[widebody911]

We've gone on and on for weeks about medals this, AWOL that; unflattering pix of candidates wives, which candidate has the best-looking/drunkest daughters.

Sweet jesus on toast - enough of this farking ***** already!

How about arguing about something that matters, like the crushing deficit, our decaying infrastructure, fleeing jobs, porous borders, failing education system, or how in the **** we're going to get back out of Iraq.

I'll start: I read one article that estimated that in order to pay off the deficit ($40T <=> $70T) today, we would need an immediate - and permanent - 78% income tax hike. (Laurence Kotlikoff, economics chairman at Boston University).

Neither candidate has addressed this. It's much easier to talk smack about each other's war records and not have to do any real work. Both candidates are running on the platform that they're not the other guy. GWB's main message is "vote for me or be killed by the ragheads" and Kerry's is "vote for me 'cause, well, I'm not GWB and I went to Vietnam"

Can you imagine what a billion a week would have done for our schools or transportation infrastructure? Or (perish the though!) a solvent Social Security system.

If you can't think that far ahead, how about some of the issues surrounding electronic voting?