No one wants to watch the debates. But we all are. It's almost unavoidable. Every website suggests watching it. Xbox live is streaming along with ustream, begging you to watch as soon as you log on. But really nothing worth hearing or that we haven't heard before is going to be said. We all know it and most of us have changed the channel already.
http://www.democracynow.org/ is streaming their version of the debates. Having Jill Stein and Rocky Anderson answer the same questions as the President and Mitt Romney. The primary difference is that the 3rd party candidates don't have to worry as much about what they are going to say. Because frankly not as many people have them under a microscope. They have real ideas about things we could be doing to move things forward and help the lower classes.
Outside the university of Denver there is an Occupy Wall Street protest taking place. You would never know from the lack of background noise and blandness going on in the giant hall on TV with it's T.V. lights, make-up crews, stuffy suits, podiums, and microphones that there is a massive protest going outside with chanting and music. Now they are on the move though marching about Denver. Blasting Rage Against the Machine and chanting.
Earlier in the day University of Denver students were having keggers and getting black out drunk in honor of the state of politics in the United States.
I'm pretty sure everyone listening to Mitt Romney and Barack Obama feels the same nausea. No one likes being pandered to. Even the most apolitical people are aware of the heightened political tension in the air. They talk about not voting, they make statuses constantly about how little they care. But the truth is, even the least political person right now is worried and uncertain about what the future of the country is, because the jig is up.
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