge Judy” and “The Biggest Loser,” maybe we deserve the current political circus.
And, on the topic of circuses, if this excruciating campaign process is deemed so necessary, why in the world don’t we wind up with better elected officials. I am undoubtedly biased as an Illinois resident (motto: “Our governors make license plates”) – but New Yorkers and residents of other states cannot be any less ashamed.
Congress? Where in the world do we get these people! Did you and I really pull the lever that established these folks as permanent DC residents controlling our future? Shame on us!
At any rate, at least for a few months, all this political nonsense should be behind us. Unfortunately, now the scary part begins. Now we get to see what really happens when those individuals who talked the longest and loudest start playing with our money (what little we have left after bailing out the wizards of Wall Street).
Does it bother you that the pilot and co-pilot now in charge of flying the government beast have never before been in the cockpit – much less gone through any flight training? Give me U.S. Air’s Captain Sully, please, and let the amateurs sit in back.
