That was classy

I'm sure most of you have already heard about this, but just in case... What's up with politicians of late? Not only are they corrupt and power hungry, now they're stupid and childish too. Just what we needed to see before election day. In the Virginia race between George Allen and Jim Webb, it's degenerated into accusations about racist pranks. "You stuffed a deer head into an African American's mailbox!" "Did not! I mean, so did you!" "Did not! YOU did!" And so on and so forth, blah blah blah blah. Come on people, aren't we supposed to be talking about, oh, I don't know, the war? The economy? The crazy people with nukes who want to kill us? Isn't that the usual meat for debate? There are weird things going on all over the country. In New Jersey, Robert Menendez is embroiled in a huge scandal involving too much money and bribes and threats; from the tape they've got of Menendez's thug ordering a psychiatrist to hire Menendez's patron "or else" it would seem that they've got a minor mafia going on back there. And then of course there's the Mark Foley thing, and the Republican leadership spinning like weather cocks, trying to free themselves from blame. Sheesh. This will be a very strange November.