Presidential politics

Is my calendar correct …. we are still in 2011? I am reading all these news stories about how the next 10 days will decide who the Republican nominee will be … when not even the first election has been held, much less the convention … and the presidential election isn’t for another 11 months.

Somebody needs to yank the chains of the national news media.

A. Public opinion polls do not decide primary elections … or at least they shouldn’t.

B. Please stop the horse race crap … and let the people decide and then report the results … gee, that would be novel reporting … rather than  hyperventilating over the latest poll numbers or the latest gaffe or the most recent scintillating tidbit that really has no bearing on anything.

Profit

I may be a bit old fashioned, but when did the word “profit” become obscene. I obviously missed something in my education long ago, but I was taught it was alright to try to profit, whether it was from your individual labors or as part of a team or group.

But it seems that I am wrong, or at least it appears that way from various and sundry news stories that have appeared lately.

HuffPo hilights an article pointing out the Presidential wannabe Newt Gingrinch profits from the sales of his many books and videos as he wanders the campaign trail. And they have a problem with this?

I guess I just am backward and born in the wrong era.