When you live under your bed, associating only with dead bugs and dust-bunnies the way Janet does, you don't have too good a picture of what's going on in the real world.

These days, the main problem is that the candidates are not really talking much about the issues, and that's what I really want to hear—as does any other voter possessed of an adequate number of brain cells. But first, with moderators like those in this last debate, they wound up having to deal with the froth the moderators kept flinging. And second, it seems that when a candidate speaks of their position in solid terms, it scares a lot of people who are unable to think beyond the latest bumper-sticker they read. Look what happened to Dennis Kucinich!

But over time, you can get impressions, and if you listen carefully and can separate the sense from the nonsense, you can get a fairly good picture of what someone is all about.

I think Barack Obama, if elected, will be a breath of fresh air wafting through the noxious fumes of the nation's capital.

Don Firth