Mission Impossible

The Voting Booth

1996 was another crappy election year. Deciding on which candidate to choose was certainly an impossible mission.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to try and do better next time around! In order to make a sound judgment as to which candidate will do the best job, you must sift through endless drawl of campaign-speak and find out what really is being said (if anything is being said).

Candidates will often say what you want to hear, not neccesarily what needs to be heard. Pay close attention to what they don't say too. You will often times learn more by what is left unsaid.

Be forewarned that the candidates and their party members will attempt to confuse you. And other nations will attempt to influence policy by providing "incentives" to see things their way and ignore our best interests. They are all calling for campaign financing reform, but none of them appears to really mean it. Hey, why bite the hands that feed you? Or pays you off?

If you find yourself on that special Tuesday in November still confused, do what I do: Vote for whoever would be least likely to leave the seat up when they are finished with their business. Got any better ideas? Let me know.

Where's Peter Graves when you need him?

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