It is the season to be folly in the US

The Republican Party electoral campaign to select a candidate to challenge the incumbent president Barack Obama started this past week in the upcoming presidential race next November.

This signals the start of what is commonly known as “Folly Season”, a familiar occurrence that preludes the race for the White House, said the Dubai-based newspaper Al Bayan in its editorial.

Folly season is the time where various candidates attempt to appeal to the voters by raising inconsequential but exciting issues that are closer to “tabloids” than to political proposals. This is in addition to auction-like bids to woo this or that lobby.

“It seems that the season to be folly has started early this year in the US,” opined the paper. “Especially following the scandalous recent statements of the Republican hopeful Newt Gingrich regarding the Palestinian people.”

Evidently, he was met with fierce competition from his republican counterparts at a time when silence fell on the US administration that can’t afford at this time to infuriate the allpowerful Jewish lobby.

As usual, the Middle East peace process will be the biggest victim of the quest for presidency. Once again, the Palestinians will have to wait for the outcome of the elections to start all over again to attempt to revive the stalled process should Mr Obama remain in his position.