McCain Obama

To put a few brief notes on the table, i want to say that this presidential election is a celebration of what it means to be American. Us Americans have the privilege to choose, to fight, to criticize, and to stand up for freedom during this year's election and on any other day of the year for that matter. On the 2004 election day, only 64% of Americans showed up at the polls. 64%. And how close was that election again? Especially in Ohio. Oh yeah, Ohio had a 52 minute wait to vote and 3% of voters turned around and left that day because honestly, who has the time for that? I don't even want to get into the issue of voting machine allocation where a discriminatory agenda was supposedly set. I'm getting to the point that when American's actually cast their ballot, feelings of patriotic energy fill the air and the months and months of campaign attacks from one party against the other are all put behind them with one good handshake. It's mostly on TV, where a whole culture develops and feeds into towns and cities across the nation. It is unlike any other time that our day-to-day language is constructed by the careful words of candidates. Personally, I think that candidates act as just another celebrity in our whole catalog of people in People magazine. People magazine is like the dirty little Bible. Not all of us are exposed to the issues, sadly, but all of us know that Clay Aitken is gay. Oh joy. This kind of drama is all the American people can handle at one time, yet somehow it infiltrates all of us, even us educated folk. So as we pick celebrity after celebrity and pick apart their lives, we form our own perfect utopia in all of our heads. We tell ourselves, this is who we want to be living in our own little island of a society. They reflect everything that we want them to reflect, however flawed they may be. And this election especially, or is it just me, I feel that these two candidates are telling us complete bullshit, hiding just about everything there is to know about their party's agendas. The rumors are true, life is a continuation of high school and I'm pretty sure Sarah Palin proves that. It doesn't really matter if you are pro choice or anti war or hardcore American fan, godbless. All that matters is that you go to the polls and choose. Choose what celebrity you want running this place for the next 4 years. Dick Cheney says that we should choose the right friends and I can't agree more. Choose friends who challenge what they are given because trust, as I know it, is nonexistant among the people who run this country. I guess that's what I'm basing this election on. Who I can trust more? I trust myself and my friends and I believe that that's all you need. If you want to run for president, do something great and earn your trust. I haven't heard anything from these candidates that establishes a real connection to their job. We just signed a $700 billion check because of mistakes made by lots of wealthy, educated people. Who's going to step up and reestablish the trust? The Nobel Prize for economics will be announced October 13.