The Political Inquirer

This time of year is usually “down-time” for politics. Things get boring as people prepare for the ‘good news’ that starts during May and June. Right now is a really bad time, and I’ve gotten tired of it. The Hillary-Barack race has gone on far too long, leading to hatred on both sides. Republicans are now involved in the Democrat primary on both sides. The news stories are filled each day with reports about “Hillary did not release her tax returns” or “Barack has a racist hateful pastor”. It’s news for a little while, but what should we call it when it becomes old and boring?

Frankly, I don’t care about Hillary’s tax returns or Barack’s pastor anymore. Both candidates are boring me and have reduced each other to such shells of their former self that I could really care less who gets the Democrat nomination. I already don’t care who has the Republican nomination–it came down to three people who I actually consider as possibly worse than the Democrats. Romney, Huckabee, and McCain were dirty scoundrels that I despised, and the worst one of the lot got the nomination.

I had hopes that John Edwards would win the Democrat top spot, being “above” the fray and divide, but that proved to be a bad wish. In late 2007 I was still holding out for a big enough victory in Iowa and New Hampshire to help propel Ron Paul to a higher spot–but the media blackout and his lack of momentum caused by losing New Hampshire (big time) ruined the chances of that. Since February 7th when Romney dropped out, politics has gotten duller and duller by the day.

For once I wish Congress and the Bush administration would start riling things up again, just so I would have something to object to and argue with–but they’re sitting around like lame ducks. The President has accomplished virtually everything he wanted to (with the exception of Social Security), and the actual lame ducks in 2008 isn’t the President, but the Pelosi-Reid Congress!

I think there is hope, though. Things are looking up for riots at the Democrat convention, Ron Paul delegates heckling McCain at the Republican convention, and maybe a couple of small summer wars will break out with the Middle-Eastern countries. I think I am beginning to feel what “real” journalists feel–they require the creation of news to keep their job interesting, to the point that they will actually “make” news out of nothing. I am not that desperate, but I am starting to identify with them.

Perhaps I will just switch to full time writing on economics if gas prices keep increasing. People need to be educated.