Slinging mud ‘lite’

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Slinging mud ‘lite’

By Micheal Boddy
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008

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It's time for the political mud to start flying, though I think it will be much cleaner mud, if that's possible.

The democrats have been taking some pot shots at each other, usually through intermediaries so they won't be directly involved, but I'm appalled at the lack of zest they're putting into it. It might be because they want to appear to be one happy family trying to decide what will be on the dinner menu for the next week or so.

Will it be Clinton or Obama as the main course? Or will it be one as the entree with the other as a side dish, as has been recently suggested? Yeah, like that would ever happen. While it might be an unbeatable ticket, neither can or would take the back seat. Besides, both are already U.S. senators and have as much, if not more, influence than a vice president already.

And, as they politely sort out their family feud, the best they seem to be capable of when it comes to McCain is he's old, and would be the oldest president ever elected, should that happen. A lot of us are old (or at least feel that way) and that should be more a badge of honor than some kind of character flaw.

Where is all the good stuff, the gossip gone wild, the incriminating photos like the ones with Donna Rice aboard the yacht Monkey Business that sank Gary Hart?

We all know it has to be out there, like the video of President Bush picking his nose during the MLB Allstar Game in Dallas, which never surfaced during his campaign against Gore. I'll bet he's proud of that.

Would that have changed the outcome of the election? No one will ever know.

I'm sure Clinton has never picked her nose. She probably has an aide, or several aides, in charge of that. And Obama would surely deny he's ever done it if he were accused. Unfortunately there are no "smoking gun" nose-picking pictures, that we know of, that would refute that.

I've been of the opinion for many years that no politician who climbs the ladder to any major office, gets there without someone having something on them to punch their ticket any time they choose.

So is there still hope for some mud that's a little thicker than dishwater?

I certainly hope so. If not, we're in for a pretty dull election.

We'll have to actually use the issues affecting the country to decide who to elect as president, and that's not entertaining at all.