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I have come to the realization that nothing I do on this blog will bring any additional people to the polls. Instead of preaching to the choir, it’s time to take actions into our own hands. There is still time for people to register and there is certainly plenty of time to call every person you know and ask them whether they’re registered to vote and are going to actually do it.

I’m not sure who wins on this but as far as I’m concerned we’re dealing with the least experienced candidate, versus the least fit. The Republicans who are on a continued assault on the American middle class, health insurance, education and other social services will happily take you for everything your worth as long as your stupid enough to vote for them.

Here’s another example that shows what a bunch of crooks and liars Fox News are. I wish that for once they would have been as critical with the information the government fed us as they were with that Mayor. The blond anchor even said at some point “that’s an ongoing investigation”….that’s just hillarious because it shows how incapable they are of their own opinion and how dictated everything at that network is.

The main notion that Fox and Friends is trying to get across is that as Mayor he has to be fully welcoming of the arrival of the president and I have to applaud him for standing up and saying NO to that argument.

I’m sure everyone is getting as sick as I am to even turn on the TV and see anything related to the primaries. Just like we somehow believe our Baseball Tournaments are “World” Series although the World isn’t competing, the media somehow thinks that perpetual coverage of the campaign will benefit anyone.

I think what many people that are forgetting currently, is that while are the talkign heads are debating every miniscule issue to death, the people of this land mostly just see snapshots. Very few people take the time to actually get educated on the situation and moreover the candidates. A lot of people I’m sure have also completely tuned out by now because the amount of pulp that is being spewed, stories of no value whatsoever, are filling the prime time TV slots.

Everyone is pointing fingers towards each other when it comes to taking the blame on why people are so uninterested by what’s going on. The bigger danger that many Democrats somehow seem to take very lightly, is the fact that althought politically they should be able to win this election easily, it’s John McCain who’s been doing the likeablity campaign. It’s these type of continued publica appearances that at some point make him seem like the likeable guy. Let’s not forget the main reason why George Bush II got elected because many people thought he was the kind of person they wanted to have a beer with. Of course there’s no connection there whatsoever when it comeso the qualitifications of being president, but irrelevant at this point since he’s already served a full 8 years.

While Hillary and Barack are hitting the campaign trail hard, John McCain is making one TV appearance after another, keeping him in the positive limelight, no matter what he says. Also people forget that if you’re not specifcally into politics or pay attention to what’s going on a permanent basis, then it’s very easy to get an image of a person that’s very different from reality. Imagine you’re a brick layer, you go to work every day and your main concerns are the weather, whether the boss is pulling in enough new jobs, etc. When you come home at night after a long hard day on the job site, you mentally tune out, shift into low gear and enjoy the rest of the evening, before it’s time to do the same thing again in the morning. Now I’m putting myself in just that position and if I were changing around the channels, why would I want to whitness more of the infighting of the Democrats, where John McCain is on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart cracking jokes about his own age.

Where many of McCain’s appearences may seem lame to certain people, I’m sure that many people give him credit for the fact that he’s trying to so hard to be likeable and even if he comes across goofy at times, it’s still not against his favor.

All in all what I’m getting at here is the fact that people have A.D.D. and don’t pay as much attention as most of us, so maybe it’s time to really get this damn show over in terms of the primaries and start socking it to McCain as he deserves.

It doesn’t get anymore clear than this.

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Let’s give it up for Keith Olberman who is tirelessly pointing out what really should be very obvious - We’re not winning and we’re ruining our Country economically with this war. World War II was over in 6 years and our involvement was even less than that. The invasion of Normandy which can be considered one of the large battles in modern times, was a logistical nightmare and cost thousands upon thousands of soldiers their lives.

Is anything either of the Democratic Presidential Hopefuls says binding? Not at all. Do either of the candidates have any records pushing for the topics they now stand behind so strongly? Also negative. Let us be very clear on what’s going on here. It’s called sweet talk. Not straight-talk, not genuine-talk - but sweet talk. The story you give your Mom when you’re trying to go out again on a Friday night though she’s skeptical. “Of course I’ll be home before 1:00AM, no I won’t drink any alcohol, of course I won’t smoke pot Mom!” We’ve all been there - or the most of us I would say. This is exactly what we’re currently seeing with the Democratic Candidates. Hillary seems to be willing to say anything that will advance her cause.

When it comes to pulling our troops out of Iraq - she says yes to everything. Will you pull out our troops when you become President? “Yes!” - will you leave troops in the country? “Yes!” Will we have to keep a certain contigent of troops there to protect American interests? “Yes”. I would love to be the person asking the questions here because I would follow up with “Can you define what American interests are?” and secondly, “how can you claim that you’re going to pull our troops out of the country where we’re building the largest US embassy in the world there?”.

Of course to neither of the questions would we receive a straight up answer, because Politicians are trained not to answer questions. The reason for this is the fact that straight answers would reveal too much of the truth. The discrepancy between what Politicians say and what’s really going on is usually very stark. The feeling that I’m getting here is that neither of them are really going to do what they say, and there isn’t a thing we can about it. It’s not like Candidates have to fill out a form with all the points they plan to address and we can reference that at a later point in time. Instead what we get is the usual sweat talk that’s starting to piss me off more and more as the days go on.

I was listening to the Bill Press radio show this morning and either he or someone else said something that I believe to be true for myself. When the Primary Campaigns started, the notion I got from the people I spoke to was that any Democratic Candidate would suffice. Now however myself and many others feel slightly different about that. The reason in my case is the fact that the candidates that spoke the most truth, aren’t in the race anymore. What’s more, the candidates remaining aren’t speaking about any truly problematic issues. What about the invasion of privacy? What about the fact that our military is in shambles? Why isn’t the blackwater issue more of a topic? Because those are issues that you can’t get a majority of people behind you. They are controversial issues and they require someone to take a hard stance - a stance that most presidential candidates aren’t willing to take at this point because I’m sure that pollsters are telling them not to.

To sum it up I think it’s safe to say that many people are looking at the Primaries and are thinking that we’re being fooled, once again.

It’s March 10 in a presidential campaign that promises to go on much longer than anyone needs or cares for. With McCain as the Republican nominee we have nothing else to look for besides the actual Presidential campaign. When the primaries began, I was of the opinion that any candidate will be an improvement on what we currently have in place with George W. Bush and realistically that hasn’t changed much. What if the Democrats lose though? That’s the question that’s going on in my head.

It’s hard to find any measures where the Democrats have been decisive since the successful campaign of 2004. Instead what we find is that Obama and Clinton are starting to waste their energy on each other. If Hillary really only had the best in store for the country, she wouldn’t consider redoing the primaries in Florida. When some of the states held their primaries early, knowing that the delegate count wouldn’t be taken into consideration for the overall election I don’t recall Hillary crying for a recount. At the time it was a nice opportunity for her to show a fake win, which is what the Florida primary election ended up being since Obama didn’t even campaign in that state.

I’ve heard the argument on various websites and radio shows, which is that instead of attacking each other, the Democratic candidates should focus their attention on John McCain. The democratic party needs to unite and not show how it can devour itself. Hillary Clinton then said a few days ago that John McCain has a lifetime of experience, just as she does and that Obama only had a speech. Unless I’m not understanding the gist of this comment I think it means that both Clinton and McCain have the experience needed and Obama doesn’t. So that means that Hillary would be OK with McCain being president since he has the experience needed. I thought she only wanted the best for the country? Or is it all about her? I think the answer to this question is obvious. The candidates are in a race to win and unfortunately what will happen is that people will get sick of the democrats before the actual Presidential campaign. Rarely has there been such opportunity to take over the steering wheel from an incapable driver yet I fear that this might not happen out of whatever reason.

I seriously have to debate whether I’m going to stay in this country if we get Bush 3.0 (McCain). I’m very concerned about the fact that neither of the current Democratic candidates are spending a lot of time talking about all the measures that have to be reversed. From the Partiot Act, to the Military Commissions Act, various Tax cuts. Realistically the next President has to be spend years just repealing everything that was brought upon this country. Instead, Clinton is spending her time trying to discredit Obama.

If there’s still a need..here you go