I just switched off the vice-presidential debate. What garbage. I really love theatre; the kind where actors memorize lines and entertain. The two actors on stage tonight are reciting lines that they’ve memorized, and they’re doing a really bad job of it.
They aren’t addressing real issues, neither of them has said one thing about the economy or healthcare, and I doubt they’re going to say anything substantial about anything else.
When will we have a wildcard in these debates? When will we have someone who actually brings up real issues and makes real arguments? Not any time soon…
It is my personal mission to become wealthy enough to fund a Libertarian campaign for president that is large enough to become a part of the debate. I can only imagine how those two would squirm on stage against someone like me. Make no mistakes: in four years, they will recast this play. The actors will be different (half of them anyway) but the lines will be the same, the stage will be the same and America’s problems will be worse. Nothing will change until a rational individual comes along and gets ahold of one of those microphones.
I’m still going to vote for Bob Barr. Ten minutes of their bullshit was enough. Now I’ll go bury my head in a biochemistry textbook. I think there are some real correlates there: these actors obvious both have trisomies, and their arguments suffer from osteogenesis imperfecta!
