Sanity Test

Every year the President of the United States undergoes a physical examination, presumably to assure the citizens of the country that their elected chief executive is up to the physical strains of the office. (Actually, driving an inner city bus places more physical strain on a person than working in the oval office, no matter how the spin doctors glamorize the job.)

The real test we need is a mental exam, not a “Mensa” or Stanford-Benet type test, but one that tests how sane how he (or she) may be - or in the case of the current President, how loony. And we should establish the lowest acceptable limit as qualification for the office.

The ego factor alone sets a presidential campaigner on the edge - at best - of normal psychology. It it hard to imagine anyone with IQ greater than that of a retarded squid, who has not had a frontal lobotomy, who would be willing to go through more than two years of the insanity we call “campaigning” - to be able to repeat, over and over again, the trite, worn out political hogwash that passes for campaign speeches with a straight face, without laughing out loud at himself.

We all know that money, lots and lots of money, has been the driving force in our presidential campaigns. We no longer speak of millions, now we refer to tens of millions to even stay in the race. We nod approvingly when a candidate announces he will accept no corporate money, but close our eyes to the “people’s” contribution from PACs. But we can’t put all the blame on the candidates, loony or not. The old saying, “People get the government they deserve” has never been truer than right now. We blandly swallow everything we’re fed on TV, radio or E-mail without checking it out.

A sanity test for every candidate or official in the country is probably beyond the realm of possibility - and with the way our elections have been going, no one would believe the results anyway.