where are the statesmen?

one of this blog’s most faithful readers emailed me to ask where was my take on the VP debates. she’d apparently been awaiting hellfire and brimstone with bated breath.

i am, like every other american, utterly exhausted with the campaigning at this point. i read all the post-debate opinion pieces and the liveblogs before watching the debate myself, in bed on my iphone the following day. and what i saw left me too sad to write.

i don’t have a television, have never owned one (except for a 6-month bout of temporary insanity having to do with an entirely impossible relationship — when he went, the TV went) (to someone else). i suppose youtube qualifies as a quasi-TV, but i’m okay with that as most tubes don’t bother to assault you with commercials. so for me, watching the 90-minute debate straight through, after having only seen snippets of both candidates beforehand, was eye-opening. illuminating. shocking and sick-making.

the republican party is doing their best to get a halfwit winking bimbo into the white house, one not even well-read enough to know what an “achilles heel” is. and not even a well-meaning bimbo, either, as quite a few alaskans would attest.

this is john mccain’s idea of public service: he’s willing to inflict a brainless incompetent on the whole country if it gives him a better shot of winning the election. too bad that joe biden’s too much of a gentleman to take the rude pundit’s advice.

during the last election, my father (a lifetime republican, and i better not argue with him about it neither, these kids today) asked “where are the statesmen? don’t we have them any more?”

guess not, dad.

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