Reply #22: sadly, it speaks poorly of the populace as a whole, and [View All]

[frogcycle]

even the people who frequent this board.

shallow "American Idol" criteria. They are all trying to outdo that British guy - the lead judge on that show - for doing hatchet jobs.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with any sane selection process for choosing the leader of the free world.

even the rantings in the press over whether to "go negative" are all about the contest, as if it were a prize fight or horse race, and not about the job and their fitness for it. It is who has the best strategy - did so-and-so play the booger-on-the-nose card too early, or not early enough?

It's as if it really didn't have any bearing on the probability of this country's government surviving.