Election year garbage | Glenn Greenwald

Whatever is awful about the US political process is magnified in the election season, and increases each day until it's mercifully over

These episodes, all from the last 24 hours, demonstrate why I cannot wait for the election to be over:

Mitt Romney, Monday, in his heralded foreign policy speech:

"This is the struggle that is now shaking the entire Middle East to its foundation. . . . In short, it is a struggle between liberty and tyranny, justice and oppression, hope and despair."

Mitt Romney,...