Obfuscate, Obfuscate, Obfuscate

Okay, lipstick-wearing-pigs, experience, incest, radical bombers, oldness, blackness, insipidness (Biden), hair styles. We've heard it all, and it's like fun and everything, but what I haven't heard is what people think about the following real problems:

1. Russian expansionism. Like clockwork, Russia goes into these Cossack fits of war-mongering every twenty years. We obviously don't care about Georgia, but to ignore the possible fall of Ukraine and Poland is troublesome. Did you know there are Russian naval vessels in the Caribbean this morning?

2. Venezuelan eco-terrorism. Seriously, Joe Kennedy shills for Chavez and we think it's cute. If previous Administrations thought Fidel Castro was worrisome, just wait until Chavez gets threatened domestically. When he shuts Venezuela down, three or four South American countries will fall in line. I wonder what Euro-Asian country will come to Chavez's aide? Luxembourg? Malaysia? Not likely.

3. The collapse and subsequent nationalization of the capitalist engines in this country. Since the government caused the crisis in the first place why are we now entrusting the government to pull us out by destroying the free-market?

4. Chinese eco-terrorism. Because we're afraid of what we don't understand we've allowed China to inundate our markets with inferior and often unsafe products. The Chinese are either incompetent or evil, but does that matter? Why do we allow our citizens to suffer? Isn't that what government is supposed to do?

5. Nuclear Iran. Seriously. That's not a good thing no matter how you slice it. Talking it out only works on the schoolyard, not when people's lives are threatened on a massive scale.

6. Nuclear North Korea. Mostly a joke, but I'd rather not wait for the flash over Tokyo to be proved wrong.

So, stop with the non-sense. Ignore everything the media and the campaigns throw at us to obfuscate the issues no one wants to deal with but will soon have to. Insist that people who are interviewing with you for the job they want are serious, competent and strong, then go vote.