[jolepp]

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both hyper-talented, intelligent men. Surely, both must know they've descended to mouthing inanities.

I keep wondering — and I realize this might sound a bit naive — whether they couldn't simply agree to stop the foolishness and debate substantively from two perfectly defensible positions: A belief in limited government, versus a belief in a more interventionist government, but anchored on the recognition that there is a need for government and sensible public policy?

After all, even the supposedly louche Europeans, widely regarded here in the U.S. as running spoiled nanny states, are doing just that. Their debate is, admittedly, a bitter one, but they are at least wrestling with the question of what sort of societies they can afford. Just look at what happened in France and Greece over the weekend.

But here, as American voters ponder whom to make the most powerful leader on Earth, they're being treated like lemmings and subjected to some of the most dumbed-down discourse in modern political history.
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Neil Macdonald: America's point and screech election campaign - World - CBC News

[riff]

some of the most dumbed-down discourse in modern political history

I assume they know their audience.

[lesmore49]

Neil Macdonald: America's point and screech election campaign - World - CBC News

Another link from the CBC, a news organization with a firm grasp of the obvious. Why quote them ?