Spiraling and Spiraling...

When I turn on the TV, or get on the internet, there are many things that I get sick of hearing about that I wish the media could just forget about. But never in my life have I ever gotten so sick of hearing about a certain "Joe the Plumber". It seems like every time I check up on the news, there he is in the spotlight. The Republican party has blown this completely out of proportion and it shows the desperation of John McCain. Never before in a presidential race been revolved around getting a nobody to be the spotlight of your campaign (with all respect Palin). I don't know why McCain think it's going to work now. But like I said, maybe he thinks this change is for the better.
For those of you who don't really know 'Joe', here is a little background. One day, a guy was talking to Obama on his campaign trail about his policies and plans as president. Later, this same person criticized Obama of being a socialist with his healthcare plans and other policies. So McCain learned about this and as we all know, used it repeatedly in the third and final debate and was quick to become the centerpiece of his campaign.
But there is a lot of irony in this whole story. The guy's name really isn't Joe. He wants to buy the plumbing company his boss owns that does not make over the $250,000 that Obama has planned for higher taxes. And he hasn't been quite the best on paying his taxes in the first place. McCain has stood up for this 'Joe' and mislead the entire nation in what Obama's plans really are. He is raging on with one of the most negative campaigns in the history of any presidential campaign. McCain has taken his level of desperation to new heights with this whole issue. It was kind of funny in the debate after the third time but after the eighteenth, I was ready to turn the channel.
It now has come to a level that you can get on a website and submit your own 30 second ad to the McCain campaign as to why Obama shouldn't be the president and if it is selected as the winner, it will be used by McCain. Um...uh...really? How has politics come to this level? Is it really that hard to encourage people to become excited over politics that you have to bribe them with a contest? This sickens me. I'll tell you how to encourage people. You tell the Americans what's wrong with the present state of the nation and you tell them how you plan on fixing it. Quit using fear and desperation to try and scare people to your vote. Politics is quickly going off the deep end and I'm not quite sure if anybody is going to fix it. I'm scared to see what's going to happen in the future.