Following the disastrous reports of the Wall Street nightmare on CNN came the glamorous shots of Obama and McCain campaigning through the cities. The first words that came out of my mother's mouth was "Shouldn't they be helping out in this crisis and work together instead of the continuous debating and fighting?"

I immediately dismissed that as shallow thought, only seven weeks exist before "America Votes 2008" and Obama would need all the campaigning and debating he can get to gain and edge over the Palin-McCain combo. (Or, if you're Republican, for Palin to convince America that McCain's their man) But then I reconsidered, amidst the turmoil that Wall Street is facing, with touting of a second Great Depression, is it still legitimate for campaigning to be carried out in such a festive matter?

Of course we could argue that it is only through the debates etc. can we gain more insight into these densely economic issues and search for viable solutions. At the other end, regular television watchers can only jump into the conclusion that leaders are merely fighting and not coming to a conclusion. This Wall Street shakeup has its tremors felt all over the world, Singapore no less.