Election Blues?

For the life of me I can't figure out why it takes more than a year to elect a new president or relect the present one if that is the case.

In the United States, our November, 2012 election, started many months ago with more than half a dozen Republican candidates vying to replace Barack Obama, who, so far, is running unopposed. Millions of dollars have already been spent and millions more will be spent before all is said and done. How sad that seems to me when we have people who don't even know where their next meal is coming from in this country, where they will sleep tonight, or if they will ever find another job again.

Perhaps we should sit all these candidates down, force them to calculate how many meals the dollars they have already spent in this campaign could have provided; how many shelters could have been constructed for the homeless; and how many jobs could have been created for those out of work.Then we can collectively stand in a circle around them and shout , "Shame on you! Have you all lost your minds?"

Maybe it's time we considered changing our method of choosing a president. How about having all the members of congress put their names in a hat and draw one out every 4 years? That wouldn't be any worse than what has been happening for the last several presidential elections.

Or maybe the governors of every state could meet together some weekend and choose a president. That way only 50 people would be involved, and since they were elected to the highest office in each of their individual states, they should be representative of the people of their state, and therefore qualified to choose a president. In fact, they might even choose the president from one of the 50 governors present at the meeting.

Just think of the money saved. Think of the hateful retoric avoided. Think of the time not wasted in comparison to the drawn out contests of today.

I love the idea. How about you?