Looking over the border at America...

Looking over the border at America and especially at American politics is a lot like watching a good Hollywood action movie, and I don't mean those ancient spaghetti Westerns starring that drugstore cowboy from the old 'Rawhide' TV show, Clint Eastwood. Who the hell is Clint Eastwood anyway? He's an actor who has made a career of pretending to be somebody else, and in most cases somebody else who never existed in the first place - fictitious characters - so he's spent most of his life pretending to be some non-existent character in a fictional scenario carefully designed to separate the unwashed masses from their sweat-stained cash, while not having to break said sweat himself. Just to clarify that issue for you.... And what does Clint know about running the country? The closest he's ever come to that was being the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea (commonly just 'Carmel'), a quiet little artsy-fartsy backwater along
the Pacific coast about 330 miles north of L.A. and 120 miles south of San Francisco in California, with a population (in 2010) of 3,722. Not a big place.

Today's USA Today (above) shows us this poll which is well within the margin of error for such things, meaning this is still virtually a 'dead heat' neck-in-neck race and anybody's ballgame. But today's wags and pundits are saying they favor 'Mitt The S**t' Romney for running the economy over the incumbent, President Obama. This is the part about American politics that drives people crazy!

 How the hell can anyone with half an eye and a functioning arsehole have the temerity to say that they prefer an untried and untested windbag greenhorn to a serving President with first-hand experience and a record not to everyone's liking only because his political opposition has been blocking him at each and every turn? Since when is the hypothetical preferable to the actual? Doesn't anybody down there know how to play this game? Is that why your national debt is bigger than God's? And the Chinese and Japanese and others own a big slice of your future? And you'd better hope they don't decide to cash in their chips all at once? Is this what's bothering you? Well that's still no excuse for electing a 'Dubya'-clone hatched by a daddy who once ran American Motors,
and had some experience with the car business. Speaking as a too-often buyer
of those products, I'd say that's no guarantee of integrity, reliability, or trustworthiness. Some of the biggest and best 'bullshitters' I've ever met were
in the car business, and I paid dearly for that knowledge. So be careful...