For the life of me I don't know why anyone would WANT the Presidency from here on out. No matter which side wins, the other will start digging for dirt, slinging mud at all 4 walls hoping something will stick.
[rant] America started losing respect for the Presidency during the Reagan Administration. Remember all the stories in the media about Ronnie and Mommy's astrologer, Mommy refusing to wake Ronnie during a crisis situation, ect, ect? The media was then branded as "The Liberal Media". Before that the press was considered pretty much even handed and legit.
During the Bush,Sr. years we started to get more mean spirited and "Infotainment" (not to be confused with actual news) started becoming all the rage. There was not an AM radio station that didn't have Rush Limbaugh or some equally obtuse wannabe spewing hate.
Aaah, The Clinton years. Now we kick the hate into overdrive. I swear if Bill had stayed locked in a hermetically sealed chamber for 8 years the Republicans would still have tried to impeach him. They spend MILLIONS investigating him and the best they could come up with was he got a ****job. If it wasn't for that Water Buffalo Linda Tripp setting Monica up on tape (I record every call I make.....don't you?) there would have been nothing at all.
The so-called "Liberal Media" had a field day with Clinton, just like Bush and Reagan before. It's not a Liberal media, it's a Shock Value media. If there's no story, then we skew the information to sound shocking enough to be a story. This nation has become very close to returning to the McCarthy era style of politics. If you ain't with me, you must be against me...and so are all your friends, co-workers, family and your little dog, too!
That's just my opinion, I could be wrong. [/rant]
