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Are you just as excited as I am? You just don't know how happy I am right now. This election is almost over and I can't wait! No more negative ads. No more talk of lipstick on pigs. We won't even have to hear the word "maverick" anymore.

No more finger-pointing and weird facial expressions by John McCain. No more talk about "change" from Barack Obama. “Saturday Night Live” may even stop with the Sarah Palin skits (I know, long shot). After Nov. 4 we will be free from all of it.

Don't get me wrong. I respect all the candidates. But they are making the election more painful than it has to be. I wanted to hear about gas prices, the economy and the war. Not about how much they spend on clothes or ads. And why should I care about some guy named Joe who is supposedly a plumber?

So on Nov. 4 lets have a huge party to celebrate the end of the election season. We can even have cake and (low fat) ice cream!

Dirty politics. We've seen it time and time again. When will it end? I think never. Both major parties do it and they each have intent to smear the other, I think.

For example, I believe Barack Obama's campaign knew that John McCain didn't mean anything racial by the "that one" comment from last week's debate. Even Mrs. Obama said she didn’t it was racial when she appeared on "Larry King Live." I think McCain was being disrespectful, but that's another issue. But Obama's campaign put out a statement right after the debate about the comment and in my opinion suggesting that it was racial. I think they're wrong. But maybe they think it would do them well to play the race card. I think they would wrong to assume that.

John McCain's campaign knows that Obama is not a terrorist. But that didn't stop Sarah Palin form insinuating that at a rally recently, saying he was "palling around" with terrorists, referring to William Ayers. It has been reported that at some McCain/Palin rallies that people have screamed out "kill him." I don’t know whom the folks were referring to but either way that is not a good thing.

Both parties need to put a stop to it and last week both sides tried to have nicer campaigns. But they need to do more, like not bait citizens. Each side should talk about the issues and that's it. That's just my opinion. What's yours? And which campaign is dirtier, McCain's or Obama's?