Groundhogs Day
May 14th, 2008 by T Hoch
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Lately I’ve been feeling like Phil Conners. Who’s Phil Conners you ask? He’s the character played by Bill Murray in the 1993 movie “Groundhogs Day”.
If you’ll recall, Phil is caught in some kind of time warp. Every morning the clock radio goes off at 6:00am with Sonny and Cher singing “I’ve got you Babe”. Every morning it’s Tuesday and it’s Groundhogs Day. He then proceeds through the day running into the same characters and repeating the same events. It’s a good film — it’s probably been a while since you’ve seen it, so rent it and enjoy it all over again.
Anyway, back to me. Lately, every morning I’ve been getting up to the same back-and-forth reporting on the Democrat Presidential Campaign for the nomination. Will it ever end? It’s “tuesday” every day, we listen to the same drivel from candidates that are only telling their audiences what they think the audience wants to hear, we listen to their same spin on what the results mean — and this goes on for months and months, years and years.
How did we become a nation where not only is “politician” a lifelong career, but where “campaigner” is becoming a career too? How did we let that happen?
Why wouldn’t it make sense to mandate a campaign period of 6 or 8 weeks? To limit the amount of money spent to some reasonable amount?
I, for one, am ready.
T
