If You Don’t Have Anything

Nice To Say…

To the Editor:

Now that the elections are over and the candidates no longer feel the need to appeal to us in any way shape or form, I’d like to make a suggestion for our next election.

If you can’t say anything nice about your opponent please don’t say anything at all, even if you “approve of this message.” The media campaigns over the past three weeks have been typical. According to Nancy Johnson, Chris Murphy is in favor of allowing crack dealing sex offenders to live with children in public housing, and according to Mr Murphy Nancy Johnson wants to see the price of prescription drugs go up. Perhaps they could run on the same ticket and simply just raise the price of prescription drugs for all crack dealers! Have you ever heard of another person say that he or she thinks that crack dealers should live with children and wished they could pay more for prescription drugs? An actual crack dealer wouldn’t even agree with that.

I received a numbers of calls from a female prerecorded robot representing Ned Lamont, and it seemed the same robot called later that day representing Joe Lieberman. What kind of robot calls twice in one day? The nerve of that robot. Voice recordings just don’t sway me left or right. Are there people out there that actually listen to the robot on the other end? “I spoke to the nicest robot today and I’m now on its team.”

I was delighted to see Bill Clinton’s name on my caller ID and was so disappointed when I realized it was the prerecorded voice of Bill Clinton.

I actually hung up on President Clinton. I’ve never hung up on a President before. What kind of President makes prank calls?

All of these attempts at our vote cost time and dollars and for the most part are usually about trashing their opponent. We all know that Nancy Johnson is not in favor of force-feeding steroids to the elderly so she can support her heroin addiction no more than Chris Murphy wants to see the steroid Olympics played in Connecticut because he has a secret crush on Barry Bonds.

Nancy, Chris, Ned, Joe, the four of you are capable of so much more, and after you finish your vegetables, please go to your rooms.

What can we do to assure that the next election is something that at least attempts to raise our awareness? Perhaps in 2008, we call for a ban on all political advertising that has to do with our opponent. If you can’t run a campaign based on your ideas then you may not want to run at all.

Gavin Preis

49 Flat Swamp Road, Newtown                             November 6, 2006