Rambling

Tonight I watched a video of Sen. Joe Biden that was featured on CNN. He ended with the words "God bless America, and may he protect our troops."

It seems every political speech has to end with a similar afterthought. I don't doubt that Sen. Biden believes that, or hopes that. But why did he say it? He said it purely for the political malarkey. Just to try and tap that one religious or patriotic voter, to make the voter think "Oh he cares about the troops!"

It is disgusting, and while I have deeply believed that Obama will lose this campaign, his selection on Vice President has only confirmed his defeat. Biden was his opponet just months earlier, and I dare one reporter to pose him this question. "Do you still believe that you would make a better president than Sen. Obama?"

Of the three options, yes/no/no comment, all of them have implications to the future. Were he to answer yes, then it undermines Obama. To answer no undermines himself. Not answering at all will lead the reader to draw their own conclusions, and they will conclude whatever helps them with what they want to believe.

I have a lot of respect for the general cleanliness of this campaign, and for both candidates. That these two men are running proves one thing: In general, Americans are not looking for a partisan candidate, to continue the partisan hacking that has paralyzed this country for 40 years. They want someone who is genuinely interested in reaching across the nation for real solutions to the absolutely terrifying problems looming in our future. 12 years, give me 12 years.

I'm a Big Ol' Liar

I haven't updated in forever, and I said I would. Today I'm going to talk about the 2008 presidential election, which will probably be a big focus of mine for the next eight months.

There are a few topics to look for in the coming updates. All of the presidential candidates have a lot to be said for and against them. I also want to take a look at a few things that are going on in Iraq. But for today, we are going to be talking about Florida and Michigan.

I'm sure that everyone who doesn't live under a rock knows the basic premise by now. Florida and Michigan's votes will not count in the democratic primary because they happened too early for the Democratic National Convention. Apparently the cost of a re-vote is about $25 million, and the DNC doesn't want to pay for it. Well, if Florida broke the rules and voted early who paid for the first one? I don't know the answer, but if the DNC paid for a vote that didn't count they are idiots and shouldn't have paid for it. If the states paid for the vote, shouldn't the DNC have money allotted for those states to have Primaries anyways?

While I will work on getting those questions answered, I think that this is not the focus we need to put on this event. When Florida and Michigan said they were going to break the rules, the Democratic front runners refused to campaign in those states. Now, if a candidate refuses to go to your state it shows you just how much they really care about you. I thought it was the United States, not the United States that will get me in power. Instead they went to other states who's delegates actually counted for them to win the process.

To make matters worse, now that it comes down to the wire and Obama and Clinton are closer than either thought they would be, both candidates are pleading for Florida and Michigan to be heard. In itself that is enough reason to prove that both of these candidates are unfit to lead this country. That kind of two-faced pretending to care is the exact thing that we need to get out of our government. Don't pretend to care, actually care.

How do we stop this problem from ever happening again? Make these primaries all happen on one single day. We do it for President, so you can't tell me it isn't logistically possible. If they happened on the same day across the country, then no one would be first and no one would be left out. The candidates would have to do a major rework of their time, and it would stop the campaign process from dragging on for months.

Our entire electoral process needs major reformation, which is the topic of a post in itself but not one that I will go in to today.

A New Year

I was about to have a moment of De Ja Vu and write "Well, it's been a long time since I've written..." I would like to apologize to anyone who has checked my blog and not seen anything new in the past six months. This post is going to be rather short, just to get myself back in the groove of things. Things have changed drastically over the past year. I have lost a job, struggled with trying to start a new business, started a new job at a gun store and much more.

I miss writing, and it saddens me that the time I spent on this blog went to waste. It was a subject of great pride seeing my audience grow and hearing the feed back from complete strangers who agreed or disagreed with what I had to say. I am going to try to start updating my page at least twice a week, starting slow and building my way back up.

There is a whole new year ahead of us and this will be an important year for America, as every election year is. So as with many other people around the world, many of my posts will be dealing with that. I got burnt out writing about Iraq and Iran for six months, so something new will hopefully be a positive change. I plan on throwing in some lighter hearted stuff as well so that I don't get bogged down in writing about the same things over and over again.

Talk to you all later in the week.