"...Ain't Gonna Be Much Of A Crop This Year...."

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Banana.

Banana who?

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Banana.

Banana who?

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Banana.

Banana who?

Back in a minute with the answer.

When it comes to a healthier future, there are, in this election, a couple of nutritional choices.

Put simply, apples and oranges.

Whether you see Barack Obama and Mitt Romney as the apple and the orange, respectively, or vice versa is, obviously, irrelevant.

It's pretty obvious that once you get past the snarky, backbiting, zinger filled, virtriolic name calling, head bashing and bitch slapping they like to think is a positive and productive campaign for the presidency of the United States, that these two guys share very similar views on pretty much nothing.

So, for the sake of discussion, let's say that Obama is the apple and Romney is the orange.

The differences between the two are many and varied and your preference for one or the other will, obviously, be based on a number of factors not the least of which being your personal taste, your belief in which one will make things better and/or whatever passionate media supporter of which you choose to follow.

As far as issues themselves go, there a couple hundred places online you can go to take a look.

Here's a link to just one.

My treat.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markfidelman/2012/08/14/romney-versus-obama-10-striking-visual-business-comparisons/

Meanwhile, back at the fruit bowl.

From the tone and texture of the campaign to this date, I can't help but think that both those who are convinced to a moral certainty that the country is going to go to hell unless we go apple and those who are convinced to a moral certainty that the country is going to go to hell unless we go orange are overlooking a pretty obvious, and admittedly sad, fact.

While both have their good qualites, neither one seems ready, or able, to meet all of our nutritional needs.

And they've spent almost all of the precious time available sniping back and forth at each other on why we should pick them.

Personally, when it comes to making the all important decision as to which one will provide our ailing society with the nourishment it so clearly needs, I can't help but think.....

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Apple and orange.

Apple and orange who?

Apple all is said and done, orange you sad there's no banana?