The Absurd Report

Is it just me, or is there something fundamentally STRANGE about this presidential campaign? It strikes me as, well, just plain weird.

The two most unlikely candidates remain out of a field of, uh, unlikely candidates…. and they have Americans, of all political stripes, scratching our heads in wonderment and amazement that anyone, let alone the two giant political parties in America, would finally settle on Obama and McCain as their candidates.

Once again, Americans are going to have to make the awful choice of the candidate who seems to them to be the lesser of two evils. That is a horrible way to run a country. It is truly awful to expect a government to function well when the leadership is of such, ahem, “questionable quality”. No matter which one wins, Americans have such extremely low expectations of them that just surviving the next 4 years will seem like a rousing success… and it might well be!

I look at these guys and I cringe! One candidate is such a “lofty” personage that he only touches the ground on occasion. He speaks in oratorical gestures that are awe-inspiring. His beatific phrases are sweeping and all encompassing in their scope and their depth. His orations are musical in their poetic meter. His chin tilted upward, as he delivers his anointed wisdom, gives the impression that he is so “above it all” that he is doing the masses a great boon by making himself available just for them to hear. And with all the flourishes of words and phrases and punctuation… what does he say? What is his messianic message? Not a damn thing!

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