Can You Get on with This American Presidential Election Already?

Since the World can't seem to get away from American politics I just want to give the following message to U.S. voters, presidential candidates and vice-presidential candidates (you know who you are): please stop goofing off and get on with this presidential election!

I know the U.S. presidential election is not due for another two months but I just wish the media in other parts of the world (because, believe it or not, there are people living beyond the frontiers of the U.S.A.) would just forget about covering the "imminent" presidential election and focus on more important topics because this has been going on for one year now (one full year!). I know some people who thought the U.S. presidential election was taking place in November of 2007!

I must say that to some, the American election has become almost as famous a sitcom as "Friends" was in the nineties; I'm just wondering when are the media going to bring in the canned laughs. For example, one presidential candidate whom I won't name thought it would be a good idea to come on a tour of Europe; come on now, isn't this going a bit too far? Who does he think he is: a rock star? That tour made it look like the presidential candidate in question wasn't aware that European citizens can't vote in the U.S. election (canned laugh: hahaha!). I'm not sure I'd want to vote for a president who doesn't know a thing about geography, and more seriously I don't see the point in electing a person who doesn't care about burning jet fuel for a completely useless trip around Europe.

Just in case you might think I am trying to sabotage Barrack Obama's (there, I named and shamed him!) chance to win the election, I will also give a big thumbs down to the Republican presidential candidate, John Mc Cain. I don't know much about him, just that he's like 192 years-old and Republican. Now U.S. citizens, do you really want another Republican president? In case your memory is short (I know that a lot of Americans are well known for their short attention-span), may I remind you that you voted not once, but twice (you people are stubborn!) for President George Bush? Didn't you get enough of his foreign policies in the Middle East that resulted in 9/11 and the ensuing war against terrorism? We Europeans sure did, just looking at the prices of oil in petrol stations and the resulting hike in our grocery bills reminds us every day!

As for Mc Cain being old, well everyone knows that being the President of the World (sorry, of the United States of America) takes its toll on a man, but hey, why worry when you got the sexiest vice-president ready to take control? I just hope that trying to stay sexy won't be too hard on Sarah Palin and that running the country won't take too much time off looking after her own appearance (she already spent so much time in front of the mirror at home that she didn't notice her teenage daughter getting pregnant behind her back).

Well, whoever you decide to vote for, I urge you make a quick decision; as a person who would rather a quick death than a slow and painful one I just wish you could apply that principle to the presidential election. I will be glad when this election will be over but I'm feeling even more relieved that being a European citizen I don't have to choose between any of the animals running this circus!

Note: if you think my calling this election a circus is a bit extreme, just take a look at this article's resource links.