It's Only March!!!

We have three primary candidates right now. One is African American, one is woman, and one is in his seventies. All three have some unique issues and perspectives they bring to the table. All also have one thing in common, there are people who are ardently against all of them. Obama has the detractors of his inexperience. Hillary is seen as divisive, McCain isn't conservative enough. The other thing they all have in common is that they more than enough money to keep their faces in front of for another six months.

The election is...God be merciful...235 days from today. For the next 235 days...the number is hard to choke down...we are going to hear about every flaw and crack these people have. Eventually it will be whittled down to two primary candidates. But then you will find out why they aren't worthy to serve. Oh everyone promises to run a positive campaign but apparently we don't like them because it is the negative ads that work. We listen to them and they keep cranking them out.

Can we do this differently? Can't we make them write a term paper on "Why I Ought to Be President"? make it 30 pages and they have to tell us what they are going to do about the economy or immigration or the war or how to fix our infrastructures. Or maybe a power point presentation,that worked pretty well for Al Gore. or a diorama like you had to make in the 3rd grade. It's 3 am in the morning, enough already, leave us alone for a while. Or maybe make the people in Michigan and Florida e-mail their votes in since they didn't get to play in the primary season, they had detention for some reason. They didn't stay in line or something.

I am all for democracy, it just seems too Junior High the way we are going about it now. In my neck of the woods there was special election for a house seat and the campaign was miserable, negative and sad. The democrat won, but he has run again in the fall and the Republican loser gets another shot at it then. Wonderful. There ought to be an adult mature method of selecting our leaders. Any ideas? Maybe we have what we deserve and earned. I hope not. I hope it can get better.