The idea of a little over 9 more months of this agonizing blow-by-blow churlish behavior by all of the candidates makes me flip my radio over to classical music and skip reading the two front sections of the newspaper.

It's amazing how they all forget all of the nasty name-calling once the candidate is selected. But the way they get to that point--not pretty.

I wouldn't wish the job of president on anyone. Whoever is elected is liable to be a one-term president with chronically low ratings as they try to undo the vast amount of damage Bush II did to the U.S. economy, put the federal government back the way it was, put reasonable checks and balances and regulations on American financial institutions, reign in the FCC, and apologize for the carnage around the world done by American troops and diplomats.

The first act the of the new president should be to compel every idiot who ever voted for Dubya to take a mandatory civics class to learn the role of the various levels of government, the importance and necessity of the constitution and bill of rights, and the powers of the various federal branches. Just so they know why things went so horribly wrong.

SRS