Politics, Schmolitics

First off, I would like to preface this entire blog by saying I am completely ignorant when it comes to politics. Red vs blue, democrat vs republican, elephant vs donkey... I have almost no idea what these things mean and represent. Yes, I know, shake your head in disgust. I have failed as an American citizen, but hey, at least I acknowledge my ignorance. (Big ups to Socrates)

Now, moving on, I've been sucked into the presidential election. I don't follow it religiously, or stand up and applaud after any word or phrase is said, or cry whenever there is a shot of someone else crying on TV, but I'm definitely more involved than I have ever been before. I almost watched all of the democratic national convention, watched Obama's speech later on Youtube, and I currently just finished watching McCain's speech.

Honestly, this whole thing seems like a junior high student council election just placed on the biggest of stages under the brightest of lights. I'm not saying the candidates are mere children; rather, they are great men who deserve the nominations they earned. My point was that the election seems just like a popularity contest, which essentially it is since we, the people, vote for who we think will be best as president. "I will do this... I will do that," say the candidates. How can I be so sure? I must say, however, I do love the play on words that the candidates use against each other, for example Palin said something to the effect of, "Some people use 'change' to promote their careers, while John McCain uses his career to promote 'change.'"

Quick side note: Senator Palin looks kinda like Lynne Spears (mother of Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears), and hey, both their teenage daughters are pregnant. Coincidence? I think not. But more of a lookalike is Tina Fey from Saturday Night Live. Wind back the hands of time for Palin or hit the fast forward button on Tina Fey and change the hair and you got an exact duplicate.

But anyways, I will continue to keep up with politics as much as I can. I honestly don't know how I feel about each candidate yet, more reading and research has to be done by me to become better informed.

In the meantime, hope ya'll enjoy this music (video) by this fella named A.P.T. I wish I knew how to imbed a Youtube video on here directly, but I don't think that's possible. So, in the meantime, here is the link. It's a piece about Obama set to Lil Wayne's "A Milli."

Enjoy!

-jdv