Undecided? Really? Just get on the bus

"First you say you do and then you don't.

"Then you say you will and then you won't.

"You're undecided now, so what are you gonna do?"

Those are the lyrics to a song that was popular in the '40s and '50s, recorded by, among others, Ella Fitzgerald and the Ames Brothers.

A simple song for a simpler time. Today, the song's predicament remains the same. Someone has extreme difficulty making up his or her mind. But there is a heightened urgency to a need for the answer and growing frustration with those who can't provide it.

Yeah, we're talking about those "undecided" voters who watched the recent debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris and still can't figure out who they want to be President of the United States.

Really?

Harris was cool, calm and confident, exactly what one would hope of the current vice president of the United States, also a former senator and prosecutor. She spoke from experience and with compassion. She mostly didn't try to evade questions and definitely didn't make stuff up.

Trump?

On abortion: "They're executing newborn babies."

Out of the blue: "They're performing transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison."

Immigration: "In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in (Haitian immigrants). They're eating the cats. They're eating -- they're eating the pets of the people that live there."

On replacing Obamacare: Moderator (frustrated) : "So just yes or no. You do have a plan?

Trump: "I have concepts of a plan."

The rest was mostly stream-of-consciousness blaming of immigrants for imagined increases in crime rates, defensiveness over the size of crowds at his rallies, mumbo jumbo about tariffs and praise for the two most dangerous leaders in Europe, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Hungary's Viktor Orban. Also a lot of angry faces.

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