In this country, there are right now, this very minute, approximately 100 million (give or take a few hundred) native born folks over the age of 35, which makes each and every one of them qualified to be President of the United States. So why have we ended up instead with the two stooges?

Who will win? The one who screws up the least. Isn't that sad?

We get so much spin from both camps that we're too dizzy to see. Are you ready for the mudslinging?

The folks who are in charge of the campaigns say that the negative ads work. You know the ones. They spend sixty seconds telling you what a dork the other guy is, and nothing at all about why the candidate who paid for the ads should be elected. If this kind of advertising works, why doesn't Chic-Fil-A abandon their award-winning Cows campaign and start running commercials about all the people who die from clogged arteries because they ate red meat. The ads would start with a tight shot of the Golden Arches, and the voiceover would read: "Sure, they SAY 60 million served, but they don't tell you about the obesity and plaque-filled aortas."

Then McDonalds or Burger King would return the favor, showing deplorable conditions at chicken processing plants. And so on and so on. Kind of turns you off of fast food, doesn't it? In the same way, a lot of folks have been turned off of using their right to vote.

Advertising is and always has been the art of pointing out the benefits of a product to the consumer. It sickens me when I have to see this.