Election Issues Today

Frequent visitors to this site may notice the new header look.  By getting rid of the photo I hope to have speeded up the loading process.

And, although we are OFTEN presented with “NEW LOOKS,” whether a web page or a political candidate, the content remains the same.   We bloggers and politicians alike are often full of ourselves and full of other stuff too.

Mostly though, I notice that politicians are full of “nastiness”  or should we spell it “nastyness” like the movie, “Pursuit of Happyness” for politicians and political parties alike, “Happyness” means “winning the contest” and “getting elected.”

As the days remaining for campaigning become fewer and fewer, and the electorate tires of the same ol’ advertisements, repeated phrases and triteness, we will again see politics turn nasty.  The candidates will turn nasty, the ads will turn nasty, and the entire process will again leave a “nasty” taste in our mouths.  We will ask, Why?  Why do the candidates always revert to looking for Dirt?  Telling Lies.  Using Innuendo.

I think most every political candidate–at least in the final Presidential Race–pledges to run a clean campaign, a campaign based on issues, on ideas, on the future; for our children, for the Public Good.

But it never fails: Panic sets it.  “Gotta Win” mentality takes over.  We can’t Lose and have it be said that we didn’t use something, some weapon, some tactic, that could have won it for us.  Kind of like warfare.  Real warfare, where a country says they won’t use nuclear weapons….but….just wait until they are in imminent danger of losing.  So…this is off the subject…but nuclear proliferation amongst third world countries almost guarantees that a nuke will be used against the citizens of another country at some point, just because of the “LAST DITCH EFFORT” to avoid losing.  It sometimes works in politics.  Why not in war?

Last Ditch Effort.  Will we see the beginning of this during the next Presidential Debate?  Yes.

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