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Do I have to vote?
All the presidential candidates for 2008 suck. Every one of them. There are a few I wouldn’t mind having in office, but that’s a pretty depressed way to choose a candidate to represent me. But I guess that’s contemporary American democracy for you.
The other day, while I was doing a little research on Jean Shepherd, I came across some great political cartoons archived in Time Magainze. I think I liked them because they all played on the fact that this election has some pretty slim pickin’s.
Not bad. Really, I’m not motivated to vote for any one of these losers. Getting Gore back would pretty much rock, but instead the only latecomer we’re going to have this year is going to be Bloomberg. I’d be tempted to vote for him if he has the balls to run as independent, just to show that I hate the electoral college. But if Huckabee is still going strong in the polls, then I won’t dick around. I’ll vote for Obama like a good little Democrat.
Of course, since I’m making a blog entry about politics, it’s mandated that I mention Ron Paul. Otherwise I’d lose my internet card. Ron Paul is a crackpot Constitutionalist douchebag whose entire platform is just saying “No” to everything. To everything! No to war is good, but no to financial aid for education is very, very bad. OK, you’re right, it wasn’t in the Constitution, but that argument is eerily like “but it ain’t in the Bible!” to my ears. Times change, and literature is literature, regardless of whether people choose to live and die by the document immortalizing it.
Honestly, despite all the antics on Digg to get Ron Paul attention, he’s doomed to obscurity as Howard Dean 2.0. Remember in 2004, how galvanized the entire internet was to get that guy in office? Then actual voting took place, and nobody got off their ass to vote for him? Yeah. Kind of happened in Iowa already, I guess. Just read some of the things Ron Paul has to say.
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders’ political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. Certainly the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government’s hostility to religion.
I just blinked a lot when I read that. I couldn’t even get angry. It’s just so bizarrely inaccurate that it seems I should focus more on checking whether gravity still exists than trying to correct this deranged old man. I mean, if a person can come to believe this, I do honestly question whether the laws of physics will hold until the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November this year.
Oh, well. Obama isn’t such a loser, I guess.
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