Obama and Romney: The Milquetoast Presidential Candidates

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Ayobami Olugbemiga is a political columnist for The Washington Times Communities. An award-winning collegiate journalist, Ayobami received his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is currently pursuing his Master’s degree in George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. In 2013, he was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists with a Mark of Excellence Award for Online Opinion and Commentary.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012


WASHINGTON, D.C.,August 15, 2012 — Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski is right. The 2012 presidential campaign is a like a Seinfeld episode. Except that a Seinfeld episode is actually fun to watch. This campaign is not. In fact, it is stupefyingly boring.

Both candidates regurgitate the same old slogans and phrases that have been excessively polled and focus-group tested. Their talking points are littered with applause line after applause line.
Their speeches are filled with an avalanche of buzz words solely aimed at eliciting a desired emotional response from certain demographic groups.

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