This is my second presidential election being "legal" to vote. It has been more enjoyable, or entertaining to say the least, than I expected. Why so entertaining, you ask? Let us recap a few of the best and worst moments and/or statements of the campaign

•"You can put lipstick on a pig," Obama said during a campaign stop. "It's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still going to stink after eight years."

•"The only difference between a soccer mom and a pit bull is lipstick," said Sarah Palin.

•During the second presidential campaign McCain called Obama "that one." Newsday reports that in a back-and-forth discussion of a Bush-Cheney energy bill, McCain said of Obama: "You know who voted for it? You might never know: that one," he said, pointing to, but not looking at, Obama as he sat nearby. "You know who voted against it? Me."

•Fox News ran a story about Obama bashing the American dream by questioning McCain’s ability to remember how many houses he had. How many houses he has isn’t the problem, but if he has enough to pause to remember how many, will he really be able to relate to those that cannot even afford one house?

•A statement made by John McCain at his former high school in Alexandria VA, describes his early temperament: "…as a young man I responded aggressively and sometimes irresponsibly to anyone who I perceived to question me…" He continues, "as an adult I’ve been known to forget occasionally the discretion expected of a person of my years and station…"

•Many news papers and broadcasts have reported Obama to have been raised as a Muslim. Fox News reported that Obama went to elementary school in a Muslim school in India. The school replied that the religion of the students had nothing to do with the school.

•According to www.factcheck.org, a McCain-Palin TV ad tells viewers that Obama is the "most liberal" U.S. senator. He was rated #1 in 2007 but only 10th and 16th in the two previous years. Obama replied "folks are lying." The commercial goes on to say that Obama is "not presidential," because he defended himself by stating they were lying.

•Also from www.factcheck.org, Obama and McCain both make false statement about each others’ health care plans. McCain’s plan is a market-based system that relies on tax incentives. Obama falsely said that this would be the "largest middle-class tax increase in history." Obama’s plan is to propose new subsidies to expand private insurance and some extension of government insurance. McCain said it would "rob 50 million employees of their health insurance." This is also false.

•According to the Wall Street Journal, Sarah Palin, during the Vice Presidential debate, used the word maverick 15 times, although Biden used it more often than Palin.

Some of these comments about fish and pigs are funny but I really wish sometimes that politicians could just get to the point and talk about the issues. People need to know what the candidates believe and how they plan to run the country. We need truth instead of getting buried in lies and smear comments. But hey if it were all "straight talk" then shows like SNL and The Colbert Report wouldn’t be as funny.