Pol-i-tics-me-off

i guess this might just be the last thing that anyone really wants to hear about right now. politics, just saying the word almost causes my gag reflex to go off. i suppose the real reason i dislike this whole bash-the-other-guy- (or girl) before- they-bash-you-and-if-they-bash-you-make-sure-you-bash-back-harder way of electing our countries' leaders is because, well, it sucks! i hate it. i am sure this goes back as far as when mankind started electing officials people to any kind of position. the thing i just don't get is why we think that it is the best way to show who is better. somehow, somewhere we got away (or maybe we were never there) from the idea that someone should tells us how qualified they are by telling us, not by telling us how unqualified the other person is. or by just generally trashing their character. 

i am really anger about this years presidential race. this is how you know it is america: all the best choices for president were pushed out of the limelight by... i am just going to say it. they were push out of the limelight by "typical black guy", "ugly and anger female", and "about-to-died-because-of-some-huge-cheek-problem old guy". in america, we don't want the best. we want the most controversial or the ones that sell the most newspapers or the bring the most hits on the web. 

i am really thinking of not voting this year. partly because i don't think either choose is a good, and partly because i enjoy the shock i get from people i know. i have heard every argument for why i should vote. there is the "you're a christian and you need to vote for the christian candidate". maybe mccain and palin are christians and maybe they got "A's" in high-school acting class. i just hate jumping on board the "christian" bandwagon. if i see one more of my friends on facebook add the "fan of palin" thing i am going to throw up! then, of course, there is the "people died so that you could vote" argument. yeah but didn't they die so that i had a choice.

so i am not sure what i am going to do. 

i have a dream (have i heard that somewhere before?) that one day america will look at the candidates, not for the color of their skin or their gender or their age, but for what the can actually do for america.

i did vote, just so you know

Doug