To steal a phrase from Tom Friedman, America's best newspaper columnist, the presidential campaign is starting to make us all stupid.
As the candidates are starting to look for votes among the general electorate who are just starting to wake that there is an election this year, the campaigns have take a turn to the insipid.
John McCain has his crowds chanting 'Drill, Baby, Drill.' Never mind that even if we started drilling off our coast it will take 8 to 10 years to see the gasoline in our tanks and never mind it will only maybe knock 20 cents off the price of a gallon of gas, Republicans have successfully been able to launch themselves into the lead in the polls. And we won't even mention more drilling just continues our dependence on a polluting energy resource.