Baseball Stopped being our national pastime many years ago. As time goes by, I'm becoming more and more convinced that our new hobby is good old fashioned superficiality. We really are a bunch of arrogant, synthetic, self indulging whiners. Never has this been more apparent to me than as I have observed the current presidential election.
Lets be honest...it's been quite a while since anyone really cared about anything other than big pretty issues in one of these things. It's been like a race for high school presidencies for decades. Big flashy over publicized popularity contests. We want a president who looks good leading us around and isn't afraid to wave america's big old political phallus.
But I think we've finally passed into the realm of idiocy now. Does anyone know anything about Obama other than he's black and wants things to change? Hell, we don't have a clue what he wants to change, and how he's going to do it? Far too close to two step thinking there. Everyone's so busy trying to decide if "America's ready for a black president (shore does talk good for a black fella, though, don't he?)" That no one seems to realize that the guy might actually be in possession of some original ideas. Not that he's a victim here. Do you think McCain's people have even considered the possibility of seriously courting the black vote? Think they might concede that one? Any doubt that every person who said O.J. was innocent will vote for Barack? And there are more than enough of us who will vote out of guilt.
Then we have the old war horse. OK, we get it. Prisoner of war and all that. But while I have an enormous amount of respect for the man's service to our country, I hardly see how that qualifies him to sit in the big chair. And again, does anyone know what the hell he believes in beyond the swing issues?
Bottom line here is that we'll vote for whoever we think looks good behind that podium. We're not being courted by candidates anymore, we're being marketed a product. Why? It's who we are. We are the fat. The Greedy. The Great consuming machine. No one realized just how prophetic Cobain was.... "Here we are now, entertain us." Indeed. All the way to the Oval Office.
