"...There isn’t a dime’s distance between Obama and Romney in the polls. This election is close. But we still have nearly five months before votes are cast so I’m getting irritated because we’re being inundated with inanities. (I also abuse alliteration when I’m tired — so there.)
Pundits pick over every strategic or tactical machination — they break it down, comb through it and analyze it to no end. These maneuvers are always part of a war on something sacred: women, religion, the middle-class, job creators, logic, freedom.
Every political position heralds the end of times, or at least the end of America’s time, as if we are still the envy of all others, the ones who rise above and go beyond, the do-right country with the can-do attitude.
The truth is that we are a broken government, operating on borrowed money and borrowed time. We don’t have the vision or will or wherewithal to spend or save. So we float forward as the roar of the nearing falls grows louder. We battle over who should row the boat and in which direction, as the spray of crashing waters moistens our faces.
As a country, we are at a decision point.
Not only can we not do big things, we can’t do small ones either..."
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Campaigns and Crankiness
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