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>  As things are, the candidates are unable to talk about  
> the serious issues because they are bombarded by media  bullets.

There's this verse in the Rubaiyyat:

"This inverted bowl we call the Sky
 Under which crawling cooped we live and die
 Lift not thy Hands to it for help
 For it rolls on impotently as thou or I"

Not only are the candidates not addressing the serious issues, what 
difference would it make if they did?  Oh, I suppose if a candidate came out 
as 
cheerleader for a massive reduction in life style and pledged to dedicate our 
remaining energy to public transportation rather than squeezing out one more 
pint of 
French fry oil for the SUV's, if they championed vigorous physical activity 
and clean food rather than another pill pushing program, that might be 
something 
different.  But then again, they wouldn't get elected would they?

So any of you recall an early Bill Murry flick called "Meatballs" where he's 
a counselor at a cheesy summer camp.  They have a contest with an upscale 
summer camp across the lake and when the dweeby camp director tries to give 
the 
nerdy campers a pep talk, Murry's character says they are going to lose no 
matter what, an it "really doesn't matter".  That gets to be a mantra by 
which he 
works them into a frenzy, "It really doesn't matter, it really doesn't 
matter!"

The credible candidate would give a speech like this:

We're sending you a $600 stimulus check.  That isn't going to change 
anything.  We have come up with a dozen different foreclosure bailouts, and 
you are 
still going to lose your house.  And you know, it really doesn't matter what 
we 
do.

We could plant every square inch of America in corn for ethanol, drill in 
ANWR and off the coast of Florida, dig up all the oil shale in the west, and 
mandate that every car get 50 mpg and ... it really wouldn't matter.  You 
STILL 
are going to have t park it.

So my imput isn't that Obama is good, bad, or indifferent.  It's that it 
really doesn't matter.  The real danger is thinking that it WOULD make a 
difference.  Put in Obama ..... or McCain, or Clinton, .... or Alfred E. 
Neuman .... it 
really doesn't matter.
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