Tuesday, October 7, 2008

NASCAR and Politics, Again

It's becoming increasingly difficult to get excited about the upcoming election. Not that I was all that excited about it before but I at least looked forward to utilizing my right to have a say in who my leaders are. But now, exactly one month before the big day, I barely look forward to watching the second round of debates.


It's always the same ol' crap. "Change" and "Hope" and "Victory" and "middle-class" and "Wall Street versus Main Street"...crap, all of it pure crap served on a silver platter to ravenous pundits and talking heads. So much crap that it's not worth even hoping for something substantial to come out of either candidates' mouth. I would consider watching something else if the Big-3 networks would televise anything different (I only get CBS, NBC, and Fox). It's not like I won't have ample opportunity to get the gist of it from Youtube. But since they don't, I have no choice but to tune in.


Sometimes it feels as though I'm watching the event not so much to determine a winner, but to determine the biggest loser. It's almost like watching NASCAR just to see the wrecks - I watch the debate to see who has the biggest blunder, who tells the biggest lies, and who can avoid directly answering the most questions. And in the end, both competitors will have blown tires, scraped the wall, and had their fenders crushed in. Yet each will leave with a handshake and a smile and wait to see how much new material they've provided to the brilliant minds at Saturday Night Live.

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