Well, the entire point of this is really just to allow me a chance to vent some of the opinions that I torture my wife with every night. A lot of this may involve politics because I'm obsessed with the 2008 presidential campaign. I study it and think about it constantly. Keep in mind, I don't feel any allegiance to any particular candidate on either side. I just enjoy watching the process, the spin so to speak, and I'm incredibly entertained by the stunts these people will pull to get elected and the blunders they make along the way. For instance, McCain saying that he would follow bin Laden to the gates of Hell, then grinning like a jackass eating briars at the audience. I also loved Tommy Tancredo, Mike Huckabee, and Sam Brownback's sheepish raising of their hands to prove that they didn't believe in evolution. All three looked around the room first in the hopes that there would be others. It becomes an addiction, and it is infinitely more fascinating than anything else on television these days. Hunter Thompson said that it was "better than sex," and while I don't necessarily agree with that, I see where it could be, especially if one was an aging drug addict like Thompson was when we wrote that.
My real political frustration lies in the fact that I'm an openminded independent in a red state filled with die-hard conservatives, most of whom are uninformed. That being said, I'm not a huge fan of liberals either, at least not the type that already have Obama or Hillary bumber stickers on their cars. How in the hell could they have already made their minds up about something like this?
We are a dying breed, and we learn to suffer silently as those around us rave against Harry Reid for saying that the Iraq War is lost (admittedly, the stupidest thing that man ever did) or call Nancy Pelosi a "stupid fucking whore," when they had never heard of the woman or any of her policies prior to her being elected Speaker of the House. All they know is that Bush doesn't want them to like her and they gladly comply.
