The Roar Is Gone
I miss them already.
A friend of mine misses them too.
Soon, today maybe even, the last hurrah of Election 2002 will fade from our newspaper pages, from our radio dials and from the deadly serious TV voice-overs usually reserved for Super Bowl recaps.
You know who I mean: The Terrorist vs. The
Corporate Weasel. The experienced folks in control against the new brooms ready to sweep clean.
Politics has become so much more about advertising than truth, rallying against an opponent rather than standing up for your own self.
I watch a lot of CSpan. And CSPAN2. I�d like to think I know more about politics watching the debates, state by state.
But I don�t.
I come away wondering, if all that is said is true, why aren�t these candidates locked in a loony bin? How could major parties fund such idiocy?
When Ronald Reagan ran for reelection, he was accused of �MdDonaldizing� politics. His gee-whiz-ain�t-everything-right-about-America ads were the first of their kind, focusing on feelings instead of substantive messages. Now the feelings are all as chain-rattling as any WWE promotion.
Even the funeral for the Minnesota Senator turned into a political rally, with faces cast on the big screen at the event alternately cheered or jeered.
Our staff will start Election Day early, with visits to the first opening precincts and wrap up about 24 hours later, when all the results that are in. Hopefully, that means all the results.
We will tell you who won where locally. We can repeat vote tallies, we can tell you what was said by winners and losers. We can present pictures of each.
Within months, we will not remember much of what was said over the past several weeks. We will not remember if the Terrorist is truly a Terrorist or if the Corporate Weasel is the same.
We will know our representatives. We will hope they aspire to higher results than the taunts of the campaigns.
I have offered every candidate the space to write whatever they want whenever they want if they ascend to representative positions on every level of government.
I want to keep in touch, but I want them to remind you why they are where they are and what they are doing to make your life better.
So, tune in tomorrow and stay tuned until Wednesday�s editions.
If you�ve watched the show this far, you need to stay around for the finish.
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