Thank God It's Almost Over

Just when you think the political commercials can't get any worse (Rush Limbaugh accusing Michael J Fox of faking it?!) it gets even closer to Election Day and the rabid rhetoric gets ratcheted up still more. And the calling. I have received calls from the Democratic Governor, her Republican challenger-even a solicialist candidate (it is Ann Arbor after all). It doesn't help that here in the Mitten we have proposals on affirmative action and shooting doveson the ballot.

Yeah, nice cut and dried, nonemotional topics there. Nobody will get agitated about those.

I realize there have been politics since the hunters and the gatherers but has it ever been this nasty? Have we ever been this far apart? (Okay I'll grant you the Civil War, obviously that was worse.) I went to a talk by Steve Roberts last night at the Jewish Book Fair here and he proposed that there are no more liberal Republicans or conservative Democrats, the middle has been carved out leaving us wobbly and unbalanced. I'm no expert but it made a lot of sense to me.

One more day then it will be over. Just one more day.