BernieHund: The Political Watchdog

The “Celeb” ad from McCain and the chide about the $520.00 shoes McCain wears from the Obama campaign have brought me to the point of nausea.  There are issues that are far more important than what kind of shoes John McCain wears, or if Barack Obama likes arugula.  Quite frankly, none of us are going to walk a mile in McCain’s $520.00 shoes and none of us are going to sit down to soup and salad with Obama.  So, please tell me why the campaigns think we really care about those little tidbits.  If the economy had not been flushed down the toilet, if we, the citizens, could afford to pay the high price of gas and buy every item on our grocery lists, if all our sons and daughters were safely at home instead of prosecuting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan maybe we would have the time and inclination to care about the eating habits of one candidate and the designer shoes of the other.

It’s time to get back to the real issues, please.  Has anyone noticed that Exxon had another record profit quarter?

Record earnings for the world’s largest publicly traded oil company have become almost as predictable as the surge of gasoline prices at the pump in recent years, and for the second quarter income rose 14 percent, to $11.68 billion.

It was the highest quarterly profit ever for any American company, as Exxon made nearly $90,000 a minute.

That’s just one issue.  I’m not against profit.  But, as Americans are paying record gas prices at the pump, it seems a little odd that Exxon is also earning record profits on Wall Street.

So, energy is just one issue.  There are others.  But, so far this week we have heard about one candidate’s favorite dining experience and the other’s favorite Italian shoes. 

Both candidates have shown a total disrespect for the intelligence of the American voters and a lack of understanding of the concerns and issues before the people.  If neither have anything more important to say that what has been reported this week, perhaps both should suspend their campaigns and donate their “campaign chests” to the American people.  Let us eat arugula and buy a pair of shoes.