Amidst a terrifying financial crisis that many of us don't fully understand, there are still elections to look forward to. Elections that more or less have nothing to do with the financial crisis, as realistically the candidates are as clueless as the rest of us. As I compulsively check my Yahoo mail every hour, I only see news related to the economy. This is to be expected, of course, but I still want to hear about the candidates. I pass over ten or fifteen articles focused on the economy and then suddenly I see "Obama" and "McCain" mentioned in the title. Yes, the article is still about the crisis...but now it has a little more zing to it.
But they've got nothing to do with getting us out of it at the moment. All they can do is use the crisis as a talking point...which failed miserably during Friday's debate. We have to remember that we can't rely on our candidates to do everything for us. As of right now, they're only two Senators. But we can't help it when we see their names attached to a story. We love the words "Obama", "McCain", "Palin" and to a lesser extent "Biden". The words are all that matter.
