Political History is Made Tonight

WARNING: Only my son will make it to the end of this blog - out of respect for his father. I am ranting about politics....AGAIN. Sorry, but it's my blog.
I thank you in advance Alec.
Love
Dad


Hillary and Obama: Finally, it's over....or not...

Obama says he won (to his credit,he has earned and exceeded the number of delegates needed to win the nomination) or does Hillary have something up her sleeve? She wouldn't concede the nomination tonight and I thought she was pretty disrespectful of the process that elected her husband to two terms in the white house.

Hillary Clinton lost a competitive tough race yet she knew she was going to lose several months ago....why so much drama tonight?

And what's the deal with delegates, superdelegates and the whole electoral college garbage? Why don't we stack up the votes for each candidate and see who wins? My vote in Nevada (with only 5 electoral votes) would mean as much as one vote in Kalyfornia (with 55 electoral votes). I also prefer to spell Kalyfornia like Governor Schwarzenegger SAYS it.

We've even managed to complicate the voting process. The way it works now, a candidate could focus only on the large delegate states like California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, etc..and completely ignore the people in less populated states and win the presidential election. It doesn't make sense to me.

It's a raw deal that Al Gore had more votes in 2000 election than George Bush, but didn't win the electoral college. And I don't even like Al Gore but the numbers don't lie. In the 2000 election, more Americans wanted him to be president than George Bush - 543,000 more. But Gore had only 266 electoral votes to Bush's 271 (270 are needed to win). See why Florida with it's 25 electoral votes (now up to 27) was critical?

The electoral college (not named that initially) is part of the constitution of the United States and to change the constitution (ie eliminate the electoral college) would take, well, an act of congress and then some. As outdated as this method is, it will at least survive the rest of my lifetime on earth.

McCain? I have to vote for this guy. My wallet and head say I need to vote for him. He's boring. The guy probably takes a leak like 6 times a night and can't remember how to get out of his house in the morning but he's our guy. He looks like he is 100 years old. I seriously doubt he will have the stamina to hold up under the rigors of the office. I hope he picks a decent VP.

I like Obama as a person. He's very articulate (inside joke there) and would be a guy I'm postive I would enjoy spending 4 hours with playing a round of golf together. I just don't like his politics.

I'm thinking outside the box now....Wouldn't we would be better off with a sensible, average "Joe" businessman to be President than either of the choices the major parties are putting forth?

Seriously, "Joe" would try and balance the budget (does anybody even care about this in Washington?), cut wasteful spending (again, no one cares), drill for oil in Alaska (see you later enviromentalists, time to quit funding the people who hate us by buying their oil), tell the UN to leave (they are worthless), and to go kick some tail in the Middle East once and for all. It is only a matter of time until that crazy dude in Iran does something that will make us angry. I say enough with the sword fighting....bring out the nukes like Harry Truman did and get people's attention. Harry was a democrat by the way.

I'm old school. I fear that our country is slowly being dismantled, decentralized, and fragmented. Where is our patriotism? Our faith in God as a nation? The principles of our forebears who only wanted freedom and opportunity that America could provide? Now we have politician's who want to provide "good paying jobs" and "universal healthcare for all." These are great ideas but they can't be guaranteed in a capitalistic society. Here, you get what you earn. If we decide to be a socialist country, then doctors can earn what truck drivers earn and we can all live in the same sized houses and take public transportation to work AND have universal healthcare. That route extinguishes ambition. It's anti-American.

I don't have young kids anymore, but do grade school kids still say the Pledge of Allegiance and inlude the "under God" part? Do we hold our hands over our hearts when the national anthem is played? (I do) A lot of people don't even bother to take their hats off when this song is played. IT IS OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM. GET BEHIND IT.

Whoever gets elected President will have my support - 100%. The office is sacred. We need to make it an honorable job again. Too often we slam our leaders with jokes, cartoons, and other disrespectful things. Let's honor those who lead whether we agree with their policies or not....let's be American's first, honorable citizens second, hard workers, and then let's decide if we are republicans or democrats - that's the least important part of all.