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For President?
None of the above
We wish that we could use this space to endorse either George Bush or Michael Dukakis as the next President of the United States.
We can’t.
Instead, we share with most voters the frustration of a campaign which has been filled, not with high-minded discussions of the pressing problems and difficult choices which the next president will have to make, but with mudslinging, name-calling, shameless pandering and political demagoguery.'
The result, unfortunately, may very .well be the lowest voter turnout in modern times.
hither Mr. Bush or Mr. Dukakis will preside over some of the most difficult times of any recent president. It seems clear to all but the partisan career politicians of both parties and their advisors that neither candidate has given the American public any concrete proposals about how they plan to approach the problems which face us.
Mr. Bush talks of “a thousand points of light.” If a Democrat had said that, he would be accused of suffering an LSD flashback. 1
Mr. Dukakis, meanwhile, is on the defensive. He rides a tank wearing a helmet that doesn’t fit and is so ill-informed that he tells a group of factory w orkers “You are the survivors” of foreign takeovers — not having been told that particular factory is owned by an overseas company.
All these quips and slips are great fodder for the evening news. The election of ’88 has become a campaign of daily photo opportunities, a contest hinging on who can spewr out t he best phrase which fits the allotted time.
I ntortunately, the discussion of critical issues doesn’t fit television s format. What is required is realistic proposals, not attacks on the opposition’s patriotism or assertions that the deficit can be cured by collecting delinquent taxes.
I ’nfortunately, with less than a month to go, it doesn’t appear that anything will change.
We'd like to suggest that the voters opt for a write-in candidate: Electoral Reform. It’s a non-partisan choice—and one that's overdue.
And. if that write-in candidate wins, the only losers will be the politicians.
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