Times Union writer Casey Seiler makes a terrible case when he's not 'reporting'. 
Attempting to make some sort of case for the average Joe, he digresses into some hipster reference about a movie made in 1932, as if we all were to know it. This alone should be grounds for reader cessation, but the pull is a local Congressional race.
For over two million dollars we get commercials which keep Mr. Seiler up at night. In my estimation there wasn't a single one that stood out as anything not trite, banal or just lame (the Treadwell tobacco hit being the most notable). I'm wondering what code the term 'affinity' politics relays to his peers in diverging first into Obama and than into Palin. But hey, I don'y get read by thousands and have to endure comments if I did . . .
The scary part comes at the end,
Frankly, I don't want to be represented by someone who's like me. I'd rather the nation was led by the sort of borderline-obsessive, damaged yet enduring figures who helped this country through earlier times of tumult and crisis -- complex, singular individuals like Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Lincoln and FDR are hardly any heroes to me. A little Dilorenzo and John Flynn is good enough for me.
The average Joe can't cope with the complexities of the world that the elites force down our throats. Surely it would be a nightmare if they ran the world.
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