If you don’t live in a swing state, you have no idea how pervasive the advertising is. It is non-stop, and has been for months.
I can only imagine. Romney gave up on Michigan practically as soon as he came through the primaries. I’ve only seen the occasional Obama ad and little to nothing from Romney.
It’s been rather nice.
I can attest the Spike (5) and Squeaky (3) have had the same reaction, short of crying.
[QUOTE=Spike, yesterday]
Dad, can you pleeeeeeease turn on some music. I’m tired of election stuff.
[/QUOTE]
My daughter has taken to screaming “BARACK OBAMA! IT’S OBAMA!” every time she sees or hears the President’s voice on TV. (She’s two and a half.) My son, who just turned five, delights in saying “Mitt Romney…” in an admiring voice ('cos he knows it irks Dad) before saying, “But I’m voting for Obama!”
We live in Texas, where there are no presidential ads. We watch the news but the punditry is usually from The Daily Show or Nate Silver, which they don’t see.
that’s if her parents only had one tv.
back in the day before internet, computers, cable/sat tv, color tv; then you had one to three tv channels and they showed the political conventions gavel to gavel for days. nothing more was on tv; not The Price is Right, no cartoons, not Captain Kangaroo, nothing.
did we cry, no (though we could have). we went outside. we played football, real football not this international crap. we couldn’t skateboard, they hadn’t been invented yet.
we were sterner stuff than this precious snowflake.
…One TV? How lucky was that? We lived in a hole in the road and would have killed to see political ads on a real TV. When we played football we had to use our baby brother for the ball. Did he whimper when a forward pass was dropped? Yes, we were made of sterner stuff in the old days…(maunders on into age-inflicted incomprehension.):smack:
I think NPR should be deeply embarrassed by its facile down-dumbing of its journalistic product (“We should make sure our reporting is simplistic enough not to tax the intellects of four-year-olds!” ) And NPR’s audience (which I categorically exclude myself from) should resent the insinuations implicit in this asinine “apology.” And it should settle forever the argument that NPR truly is an insipid wasteland of middlebrow pablum (as is much of our so-called serious media). (The name “Abigael” [sic] alone should be enough to herald the impending presence of the middlebrow.)
:dubious:
Too close to home, yet so far away.
Yes, we all know you’re against being nice to people. Can you be quiet about it?
Ah, yes: “niceness” — the studied refusal to admit that somethings are better, more heroic, more beautiful, or more important than other things. At least, it refuses to admit it when “niceness” isn’t instead going around apologizing to the base, the venal, the dull, and the indolent for the existence of (other) human’s struggles and accomplishments.
“Niceness,” then, is the very chief virtue of the middlebrow (as so amply demonstrated in your remonstrance). “How was the theater?” “Oh, it was so nice!” Nothing could be deadlier; let’s all go back to nursery school and take a four-year-old’s outlook on the world.
So, you’re right. I am against being “nice” to people.
I don’t know. She could have a career in politics too! Her first job, limiting presidential campaigns. 
What the?
CRITIC, n.
A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.