When I was in elementary school, I remember cutting out silhouettes of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on their respective birthdays. I guess the amount of construction paper needed to create tributes to all the presidents would have bankrupted the school districts, so we’ve boiled the celebration down to one day. It’s no secret that I’ve been appalled by some of the antics around electioneering. Buying influence has angered the American people, so Bernie Sanders and

Brace yourselves…Here come the Presidential candidates with their posturing, not-so-subtle character assassinations, and the endless ads that you and I are paying for. It’s like paying the electric bill before they strap you into the chair. It’s true, we’re in the age of media with its endless droning of sales and persuasion. There are ads that are so repetitive that they haunt our consciousness. But there is nothing as irritating as political ads. Politicians hire huge sta