"Bobby" Made Me Sad

I promise I'll be brief. I watched the movie "Bobby" Saturday night and I came away angry. And you may wonder why, let me tell you. Bobby Kennedy was shown talking to children who looked to be about nine or ten years old. He was discussing the ENVIRONMENT, forty years ago! He was using words like "refuse" instead of "garbage" with basically fourth graders! Do you think a candidate for national office would do that now? Do you think a candidate COULD do that? Our politics have made the conversation between politicians and the voting public so dumb it makes me crazy. Just go and listen to the speeches of John or Robert Kennedy, Martin L. King Jr. or even their polar opposites at the time, Richard Nixon or any other Republican, and at least they discussed the issues of the times. You might have disagreed with these people, but they spoke to us like we were adults, they didn't dumb down the conversation and they spoke about whatever the issue was. Nowadays, it's always about the politics not the issues, it's all about the negative crap that someone has done in their past or in private. Hey, John F. Kennedy was prolific at sleeping out on his wife and the press managed to keep that out of the press and where it belonged, between a husband and wife (and who ever else was involved). It is not my business who he slept with and it's not yours, just like it's not my business who the ex-governor of NY slept with either. That doesn't mean I don't think he was as stupid as they come for targeting whores and whore houses and then sleeping in one, with one. Anyway, I said I'd be quick.

If Barak Obama or John McCain are going to occupy the White House for the next four years, shouldn't we at least ask them to be able to speak eloquently, or at least well? Shouldn't they at least expect us to understand the basics of the English language and not have to dumb down their speeches so "all" can understand? Maybe "all" shouldn't be voting unless they get tutoring. Just a thought.