One-ups have gone TOO far

Humor me for a moment and consider the campaign trail to be a pot of boiling water. Imagine that the pot is the campaign season itself, and the boiling water inside is the substance; the issues and the rhetoric of the candidates. If so, it seems the current financial crisis, among other things, has effectively vaporized all the water (a.k.a. substance) from both campaigns.
McCain and Obama began their battle for the white house by advertising themselves as the most worthy candidates. They proceeded to highlight their opposition's weaknesses, which in most campaigns is to be expected. However, as of late the candidates have taken their battle to new lows in choosing to accuse their opponent of things that are untrue, tell egregious lies about themselves and their record (maybe this is just Sarah Palin), and by frequently making promises that are impossible to keep.
McCain has built a career on advocating against over-regulation of business, but in light of the current financial crisis he has cried louder for wall street regulation than Karl Marx would have if he were here today!
Obama is promising give money back in tax breaks to nearly all Americans, spend tremendous amounts of money funding his national health care project, lower gas prices, and clean up Washington and clean up wall street and bake everyone in America cakes on their birthdays beginning on inauguration day. Where will all this money come from?
Obama plans to get his by stopping the Iraq War, but we aren't even spending tangible money in Iraq. Stopping the war just means we stop digging ourselves further into debt. McCain says the money will come through the removal of earmarks. New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes said in an interview with Gwen Ifill tonight that in comparison with the $700 Billion proposed bailout of Wall Street, earmark spending amounts to a rounding error. (The way Jackie puts it all together in the interview is really well done, you should check out the link below to listen to it).

Do we really have to listen to this out-of-hand, foundation-less pandering for 41 more days?! The media needs to take a stand and call both candidates out for the bluffs that they are making EVERY SINGLE DAY on the campaign trail. Each crazy promise is one-upped by an even more outlandish one from the opposing camp without so much as a peep from our so-called public watchdogs. With both candidates building their towering campaigns on false promises, we are sure to be let down when one of them actually sits down in the oval office and has no idea what or how to remedy 95 out of the 100 wrongs they promised you and I they would right.

Link to /newhours interview with Jackie Calmes and Amy Walter:
http://www-tc.pbs.org/newshour/rss/media/2008/09/22/20080922_campaign28.mp3