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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 373155" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p><strong>"I hate this election campaign. Both political parties have been so careful to not offend, they're not dealing with the issues. But we have a PM whose capability is not showing (due to the caution) and another candidate whose incompetence is not showing (because of the caution). So everything is as boring as batsh** and nothing looks like happening."</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Marg, we've had just the opposite here, and that's equally as bad! Most of the Senate races here started out OK but quickly deteriorated into name calling and nasty accusations. Pretty soon they weren't discussing issues at all, just flinging mud left and right, ducking and dodging and running campaign ads making fun of each other! And when I answer my phone and get recorded campaign ads from these same people, it's going way too far. How are you supposed to make an intelligent decision between two candidates when this is all you have to go on? It puts me back to when the kids were little and I had to try to referee their silly, never-ending "He said ... she said" arguments! I solved that problem by just skipping over that part of the ballot and voting for "NOBODY"! And those smug, grinning, candidates who seriously assure us that, if elected, they will single-handedly restore the economy, reduce unemployment, stop illegal immigration, fix social security, find a cure for everything that ails us, and bring about world peace in their spare time (but don't bother to tell us <em>how</em> they plan to do that) ... just so much hot air! And to think that when I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be old enough to vote! Sheeesh!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 373155, member: 1883"] [B]"I hate this election campaign. Both political parties have been so careful to not offend, they're not dealing with the issues. But we have a PM whose capability is not showing (due to the caution) and another candidate whose incompetence is not showing (because of the caution). So everything is as boring as batsh** and nothing looks like happening." [/B] Marg, we've had just the opposite here, and that's equally as bad! Most of the Senate races here started out OK but quickly deteriorated into name calling and nasty accusations. Pretty soon they weren't discussing issues at all, just flinging mud left and right, ducking and dodging and running campaign ads making fun of each other! And when I answer my phone and get recorded campaign ads from these same people, it's going way too far. How are you supposed to make an intelligent decision between two candidates when this is all you have to go on? It puts me back to when the kids were little and I had to try to referee their silly, never-ending "He said ... she said" arguments! I solved that problem by just skipping over that part of the ballot and voting for "NOBODY"! And those smug, grinning, candidates who seriously assure us that, if elected, they will single-handedly restore the economy, reduce unemployment, stop illegal immigration, fix social security, find a cure for everything that ails us, and bring about world peace in their spare time (but don't bother to tell us [I]how[/I] they plan to do that) ... just so much hot air! And to think that when I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be old enough to vote! Sheeesh! [/QUOTE]
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