LOSING FAITH

These are the days when every Chicagoan loses faith! Faith in the political system. Not because every candidate is so bad, but mainly because every candidate's campaign is. This month some of these campaigns have reached for new lows, like bringing dead politicians out of the grave and melodramatically suing their opponent.

However, what really kills our faith is how every candidate follows the same dreary, disillusioning script: They feature out-of-context quotes from newspapers they claim support them...they stage phony on-location testimonials by citizens they insist agree with them...they slam their opponent with half-truths, kiss a few babies, shake a few hands and always always promise to lower taxes.

You'd think just once, one of them would tear up the script and try something revolutionary. Like telling us what's gone wrong and exactly how together we have a fighting chance to change it. Oh wait, come to think of it, that can get you killed! There was Kennedy, McKinley, Lincoln...well, you get the idea.