U.S. Politics

Maybe I am just being a patriotic Canadian again, thinking about how much I prefer Canadian politics to U.S. practices, but I do. It just makes me sick to endlessly read about the families and religious views of American political candidates. What the hell does that have to do with how well they can do their job?

I don't care if Obama had a falling out with his preacher.

I actually don't care if Palin's teenage daughter is pregnant!

As vice-President will she be the mother of the nation or something and suddenly all of America's teenage daughter's will be just like Jamie Lynn Spears? If that's the case, the same logic would follow that Bristol Palin is pregnant because George W. Bush is a bad president.

If the American political machine could only stop smear campaigning and start making logical decisions, perhaps, they wouldn't have put certain people in office in the first place.