The only thing I hate more than clowns who vote Democrat and wear Minnesota Vikings apparel is political ads. I hate equally Democrat ads, Republican ads, and ads paid for by political activists groups with fun sounding names like Iowans for the Truth. Sounds great right? I am an Iowan, I want the truth. Too bad. It'd be like finding out that this blog had won the Best Blog of All Time 2010 Award, and then find out the impartial voters were me, me voting on your behalf, and Jade the cat.
The claims these ads make are just big bold bullet points in place to scare the masses. One candidate is pro "Big Oil", one is voting to kill "Main Street in favor of Wall Street", and the other wants to ship jobs overseas and free the rapists. If there is a "Big Oil," there must be a "Small Oil" to compare them to. I don't know much about them, but I am pulling for "Small Oil" even though they are obviously slimy. This whole Main Street vs. Wall Street has been all the rage this year with the stock market collapse. It's a great way to take a hugely complex issue and boil it down to a simple idea they can politicize. Here's the thing, you can't effect one without effecting the other. You can't be "tough on Wall Street" without it directly effecting "Main Street." It sure is handy though when you want to make a point without all those burdensome facts though.
A fun twist here lately is that they have to attribute their claims to a vote or an article. So now at the bottom of the screen you can see little notes reflecting that, never mind that politicians like to slam 400 unrelated things into a single bill. So a bill that they say "slashes veteran's benefits" may have also include "rape funding." They can also take one line out of an entire article and take it out of context to mean what ever they want. For example, you could take from this line "ship jobs overseas and free the rapists," from earlier in the post and infer that I think we should do those very things. You can even put it in quotation marks and make it look legit.
I hate politics, and I hate the fact that the commercials are all negative and attacking. Very few people are advertising what they have done or believe in, but rather that their opponent supports giving cancer aids to school children and encouraging Mexican drug cartels to move into town.
Politics suck, and you can't trust politicians. The even worse news? The laws they pass will effect you no matter if you vote or not. So pick the candidate that seems less awful and pray they won't screw things up too bad.
Oh, and set the DVR so you can skip all the commercials and hope the eventually go back to public speeches.
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