Remember when presidential campaigns used to be about issues? I long for those days.

This year’s campaign seems to be about nothing but catching the other guy (or gal) in an embarrassment – the anti-American rants of Barack Obama’s former pastor; the anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic rants of a noted televangelist who endorsed John McCain; Hillary Clinton’s comment about the RFK assassination and her lie about landing in Bosnia under sniper fire; and so on.

I get the feeling that if you stopped the average American on the street and asked him or her to outline the positions of the three candidates on matters of national importance, you’d just get a blank stare.

How sad.