This is Presidential Primary Season. You are probably voting for the candidate that has the best track record and experience to improve our country or the one that has mapped out a specific plan that matches your desires and dreams for our country.
Some people are voting based on the most insane reasons. Some will vote for Hillary because she’s a woman and others will vote for Obama because he is black. What has this got to do with which candidate would make a better president? A story from the TV Show “The View”, had Whoopi Goldberg asking the others on the show if they would vote for Hillary if she wasn’t a woman. Now first of all, other than the fact that Chelsea Clinton exists, there isn’t much proof that Hillary is a woman. In that family it always seemed as if there were two alpha males competing for head of the country. When Bill Clinton said “ I did not have sex with that woman”, I was kind of hoping he was talking about Hillary. But, on the show, one of the other hosts said that if Hillary were not a woman she would vote for Obama, but she is supporting Hillary because she is a woman. What are you thinking? Voting for Hillary because she is a woman is sexist, and voting for Obama because he is black is racist. Just when I think we have made some small strides in improving on racism and sexism, idiots speak and it all vanishes.
I sometimes wonder how women could even have any respect for Hillary. Bill Clinton participated in some highly publicized extra marital affairs, and yet she thinks so little of herself that she still stays with him. The upside for me if the Clintons win would be seeing what Bill Clinton would do in the White House. Will he be Hillary’s version of Billy Carter, the embarrassing family member that gets drunk at the family parties and then makes such an ass of himself that you wish you could disown him, or will he find new and interesting ways to utilize the Lincoln Bedroom?
On the other hand, you have Barack Obama making a major showing in the primaries so far. The man is an eloquent speaker, and with the use of cheerleaders stationed around him when he speaks, gets the crowds worked into a frenzy of cheering fans shouting for “Change”. But if you ask any of his supporters what proof or track record he has for accomplishing what he says he can, you are usually left looking at the poor goof with his mouth hanging open and nothing to say. Change for the sake of change isn’t always a good thing, but most people like the concept. It’s the same reason that the backup quarterback is always the most popular player for the Chicago Bears. Fans think he has to be better than the starter.
The republicans look like they have already made their decision, with John McCain pulling away in the delegate count. It was already a strange year for republicans, due to the backlash in the country against the war in Iraq; it appears that several potentially viable candidates shied away from running. Conventional wisdom is that they would wait while the Democrats screwed things up again for the next four years before making their run for office.
With the poor choices available in the Democratic Party, even a weak Republican candidate like John McCain makes the most sense. He has the necessary experience and the right ideas on how to best protect Americans from terrorists as well as the big government, socialist ideas of the Democrats. But the next step is still up to us, as we need to give him a better congress with which to work.