Most Annoying Fads 2007

We have been through so many annoying fads over the past decade including pet rocks, fad diet and exercise videos, pop culture fads, lesbian film fads however, the most annoying during the present political climate has to be Mindless Polls. Most fads come and go, hence the name fads, but this latest fad of polling everything that moves 'politically speaking', has to fall under the top 10 most annoying fads of 2007. Sometimes, it is really hard to believe that these guys who want to be elected our next president are the ones who actually make all the decisions that affect our lives. I mean, come on, do they rally think that polling everything that moves on the planet is really going to make us decide to vote for them?

It is ok for the media to be servants to the powers that be however I think that each individual has already made their mind up as to whom they see fit to run America. Each mindless poll, and some of them are truly idiotic, adds a little more fuel to the fire on the run to to the elections. Paper trails are now a thing of the past as the political machine now turns towards the internet with their endless and pointless polls. This is the year of technology and they have eventually learned how to embrace, use and screw up our minds in the process. I guess I must remember that they are politicians and they have proven that they can literally makes people's lives a living hell.

The internet is the new instument by which campaigns can be controlled and wherby self-certification of a particular political runner can run their entire campaign. Long gone are the days of the cabbage patch doll, troll dolls, flairs, side-burns however politicians and their polling fads just can not be eradicated. No matter how much I try to ignore the old paper polls, try to forget I once owned a pet rock, know who I want to be President of this country, the darn polls and mindless crap attached to them just won't go away. Everywhere you look these days it's polls, polls, polls. I have no idea how to avoid this new form of political marketing other than to switch off my pc, throw every piece of mail I receive in the dustbin and just stay in bed all day with my head under the pillow. I suppose I could run a garage sale however my possessions may be considered unconventional to some. Why bother, I would only bring in a couple of dollars on my old flairs anyway.

Here is a sample of political blunders or crap sayings made by our elected Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Senators or people who hold the reins of our country in their hands: (Makes you think!)

- NIXON:

At his second inaugural address in 1973, where he blows John F.Kennedy's famous line from his inaugural address twelve years earlier out of the water:
"Let each of us ask, not just what will government do for me, but what I can do for myself."

- ROOSEVELT:

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward".

- J EDGAR HOOVER:

Former FBI director; "We are powerless in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it obstructs interstate commerce"

- REGAN:

In 1884 while campaining at McDonalds in Tuscaloosa, Alabama: "What am I supposed to order?".

- TRUMAN:

"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly a difference."

- HARDING:

"It's lucky thing you weren't born a girl, because you can't say no."

QUAYLE:

"The real question i 1988 is whether we're going forward to tommorrow or past to the - to the back."

BUSH:

George bush who labelled himself "THE EDUCATIONAL PRESIDENT" during his 1988 talk with Hispanic high school students in East Los Angeles: "You don't have to go to school to achieve success. We need people who do the hard physical work for our society".

FORD:

"If Lincoln were alive today, he'd roll over in his grave'"

Ok, I'm waffling. Back to these useless idiotic polls. This "new style" of just plain bloody annoying political harassment that has stampeded like a herd of wild buffalo into our lives must be eliminated. This, in my opinion, is one of the most intrusive and peronally annoying fad yet. So, if any politicians are reading this article please go back to paperwork, a solid proven non-intrusive manner of polling, as I can bin it as soon as it arrives in my door. If you want information about yourself read the papers, listen to the radio, listen to your citizens and stop trying to be cool and technical as you are seriously interfering with my tranquility.