chicagodads

My wife’s phone was registering the sign that said it was powering up, even though it wasn’t any more. It was not functioning, and so basically she needed to reboot the thing. which, translated, meant that I had to open up the back to take the battery out and then put it back in. Now, I knew what I needed to do. The problem was, I’m not that familiar with her phone and it was jammed a wee bit. The problem turned out to be, that I didn’t know how to do what i needed to do. So a simple routine procedure took me a bit like five minutes. I felt like the Frankenstein monster with an Easter lily, like i was going to kill the phone if I wasn’t absolutely careful.

Which is somewhat analogous to how I feel the presidential race is running these days.

Part of what really upsets me about this whole presidential campaign (which I know isn’t the only political campaign going on, but since we live in Chicago, all of the local elections were already decided when we chose who was gonna run on the democratic ticket) is the lack of creativity. Not the fact that the attacks aren’t creative or skillful (and they really don’t seem to be, from what I’ve seen. Just more rashly put together for rapid response), but that the act of the attack is completely uncreative and mind-numbing.

It seems to me, and I could be wrong, that the McCain campaign noticed that the Obama campaign was really ratcheting it up and pulling ahead due to the economic state (maybe I should say, ‘economic flux’). out of desperation, the republican campaign tried to slow momentum down and focus it towards their candidate, who was to suspend his campaign and focus on the economic crisis (which, it seems, never happened). when that didn’t turn out so well for him (and not entirely his fault - by and large, the blame for the largeness of this financial failure falls upon the entire congress, and president), he started huffing and puffing about how he did this and he didn’t do that. ‘phoning it in’ and all - except that they caught pictures of mccain literally ‘phoning it in’ during this crisis.

as silly as these charges and schemes were (and they were pretty silly), at least their was some chutzpah, some laying out of the b**ls here (this is a family blog, after all…). it’s the ‘taking off of the gloves’ after this that i find so degenerating, so un-presidential, so fiendish. because it’s how children react when things aren’t going there way and when they want something that they don’t know how to get. there’s little thought to long-standing and far-reaching consequences (hmm… reminds me of another hot topic of today…). if something’s in the way, scream, kick, push, twist, bend, fall, pull, cry harder - it’ll come loose.

and, of course, we all lose that way.

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