The pending election is palpable, I suspect the dropping of the writ will occur today, unless our current GG is off traipsing around some distant country on our dime. Just in time, and I hear on morning radio the discussion of our election versus their election.
Of course the debate was prepared ahead of time, before all the trailer trash stories in the saga of veep candidate Palin started showing up, and there's almost another one every news cast. So the discussion is charisma versus no charisma.
I think the downside is that the charisma channel tends to bring with it a package of bad decisions and trashy stories. In comparison, I'm glad to say that our elections are a little tamer. Certainly less vetting of candidate family members, but also fewer knee jerk 'card' playing to counter the opposing party's positions.
The most we get (thankfully) is a carefully orchestrated shot of Liberal Dion arriving for a meeting in a Prius, and stories of his dog being named Kyoto. That's enough of that sort of stuff for me.... though as I said earlier, finding a leader with the ability to articulate a vision and address issues head-on would be nice.
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