in the middle of this monstrosity of a hurricane/cyclone, there is one arena blessedly silent - the politician's have lowered their voices to a dull roar. supposedly out of respect for the 60 million americans in harm's way.
i don't care what it took - this political obsessive is exhausted and burned-out from the babbling voices, my own choices of candidates included.
it's become fashionable every now and then to declare that THIS moment in political discourse is the nastiest, most partisan yet. however, i think this current cycle truly is one of the most disgusting, despicable time periods, with few, if any, redeeming characters present. i'm bone-tired of hearing who said what first and why. usually i thrive on political analysis, can't get enough of it. but not this go-round. hope it's not about me aging, or me anything - i hope we truly have hit bottom.
i read earlier today that we could be heading for a gore/bush moment - al gore won the largest percent of voters, but lost the election. this analyst i was reading, and i'd read the same thing a few days previously, was saying this time it could be romney who wins the popular vote, but obama who gets the electoral college and thus all the marbles.
if so, then it will have happened to each party once within a 12 year time span, and then maybe there'd be a critical mass ready to get rid of the electoral college. at which point the nations emits a huge sigh of relief.
me, i just want a little more respect back in the process. a lot less hate-mongering, a lot fewer podiums for the ann coulter's of the world. a little more honesty - no, make that a LOT more honesty.
and for now i'm happy for a couple days break in the action.
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