Better uses for campaign funds
by Brian Wainstein, Editor-In-Chief

   President Bush leads with campaign funds nearing $50 million in this quarter alone.
   The average donation was apparently $280.
   What this means is that almost 262,000 people donated that money.
   That’s 262,000 people paying for mass propaganda so more unsuspecting schmoes will donate their money so more people donate theirs, leading America into a never-ending cycle of despair.
   That’s a staggering amount of money about to be wasted on 30-second commercials, pamphlets and sound bites.
   Why can’t they put that money to better use?
   Instead of donating to some crowd-pleasing politician, could people not donate to the charities and causes that the candidate says he champions?
   Surely, that would be the better option.
   We should judge potential presidents on their merits, not the pretty colors shining on a piece of glass or who endorses them.
   Voters should vote logically, not impulsively.
   Being a techie, I am all for the Terminator running California, but how many Californians voted for him because of his political platform?
   Oh, wait, he never had one.
   California’s Last Action Hero may have won thanks to his competition. He was the least bad candidate. His opponents included a former adult actress, Different Strokes actor Gary Coleman and Hustler publisher Larry Flynt.
   We mustn’t forget the old lieutenant governor, but what Americans want is someone who looks good on TV, not someone with, heaven forbid, experience.
   Time will show how wise the public’s voting decision was; I am just disappointed with the general public’s reasons for voting for whom they did.
   If people thought more before they voted, all of the money wasted on campaign propaganda would be turned to better use.
   That money could build and finance an asylum for insane former politicians. And we’d have enough left over to buy hundreds of acres of rain forest, protecting it from demolition, not to mention the other few hundred saved from an untimely end as pamphlets. And with the last few million, we could always feed the hungry and build a homeless shelter.
   But why do that when the Bush campaign needs new headquarters?