Watching the Olympics on tape delay means putting up with a lot of commercials. I've resigned myself to that. I get that NBC needs to try and recoup the money it spent on broadcast rights. But, did they really have to agree to show paid political advertisements for the Obama and Romney campaigns?
During the Olympics, all Americans should be uniting behind our athletes as they battle for the number one spot in the medal standings against their competitors from our primary rival and creditor -- China. It's our civic duty. Instead, we have to see Barack and Mitt taking turns pointing out our differences and driving wedges between us.
Shouldn't they know better? I realize that there are 30-35 million of us watching the Olympics each night. That's a lot of eyeballs. It had to be very tempting for the two campaigns to take the opportunity to buy ad time. Couldn't they have given us a break, though? I, for one, would like one.