Our State of Affairs as Stated by Remote

Is it any wonder that we are in the state that we are in when 18 million Americans watched the last installment of American Idol, nine million Americans watched the last installment of Jersey Shore and less than four million Americans watched the last Presidential debate on TV?

I know what you are thinking. It’s the Chinese New Year — the year of the dragon, which means the crap from the potential candidates will “DRAG ON” and on and on.

You say you don’t have the patience to listen to political rhetoric and want to watch something mindless instead. I know you are looking to put your feet up after a hard day and view something my bamboo plant might like to watch, although that might be a bit of a stretch. My houseplant can’t stand Snooki or Mike “the Situation”. It prefers Restaurant Impossible and wept the whole time when Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was cancelled.

However, we humans need to review the issues and see what those White House wannabees stand for, before we vote again and put someone in power that will again change things for the worse. So stop flicking the clicker and start listening to the men and women with issues and discuss the issues.

Now if you are watching TV with your young adolescent daughter and trying to catch a glimpse of the singing talents of comedian Jim Carrey’s daughter, I can understand you watching Idol instead of the person who might be making the State of the Union Address three years from now. I guess it is one thing to announce you have a Charlie horse and have your toddler ask when she can ride it. Having kids watch presidential debates can cause nightmares, so choosing lighter faire might be a prudent choice as opposed to watching the political dog and pony show and see the GOP doing more sidesteps than performers on Dancing With The Stars.

Newt calls Mitt a “liar”. Mitt calls Newt a “quitter”.  Not much different than Paulie and Vinny on Jersey Shore, except for the fact that one of these two grassones (Italian slang word meaning fat slobs) could be our Commander-in-Chief one day soon. Now Obama will give his televised message to all those willing to turn off Pawn Stars and watch about his five keys and not one will open to anything important for us, in this term of office. I’m just hoping that he doesn’t spend time dissing the G.O.P. like Kanye did Taylor.

Polls show that Americans are fed up with the goings on in Washington, D.C. It is just my feeling that if we avoid being properly informed now; we are setting ourselves up for a greater fall in the future.

History has a tendency to repeat itself and the only people that seem to learn from it, are the offensive NFL coaches that spend time reviewing hours of game tapes.