Fire Them All!

The stock market is heading south faster than the snowbirds migrating from the northeast to Florida for the winter. The gargantuan house of cards that is the global financial system is collapsing around us. Are the two presidential candidates capable of grasping the enormity of the crisis, fashioning some type of reassuring strategy to deal with it, and communicating to the American people in a Rooseveltian manner? Allow me to answer that: NO!!!!!!!!!!!

I say we fire them all – McCain, Obama, Palin, Biden – and the sooner the better. Right now, I could care less about William Ayers, Charles Keating, and every other dubious connection the two candidates have in their pasts. Absent the cataclysm that threatens to eviscerate our economy, yes, I would want to hear Obama justify his association with a gleeful bomber of U.S. landmarks. Not now, though. Everything is secondary to the financial crisis, and tonight’s debate should be devoted solely to a probing of these two knuckleheads’ plans for leading us through it.

Am I wrong here? Do we need to be subjected to audience questions about boxers or briefs and whatever nonsensical topics are surfaced on the idiotic town hall stage? I say if these two can’t enunciate something positive and reassuring for the American people to come away with tonight, then get rid of them and find two others who can. The stakes are too high; the consequences are too perilous.