With all of the dooms-day talk in the press about recessions and war and so forth, I want to tell you why I am optimistic about our country at the moment.
In every presidential election since I have been old enough to vote, my voting thought process has always been: "Who sucks the least". This was especially true in the last Bush/Kerry election. I remember thinking: "is this all we can come up with"?
But this year is different, I actually like most of the candidates that are still in play (with the exception of Huckabee). I would be happy with any of these 4 (in order of preference):
Obama
McCain
Hillary
Romney
My main criteria, coming after Bush, is that I want a smart president. Ideology aside all 4 of these contenders are very smart and talented people.
Of these four, my favorite (by an increasing margin) is Obama.
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Given these 4 choices, as far as I'm concerned, it's still a case of "Who sucks the least". They are all cut from the same cloth, and none of them will make any significant changes to the status quo. Remember all the changes that were going to happen when the Democrats took over Congress in '06? Personally, I didn't notice a difference. In the coming years, I fully expect more war, more devaluation of the US dollar (aka inflation), an increasing national debt, a further push towards a North American Union, more liberties being taken away, and more socialism (all the while going on-and-on about same-sex marriage, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and prayer in schools). Not to be a downer, but this country is being driven into the ground and is going the way of the former USSR. Rich people can make money in any economy, the poor are taken care of by the government, but the rest of us are fucked. The middle class is being systematically eliminated.
Of the candidates that actually had anything different to say (Mike Gravel, Ron Paul, and even John Edwards), only Ron Paul is even still a remote possibility. Despite the fact that he is by far the most well spoken candidate I've seen, I don't think he can beat out the virtual major media blackout that's been levied against him. He's the ONLY one that I've seen that actually says what he believes, has actual progressive ideas as opposed to just popular sound bites, and doesn't pander to whoever the audience is. IOW he is a principled candidate and the establishment will NOT let him be elected at any cost. Gee, I saw on the TV that Obama is black, Hillary is a woman who can cry when she wants to, McCain is a war hero, Romney is a successful business man, and Ron Paul is just some crazy guy that keeps spouting off about some god-damned piece of paper called the Constitution. Yea, I'm bitter!
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