Branching Out Life Coaching

I don’t think it is just me but are most of the candidates acting like naughty children who need to be sent to the principal’s office for annoying most of the country?

Does the Dummies for President Rule Book include chapters on the fine art of being a playground bully who glares at their opponent with nostrils flaring, to hiring your second cousin to dig up dirt about what some candidates did when they were young (and trust me ,there is nearly a whole generation (except for my sister) who did “stuff” back then and who now won’t run for office because they know that they will be hung out to dry) to spending millions of dollars so they can make up some real nasty stuff about the other guy or Hillary? I mention Hillary by name because she is the only girl running. And I’m a girl.

I watched some of the debates on the days when I wanted to feel like all hope for this country was lost. I have to say if I acted like some of the candidates do, my TV privileges would have been taken away for a week.

And to paraphrase The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. shouldn’t we judge the candidates on the content of the character and not the color of their skin or their gender or who has got the biggest moneybags?

And if all these candidates are as dreadful, corrupt and big fat hairy liars as the other candidates swear they are, shouldn’t they be in jail and not running for the White House?

I have been thinking hard about the November election and I am excited about the possibility of this country going in a new direction, but if the candidates don’t start acting like politicians that young kids will strive to emulate when they grow up, or as honest statespeople that we adults can admire, respect and vote for then I just might not vote twice in November.