Thanks for Your Support (spoken sarcastically)

There was that Charles R. Black Jr. person, a key advisor to Senator John McCain who stated  that a terrorist attack during the campaign would strengthen Senator McCain’s presidential bid. 

Then there was that General Wesley Clark person, a supporter of Senator Barack Obama that said “I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.” 

Then the camp of Senator McCain responded by arranging a phone interview with several military officers and Republican Senators to blast these comments and the terrible practice of Swiftboating.  Then the Democrats informed us all that one of those people who was so opposed to the “Swiftboating” and these comments, a certain Air Force Colonel, Bud Day, was one of the people in the original Swiftboat adds that coined the phrase “Swiftboating.”

After that there was a surprise curveball.  Independent Party candidate Ralph Nader informed the world that Senator Obama was “talking white,” and when questioned about it Mr. Nader informed us that he was afraid of sounding like Jessie Jackson.

Next, a Senator Obama supporter named Jessie Jackson, thinking somehow that whispering made him completely silent to the naked ear (even though he was in front of a microphone and cameras), told the entire planed that he wanted to castrate Senator Obama for “talking down to black people.” I guess maybe Mr. Nader and Mr. Jackson are on the same page.

Senator McCain, who for months admitted that the economy was not his strength took it on the chin for comments his top economics adviser, former Sen. Phil Gramm made.  You ready to hear from the guru of McCainonomics.  He said:  America is “"a nation of whiners" that there are no real economic woes or recession we are in a "mental recession."

The icing on the cake for Senator McCain, who finally appears to be overcoming the question of his age, came when female surrogate and possible Vice-presidential pick for Senator McCain, Carly Fiorina went into a public rant about Viagra and birth control funding.  This not only brought up the age question (and jokes) again, but also sent a shock through the conservative right of his party.

When Senator McCain was asked about the Viagra question he covered his face and with his hands but could not cover the incredibly obvious stress this line of questioning caused him.  The Senator was reduced to a mumbling mess.

Then comes the infamous magazine cover from the liberal magazine the New Yorker.  The picture shows Senator Obama dressed in the attire worn by Osama Bin Laden and his wife with a large afro, AK47 assault rifle slung over her shoulder.  The couple is “fist-bumping” in the Oval Office in front of a picture of Osama Bin Laden with a flag burning in the fireplace.   The paper says this picture was satire and was intended to show how ridiculous these accusations are.  The way that it actually looks is more like a clear attempt to attack Senator Obama and an attempt to be rude.

It is as if the candidates are running through a minefield of idiots hoping to survive the explosions of stupidity.  What it is not like is a serious campaign.  I have been forced to ask myself if every person who comes into contact with either of these candidates or who even mentions one of their names suddenly has a fit of stupidity. 

It is a shame that with all of these people around the candidates blurting out so much stupidity we hardly ever get a moment to hear the stupidity of the candidates.

I am going to call this “four ‘S’” sickness short for Supporter Sudden Stupidity Syndrome.  It is a disorder where supporters of the candidates running for president this year, when presented with a microphone or an audience suddenly have this uncontrollable desire to say something so stupid and damaging to the candidate that he or she supports that it will take weeks for the candidate to stop clearing it up and move on to other issues.

Again I say…With supporters like this, who needs enemies?