: one down, two to go ... but i'm tired of it all :

... today is the Canadian federal election, and I am glad it was 'time-limited' as opposed to the US election industry. I am glad we are now one down, only two to go ( for BC residents the municipal elections are sometime this fall, November 14 I think? ). I do wonder what it would look like if an above-board, non-mudslinging campaign was to happen?

After lurking around for years, and more recently putting some oomph behind the Obama-as-a-???? whisper campaign, this guy has either come out, or been outed, as the source of persistent rumours about Obama's past, present and future. Here's an interesting little tidbit of info ... the New York Times reports that Andy Martin's admission to the Illinois bar was blocked in the 1970s after a psychiatric finding of “moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.”

Yikes! So, politics ... if you ask me, even more troubling than making strange bedfellows, makes the ends trump the means? One case in point? is Sarah Palin's campaign style really what the right wants to project? period? never mind a woman with power, or a conservative christian, or a hockey mom. I guess if the lead dog has to hire an attack dog, then Palin and Biden have to 'play' those roles.

But I don't ( have to ) like it.

dlc