Dear Media and all Americans,

Hillary said this.
Obama said that.
McCan said this.
She's a....
He's a...

STOP drinking the koolaid.
Every time the media creates the basis of our discussion of the country's future out of sound-bites, and schoolyard taunts, rebuttals, and further taunts, and we DEVOUR it, we lose.

We eat it up, like reality tv. Guess what. It's not real. With tv, we know it. It's a guilty pleasure. It's entertainment.
Young men and women or being killed everyday though in an un-winnable war against a phantom enemy. War on terror. Terror is a TACTIC, not an enemy... and we have allowed ourselves to create the terror and the terrorists by embracing this spurious enemy and making it real.
And then, to add insult to injury, during a time where there is nothing more important than the fate of those very soldiers, and our economy, and our health, we ALLOW ourselves to treat the topic as if it WAS reality tv, mere entertainment or distraction at the end of a long day.

Do NOT miss the distinction between the two. We've allowed it. Encouraged it. Lumped it in with Rock of Love 2 and Big Brother.
Our future is not a distraction, so stop treating it like it is.
Don't allow your thoughts and discussion and opinions to be simply reactive to the sound-bites.
Above all, THINK.
The moment you reduce a person to a sound-bite, you disenfranchise yourself.
Imagine for a moment, some idiotic thing you said in your life, and having that define who you are.
Absurd, of course, but that's what we do. We've blurred the line ourselves because it's easier that way. When fiction and life have the same graphics and run-time, you abdicate your responsibility to think.
8 years of this so far while your real freedoms have eroded or been stolen.
Stop. Think.
Will your thinking be defined by this crap?
I hope not.

/RANT