Digressive Ramblings

This will be a political RANT, feel free to ignore if you don't care what I think and what makes me angry, politics wise.  I hate the primaires this year. Like more than any other year. It has been so annoying and here's why: I have a bunch of facebook friends that are Ron Paul disciples. I say disciples because they aren't supporters. They are people who believe he is the savior of the American government. They truly believe that the US is right at the point of crumbling a la ancient greek and roman governments and that Ron Paul is going to be able to prevent that if he's president. They don't believe he can't win... which brings me to my next point. A lot of people have been saying this year that electability doesn't matter. I don't know where they get that idea. If they all think Obama is the worst president ever (more on that) then their goal should be to present a candidate that the general population would feel good about, one that would be a...

So as many of you know, I like to think I march to the beat of my own drum politically. If anyone looked at my ballot yesterday they would have most likely scratched their heads. There were “conservative” votes, “liberal” vote and votes for my Dad, who in my opinion is ALWAYS the obvious choice if you want something done right. I personally like to consider myself a Libertarian , and loved the idea of Bob Barr becoming President, but I know that just wasn’t in the cards. Anyway I wanted to share why I support President Elect Barrack Obama. Now I don’t completely agree with him and his views, I would say that he represents me only about 50% of the time but there are a few things that tell me he is the right man for the job right now. I think everyone can agree that the last 4-8 years (depending on how dramatic you would like to be) were not the best in America’s grand history, I wouldn’t say they were the worst, I don’t think we can begin to understand the strife and struggles in the ...