Election

Not being an American Citizen, I can’t really criticise too heartily about the election going on in the States right now, but since many members are in the US, I suppose I get a Free Pass. 

Most of what I’ve seen so far on the tube has me highly confused.  As best as I can tell, no candidates are FOR anything.  They are AGAINST everything their opponents ever thought of, mentioned in passing, voted upon, dreamed while drunk, or upchucked in the sink.  I suppose this explains the tremendous voter turnout in the US.  The whole campaign has been, to quote Dennis Miller, “No I’m not, YOU ARE!”.

I want to see some kind of Truth in Advertising Code applied to political ads.  Unfortunately, paid political ads are specifically exempt from the FCC Advertising Code and the AdCouncil Truth in Advertising rules, just so you know where the truth bar is drawn.

Imagine if the same rules were applied to regular TV ads:  “We’re General Motors and our cars CURE cancer.  If you drive a Ford, you’ll die in a horrid fireball and your kids will suffer permanent disfiguring injuries…”.  Or….”Wheaties, Breakfast of Champions and All-Around Americans.  Eat another cereal and you support Terrorists, Bin Laden and even Saddam.  And you colon will explode”

Not that we’re any better up here.  Canada tends to anoint politicians, much like the Conclave of Cardinals at the Vatican.  For proof of this, look at the Liberal Party and their collection of criminals, muck pouts and bottom feeders.

Let us not mention Florida and the New Math method of vote counting.  It brings back the old Tammany Hall days of New York and the Cicero Rule of Voting from Chicago:

“Vote Early…Vote Often”