Is it just me... or has the political race been focusing on the stupid?

Chicago Tribune--

It seems like Senator Brock Obama for example has spent more time during this race for the presidency defending or more accurately apologizing for who he associated with as a child, his ministers bigmouth, and being knit picked for every stupid little thing.

Most recently, it was the word "sweetie" in response to a female reporter's question to him.

Obama remarked, ""Hold on one second, sweetie. We'll do a press avail, thanks."

The media and all the PC crowd of course threw out the red flags and commented of just how offensive the word "sweetie" was to that young lady.

The reporter who asked the question commented that she was not offended at all being called sweetie, however, she was more offended by the fact that he did not answer her question.

Shortly after the incident, Obama left a message on the reporters home answering machine apologizing for the use of the word and commented that he meant no disrespect.

I guess my thinking is what should we be more concerned about... that somebody should have to walk on egg shells as they try to express their message to the people and the possibility that their message may be misconstrued and the focus of that message is more on the error then the content of the message itself?

I personally am old tired of the "he said, she said, finger-pointing politics" which distracts from the real issues at hand.