The Campaign

As I see it, with a year to campaign the candidates don't accomplish anything but making the media richer, and their reputations worse. After a year of insults back and forth, once one of these candidates is elected how are we supposed to respect them? Half of the country will hate and distrust the President. If McCain gets elected people will say he is too old, disconnected and picked a stupid running mate. If Obama is elected people will say he is a terrorist and wants to turn the country into a dreaded socialist state. The issues have fallen far to the wayside as the last push of campaigning focuses on the new American pastime of publicly smearing one's "opponent."