Would it Have Been Okay if it Was a Comedian?

I don’t think I’ve ever before heard so much garbage spewed in a campaign, especially Presidential. This is the worst mud-slinging I’ve seen or heard in my 40 years of adult life. Suddenly everything is being used to cast aspersions on the first black who’s ever seriously had a chance at becoming the nominee, from his clothing on an overseas diplomatic trip (Obama wearing Somali clothing) to his middle name (Obama's middle name is Hussein) to his ex-Pastor (Jeremiah Wright was retired) to whether or not he salutes the flag (Does Obama salute the flag?) to how he got elected to his first public office. (He knows how to play hardball if he has to.) No one made such a huge deal about Bill Clinton falling asleep in the pulpit of a church, (During an MLK ceremony no less!) or Pat Buchanan saying what he said, (A Brief for Whitey) This pastor that they’re now saying is talking about white people crying (So Pfleger told a joke, so what?); why is that being used to sling more mud on Obama? He didn’t say it! The man is not on Obama’s staff, so what on earth does he have to do with it? So they know each other, SO WHAT?

I’m getting so fed up with this; all the young people who’ve never voted before, never even been interested in the political process, now they are and what do they get as their first example of ‘democracy in action’? They get two Democratic candidates acting like toddlers on the playground fighting over a tricycle; one who shouldn’t have it for a lot of reasons but determined to get it anyway, whatever the cost, and the other too small (not ready) for it but still determined to get it. This race is to determine who’s going to govern this country, not who’s going to get the high score on a video game. It’s not for a gold medal; it’s for leadership of 304,216,307 people. (As of 2:30 PM EST on May 31)

The person who wins the Democratic nomination doesn’t ‘beat’ the other person; whoever gets the nomination is the person that the citizens of this country felt was the one they trusted to lead them for the next four years. Who do you trust? The bully that’s slinging mud trying to blacken (no pun intended) the name of the new person on the playground because they’re afraid that person is better than them? Or do you trust the person who realizes that this is not some kind of schoolyard contest, and understands that they are dealing with people’s lives here? The person who isn’t out to win a personality contest, the person who isn’t trying to win because they feel like something is owed to them, but is trying to win because they feel they’re better for the job? This is what you have to decide, who do you trust?