HOME | POLITICS | SPORTS | LIFE | SCI/TECH | OPEDS | HELPFUL TIPS
|
July 21, 2004 The presidential election is getting closer. Who you going to vote for? Never mind, it’s none of my business. I think the candidates are interesting this year. We have two millionaires running on the Democratic ticket and two millionaires running on the Republican side. Which of these poor fellows is going to attempt to run our country? Here’s our choices: We have George W. who has been compared to a baboon or a monkey and John Kerry who looks like someone out of the “Night of The Living Dead.” We have Dick Cheney who used the infamous “f” word and John Edwards, who looks like a cross between a newscaster and Jimmy Carter. What a combo, huh? Things are heating up. John claims to be for all of us poor folks, but then again so does George. George claims we need to “stay the course” in Iraq, but so does John. They both claim that we’ll be better off with them as president, but then again so does Ralph Nader. I say we would all be better off with Hulk Hogan, but he quit the governorship in Minnesota. I’d like to see him in the ring (so to speak) with the Gerber Baby Food boys. America would probably vote for him. Right now I think America would vote for Lance Armstrong, especially if he wins the Tour de France again. Heck, I think George Foreman would win if the tide were just right (betcha we’d all have a free grill). What is wrong with our voting process? If you don’t have a few million bucks stashed away somewhere, you’ll never win the presidency. In fact, you won’t even be on the ticket. The ads on television are so phony; you can see right through them. It is almost embarrassing to have four grown men going at each other like a bunch of bullies in a gym class. It is so obvious that each of the contenders is seeking to find as much dirt on each other as possible. Why is that? Can’t they win on their own? I have noticed that local elections aren’t like that. Maybe it’s because the contestants live close to each other. They really do have to live in the same neighborhood. Maybe it’s because they’re closer to being poor than the big boys in D.C. Their retirement plans aren’t quite as lucrative. I would like to see campaign reform. I would like to see each candidate receive the same amount of money from the government, let’s say $100,000.00. That seems like a fair amount of money doesn’t it? If the candidate runs out of his/her $100,000.00 they must then depend on our great mass media for coverage. I’m sure that would be good news for ABC and the others. They could send in their herds of reporters and make even more money than they do now. Hmm, maybe the news agencies wouldn’t be all that supportive. Maybe they would be the ones calling the campaign shots, not good.
Gee, I don’t know. I guess there isn’t
a real workable solution. Wait, I think there
is a solution to it. Have the candidates arm
wrestle for the job. The cost would be low and
maybe the biggest wimp will lose. Starting
building your body up Arnold, I think it’s your
time.
|
||||||
|
|
|||||||
|
