Here's why politics suck in this country, or at least the coverage on it. CNN had a brief segment on the economic polices of Obama vs. McCain. Yay, actual substantive news stories. It lasted about a minute.

Afterwards, they turned to their panel of experts and instead of debating the merits of each proposal, they instead debated about which candidate is doing a better job of conveying their economic policies to the public. So instead of a substantive debate on the issues, one which should hopefully show that McCain has no friggin clue, they had a debate about stage managing and polls and who connects better with blue collar rednecks. In other words, about nothing in particularly useful.

And I'm sure people at CNN were really proud of themselves for the coverage.