The Rent is Too Damn High Succeeds in Distracting Everyone

I love CNN.Com. I know I must be a 22 year old dude in a 50 unhappily married mans body, but I love it so much. Anyways, last week I found an amazing video, which I then sent to my teacher...or you? Our teacher? Anywhays, it was sent to whoever it was sent to because it was about a debate. In this case, it was about a debate for New York governor position. While I am not good with names, the two "official" people running...or rather, the people that have been king made, have gotten pretty darn heated towards each other in these past few months as the race has been getting closer and closer to the finish line. So in order to take the heat off of the two main candidates, they basically had a farce of a debate. They had three independent candidates up for the debate as well, making a total of 5 people "debating". The thing about this though--is that no one really debated. There was no clashing between any of the candidates, but I believe that was 100% intentional in order to take the heat of the other two main candidates, who had already been at eachother's throats for quite a while now. To the inattentive public, I am sure that this was a very awesome and hilarious thing to see...mainly based on how ridiculously funny parts of it were. Even the moderators were laughing at times because they could not even take what was going on seriously. This debate seemed even worse than what political debates normally are. I think of political debates as cars that keep spinning their wheels in the mud, but will move forward and backward--if nothing else based on the passion of one candidate or another. In this case though, it just seemed like all five candidates were spinning their wheels in the mud with absolutely no intention of moving forwards or backwards. It was simply a show, almost like an SNL skit, or the one we watched in class.

http://tv.gawker.com/5667182/crazy-rent-is-too-damn-high-candidate-steals-the-show-at-ny-gov-debate?ref=nf