Having Fun

WE KEPT WAITING FOR our two esteemed presidential candidates to show a little personality, but, alas, our hopes were thwarted. We kept getting two cardboard cut out characters in suits, with red and blue ties.

A little sense of humor would have helped. The only time we got it was when a formal banquet sanctioned and mandated that on this night, for one night only, and only in order to make money, they took jabs at one another.

It was funny, but it only lasted a few minutes, the humor was directed at each other instead of at themselves, and all too soon the bubble burst and the prince turned back into a frog at midnight.

Where have all the fun, self deprecating politicians gone? With office seeking a billion dollar investment, there just doesn't seem to be much room for fun. What we need is a good does of abraham lincoln and davy crockett.

These were two very funny men. And they didn't take themselves do damned seriously. Lincoln made fun of the way he looked, his skinny height and unhandsome face, and crockett loved to poke  fun at himself for his frontier lack of grace and education.

"If I were two faced, would I wear this one"? asked lincoln. Crockett abandoned his attempt at formal  eastern  attire and started wearing buckskins around washington city because his fans wanted him to, to live up to his image. Having fun with it.

We the anal retentive uptight electorate seem to excpet our modern politicians to be stiff stereotypes who never change their minds. Heaven forbid that anyone should ever change his or her mind about anything. Must be weak.

Romney has changed his mind more times than a baby changes diapers, and is sahamed of it and hides from it, while he should be proud of his open mindedness. Any modern politician who changes his mind on anything is regarded as an insincere feather in the wind.

Lincoln changed his mind constantly,  as often as he changed civil war generals, and did so unabashadly. crockett started out as a follower of andrew jackson, and ended up a jackson rival.

Give us a little more humor and flexiblity, and a little less image making next time, please.