Lights, Chimera, Action

As the authentic drama of the mine rescue unfolds in Chile, plenty of phoniness is being offered in the campaign season back in the US. First there is Barack Hussein Obama's preposterous allegations trying to paint the United States Chamber of Commerce as some nefarious organization trying to use foreign money to interfere in the American political process, and this charge is coming from a character who used more donated funds from some genuinely suspicious sources than any previous candidate for any office in US history in his run toward the Presidency. No doubt Obama has intimate knowledge of questionable campaign funding as he was the beneficiary of millions of dollars from abroad as he sought the Oval Office. If the origin of any GOP money is undetermined, indeed find out from whence it came, just make sure to hold Democrats to the same level of scrutiny. Then there are local ads being run across the country portraying Republican office seekers in the worst possible light- negative campaigning in the politics of personal destruction writ large on our television screens. I would not be surprised to see a Democrat run an ad like this: "I am not saying my Republican foe scoundrel that he is eats babies, but if you have a newborn or toddler, you would be well advised to keep him away from this reactionary's kitchen." Of course, no Democrat is actually suggesting this, but their concocted charges are just as ludicrous. Why I would wager every individual seeking office has a skeleton or two in his closet. That does not make them unelectable, it merely means they too are human with all the fallibility that involves. Under the standards of today's campaigns, after Mary Jo Kopechne and the Chappaquiddick tragedy, do you think Edward "Teddy" Kennedy could have ever been elected to the US Senate? Made-up scandals should not disqualify honorable individuals from public service in this nation. Send the real charlatans who are looting America's Treasury packing.