SHAFTWAXER

For the first time, I turned off a presidential debate. The debate last night on ABC was, to put it lightly, fucking awful. What a waste of time. I lasted 45 minutes before being disgusted. Hell, I was annoyed enough to write an angry post on the internet! Because, you know, that will change everything.

In all sincerity, I did write an email to ABC news:

I am writing because for the first time ever, I had to turn off a presidential debate. The debate on the 16th of April was awful. Entirely lacked any substance in the first 45 minutes. Instead of digging into issues of any relevance or substance, it was petty scandal after petty scandal, digging up silly stuff we had already moved beyond. Bitter? Yes, but not at Obama’s comments. Bitter that 90 minutes were wasted and turned into a tabloid. Shameful.

I would have written more, but there was a 500 character limit. Instead of issues like the economy, Iraq, the housing crisis, health care, the farce that is our justice department, corruption, governmental oversight, human rights, poverty… you know, shit that actually matters, we had to sit through a rehash of every stupid petty tabloid scandal. Who gives a fuck about wearing a flag pin? Just because you wear a flag pin doesn’t mean you magically become a good person. How many of those fuckers in congress wear pins yet continually deny veterans benefits they deserve with a new GI bill? What the fuck kind of question is “Is Rev. Wright more or less of a patriot than you?” How is that relevant to me? How does that shape me as a tax paying American? How does that help those in need? How does that help the least among us?

What a fucking joke.