The fact that this essay's argument boils down to:
1) The other guys are worse, and
2) We don't have any candidates better than an 80-year-old man who is clearly beginning to have some trouble with his mental faculties
suggests that we're in a "cable television" era of politicians where we have a bajillion candidates and they're all bad.
The fact that this essay's argument boils down to:
1) The other guys are worse, and
2) We don't have any candidates better than an 80-year-old man who is clearly beginning to have some trouble with his mental faculties
suggests that we're in a "cable television" era of politicians where we have a bajillion candidates and they're all bad.
At least with the Obama election there was some sense of an overall positive, rather than "at least our guy isn't a Republican." This whole essay is an unintentional condemnation of Democrats.
The fact that this essay's argument boils down to:
1) The other guys are worse, and
2) We don't have any candidates better than an 80-year-old man who is clearly beginning to have some trouble with his mental faculties
suggests that we're in a "cable television" era of politicians where we have a bajillion candidates and they're all bad.
At least with the Obama election there was some sense of an overall positive, rather than "at least our guy isn't a Republican." This whole essay is an unintentional condemnation of Democrats.
The article is unimaginative in outlook and unnecessarily compromising.