I AM SO DONE WITH THE ELECTION.
Sep. 2nd, 2008 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
I know who it is that I intend to vote for. I've made up my mind on that point, and I'm sure the cunning among you can figure it out.
If the news coverage was about the issues, I'd be interested. Heck, if all it concerned itself with was what the candidates consider to be the issues - and not what they cynically think the rest of us consider to be the issues - I'd be content.
But I'm so sick with "This will help so-and-so's campaign" and "This will hurt so-and-so's campaign" and "We have no idea how this will affect the election" and his wife did this and that person has a sucky family life and the other guy secretly eats babies...!
Just stop already. It's all so much fluff, and I am embarrassed to think that anybody would make up their mind on rumors and accusations and nonsense that has nothing to do with the issues at hand, however you define them.
If this candidate or that one says or does something that indicates that they're actually very well-suited (or not at all) for the office, go ahead and tell me. But until then, please, everybody, just SHUT UP for a change.
Honestly!
If the news coverage was about the issues, I'd be interested. Heck, if all it concerned itself with was what the candidates consider to be the issues - and not what they cynically think the rest of us consider to be the issues - I'd be content.
But I'm so sick with "This will help so-and-so's campaign" and "This will hurt so-and-so's campaign" and "We have no idea how this will affect the election" and his wife did this and that person has a sucky family life and the other guy secretly eats babies...!
Just stop already. It's all so much fluff, and I am embarrassed to think that anybody would make up their mind on rumors and accusations and nonsense that has nothing to do with the issues at hand, however you define them.
If this candidate or that one says or does something that indicates that they're actually very well-suited (or not at all) for the office, go ahead and tell me. But until then, please, everybody, just SHUT UP for a change.
Honestly!
