Sean Reiser

I really want to enjoy the political season. I believed when things started that this could have shown off the best of America. We had for the first time in a generation, an election where neither of the major party candidates held executive office, which I hoped would bring out a fresh view of our nation's issues and a national debate which would make us a stronger nation. I know this is a rather naive view but it was my hope.

So here's my first question, let's pretend that Sen. Obama is a Muslim for a second here (he's not, I know he's not, I said let's pretend). So what? I know the response "some Muslims are terrorists and we never can know about him". Well. did you know that Sen. McCain's people come from the Province of Ulster (in other words Northern Ireland)? Even though he's denounced Irish Republican Army, what would you expect him to do? I mean how can we really know where his loyalties lie. (Where I'm being tongue in cheek, the image of John McCain planting pipe bombs in Buckingham Palace while visiting the Queen is rather funny).

For balance sake, the other night I saw this beauty on twitter

How can we trust McCain to end the war in Iraq if he couldn't end the Vietnam War?

I really don't know where to begin with this, because it disgusted me. Have we really gotten to the point where we can use McCain's service for his country against him? This man almost gave his life for this nation, and he gets this? I'm sorry, if you agree with him or disagree with him I feel you have to respect his service.

Living in NYC, I rarely get to see political campaign ads at the Presidential level. I spent this past weekend visiting family in Florida and they were playing on the TV. Watching both sides take snipes at each other instead of saying what they stand for in ads we see reasons to hate the other candidate. Does this inspire the hate in voters or is this just pandering to the voter who hate?

A few months back I was looking forward to this race. I was actually excited because I saw (and still see) 2 service minded people who were trying to improve this country. Now, I'm actually disheartened.