My first inclination

My first inclination regarding this coming election in November was that it would be a competition between the two most sound-bite oriented phony, false and wooden politicians that were running on both sides. Well, after a brief brush with giddy and irrational optimism following Iowa, I now realize I was right the first time.
Ladies and gentleman prepare yourselves for that exciting night now!!! That rip-roaring debate somewhere around mid-October. Clinton and Romney!!! Yeah!! See which one has memorized their focus group tested sound-bites correctly designed to appeal to single-mothers with daughters between 10-12 whose income is between 15,000 and 15,500 dollars and who take their girls to soccer practice daily and attend church weekly, oh yes...and whose main concern is a dirty bomb going off in Cleveland because they live in Chickenshit, Ohio.
I can't wait. But no results anywhere now will change my mind:Romney versus Clinton....in the end they are the ones backed by their respective parties machines and they are the ones who tell the voters what they want to hear.
The only thing that might throw a wrench in that match-up is the specter of a collapsing economy. Incessant sound-bites are not, to mind, what people want to hear as they see the economy in collapse. Though maybe I'm wrong there too, maybe thats what they want even more in bad times.

John.