No Bullshit

I watch this selection of moments from Barack Obama's interview by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday this morning and I just think he did fine. He's smart, he's flawed like any human, but he's steady and he's got a plan:



The only thing missing is the bullshit. Refreshing, isn't it? Now, I know Obama and his campaign have to calculate or calibrate some of the things he says, that's fine, that's called organization.

What's missing is that whole layer of lying, as in modus operandi. As in the clip from Jon Stewart last week chronicling so effectively Hillary Clinton's perfidious swerves in what constitutes true legitimacy in the nomination process. Plain and simple, with her there's always going to be the bullshit, that element of kabuki in her classical media campaigns.

I'm not 100% certain what's going on with John McCain and his campaign, but my guess is that if it isn't bullshit, it's batshit as in batshit crazy, although I expect it's hearty dollops of both.

If we end up with more daily platter bullshit to slog through for four more years, as opposed to freeing ourselves from such an overwhelming percentage of it, we'll only have ourselves to blame for our misery.