Ruining October

I have a proposal that I think fitting for political campaigns that culminate in second-Tuesday-of-November Election Days. My proposal is this: Candidates for political office may not campaign except for the six weeks prior to the election. Leading up to this six week period, candidates should do their jobs, whatever these might be, especially if they are already in elected office. We don't elect people to spend half of their term campaigning for their next "run" for whatever office.

I realize that this would ruin my beloved October, but I can control how much crap I let into my life by how much I watch TV or read the newspaper. (The only thing I can't control is the constant of eyesore of political signs alongside the roads I drive.)

As much as we're hearing about the next presidential election, you'd think that it was just month away. But no. It's over a year away! What we're suffering through now is only going to get worse as we move out of 2007 and into and through 2008.

I don't know that I've shown many people this poem I wrote, but I think I'll share it now. You might not like it, but, hey, that's all right. We're still friends and in this together.

God, Bless America, Our

administration is a constitutional cancer,
our
malaise a hybrid strain—arrogance and ignorance;
our
economy is immoral,
our
religion made for television;
our
indigestion is chronic,
our
culture dead;
our
albatross is the American dream.