making mudpies...

Here in the midwest we have had our share of rain this year so we could easily sit in all the mud left over and make mud pies suitable for slinging until probably the next decade arrives.  We choose to instead find a way to use that mud to create something better for ourselves.  

Not so John McCain.  Instead of focusing on what the issues are and how he might run the country, he has to find a way to tear down the other candidate.  So typical of the Republican tactics a la Karl Rove and his ilk.  If you can't win focused on the issues- try to win by negative campaigning.  It is so transparent and so inauthentic and yet there are, sadly, those who will blindly follow his rhetoric.  

I had truly hoped that by this time, almost a decade into the the new millennium, we would have gotten beyond the negative ad campaign and been able to truly focus on what was important for the voters in America to understand about the candidates in order to make an informed decision.

OH! Silly me, it's happening - just not the way I expected!  Go ahead, John keep on keepin' on - the rest of us will focus on what's important for the country and you will become even less relevant than you are right now.  Does anyone else hear fingernails on a chalk board?