Because the election season hasn?t been long or?tortuous?enough, Mitt Romney and President Obama were interviewed by Chris Berman on Monday Night Football last night. Which seems like a waste of time, because if you?re still an undecided voter on the evening of November 5 you?re probably unlikely to have the proper cognitive skills to operate your car to get you to the polls this morning anyway. But hey, they talked about sports, so that?s fun.
I don?t really care what Obama thinks about the Chicago Bears or the college football playoff thing, and I don?t really care what Romney thinks of the Red Sox and Patriots. We all have our rah-rahs. But this answer from Romney about what he thinks is the biggest issue in sports was interesting:
?It has to be the specter of drugs ? and performance enhancing drugs of all kinds,? he said. ?We have to continue to battle that. We have to make sure that our technology keeps up with the people that are trying to skirt around the law. ? We?re going to have to change the culture that says to people, using performance enhancing drugs is acceptable. It is simply not.?
Obama didn?t touch that last night, but in October 2008, as a challenger, he sure did during a radio appearance:
?As a father and an avid sports fan, I understand the dangers that performance enhancing drugs pose for athletes, as well as the teenagers who seek to emulate them, not to mention the effect that these drugs have on the integrity of sports. As president, I would use the bully pulpit of my office to warn Americans about the dangers of performance enhancing drugs, and I would put greater resources into enforcement of existing drug laws. I would also convene a summit of the commissioners of the professional sports leagues, as well as university presidents, to explore options for decreasing the use of these drugs.?
Greater resources into enforcement? Thanks, dude. While it isn?t of extreme importance compared to most of what happens in government, the DOJ?s show trials of PED users is one of the dumbest and more pointless things the government has done in the past four years.
I?m gonna vote later today and based on stuff I?ve written before you probably know how I?m gonna vote. But I will freely admit that I would much prefer it if the government?s involvement in sports controversies was more akin to Romney?s ?working to change the culture? talk than Obama?s ?putting greater resources into enforcement? jazz. ?Government has enough to do without increasing the intensity of its increasingly feckless war on drugs,* let alone the singularly feckless PED battles within that war.
*No, I?m not under any delusion that Romney would ratchet back the overall war on drugs anymore than Obama would. When it comes to that stuff the major parties seem to be in similar, idiotic lockstep.
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