I'm not cut out for politics

Every major election year I get a little fired up. Sometimes more then others. I always like to believe that my civic pride and rampant liberalism will take hold of me but the fact is I usually end up annoyed. We've still got two weeks until election day and I already want to smash my TV and coming from me, that's like committing suicide. Living in a battleground state like Minnesota (god that pains me to write that) we've seen a ton of national money flood our races and our airwaves. In addition to numerous close house races, we've got a Senate seat and a Governor race going on and that's like spanish fly to the RNC and DNC. It strikes me as odd that so much money is spent since only about 3 out of 10 US citizens actually take the time to vote and I honestly believe that half of them already have their mind made up months before election time.

Sometimes political advertisements can be both entertaining and informative. At the risk of invoking his name too often on this blog the late great Senator Paul Wellstone was a master at this. In fact it was a huge factor in transforming him from a little known college professor to a legitimate challenger against a long time incumbent. He then used it again to get re-elected in '96. Take a look.


These days there is no creativity or information in these ads and it goes to both sides of the aisle. Take our current race for Senator. Democrat Amy Klobuchar seems nice enough but when you come off with personality of a wet sponge you might want to spice it up a bit and actually tell us something other then you want to stand up for people. Isn't that what representing your constituence means Amy?



Then you've got her opponent Satan spawn Mark Kennedy who offers us this little bit of DISINFORMATION.


How some people can still keep a straight face and associate Iraq with the "war" on terror is amazing to me. My friend and I busted out laughing when we saw it on Sunday especially for the closing line. Unfortunately, this is seen as effective advertising. Honestly I'm to the point where I just want to wake up on November 8th and have my airwaves back. Of course this could all be fixed if we publicly funded campaigns with set limits. Each candidate with an equal budget? Wow then we might actually get a real representative government.