To Vote or Not to Vote

Has anyone noticed that there are elections coming up in less than a month? If you watch TV at all, I’m guessing that you might have seen about 20 political ads in an hour. Some of these politicians are probably ok people and might even know a little about the job that they are running for, but if you seen these ads, it makes them all seem like they would be worse than Saddam Hussein or Bin Laden. For example, there was a negative Scott Walker ad on recently. He is running against Tom Barrett for Governor of Wisconsin. Tom Barrett’s spin doctors put out ads which make Walker look like a worse stoner than Cheech and Chong. I personally do not like Scott Walker, so I thought it was funny, almost like some moron skit from Saturday Night Live. The sad thing was that it wasn’t. These ads are attacking people’s character and are pretty nasty.
I also heard that Wisconsin has the highest amount of political ads in the whole US right now. And you thought Freddy Kruger was scary! At this point, I would almost vote for Freddy, I think he would probably be more honest than the politicians out there that we have to vote for. Here is another scary thought; I have a young lady who is 26 years old that is in one of my afternoon classes. She was talking to me and some other classmates a few weeks ago that she needed some work experience to pad her resume and was looking for some volunteer work to do. She read online that Russ Feingold was looking for volunteers for his campaign. She applied for the job and was called back that same day to see if she would accept the job. She seemed pretty excited about it. Then that’s when the scary part happened. She asked us if Feingold was a Democrat or Republican. We all kind of looked around in a stunned glaze and said he’s a Democrat, and he also a Senator. She seriously did not know. Luckily for Feingold’s campaign, she took a paying job that was also offered to her that same day. That was a real Jay Leno people on the street’s moment!
Well, anyway, I am done rambling. If you have any feedback on all these political ads or how your favorite politician is doing, I would like to read it. Later, Mike.