If you have not watch the Jib Jab cartoon it is a must see.  Go to www.jibjab.com and click on “Time For Some Campaignin”.  Then come back and finish reading this blog.

Satire is always difficult for people to understand, we see this all the time even outside of politics.  Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” is not a patriotic song, and yet it gets played every Fourth of July when the fireworks go off.  Billy Idol’s “White Wedding” is not a celebration of marriage, yet it gets played all the time at weddings.

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Popularity: 5% [?]

I have been asked to envision what an Obama presidency would look like and to give my comment on that.  Now, for those of you new to reading my column you may not be aware of this but I am a fairly loyal Republican and I love John McCain.  In fact, John McCain is my number one friend on my myspace account even ahead of my wife (this is a short term thing I promise).
 
Of course, to envision an Obama presidency would mean that I must envision failure on my part to elect my President.  I want you to think about asking the Greeks to envision what life would be like if the Trojans had actually won the Trojan war?  Continue Reading

Popularity: 11% [?]

I want to start this off by saying why I am for John McCain, while I would love all of you to vote for Mr. McCain the purpose of this blog is not to convert you.  While I disagree with Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama I am not going to say that they would be bad for America or that they somehow have a hidden secret evil agenda as some are prone to do.  The fact is we really have no idea what is going to happen and what type of leader we are going to need.  I remember in 1992 thinking that the US economy was going to crash and burn because of Clinton’s Family Medial Leave Act and because of the higher taxes. Continue Reading

Popularity: 4% [?]

Iowa and New Hampshire have come and gone, and we have had two completely different results.  Mike Huckabee and Barak Obama won the first round; John McCain and Hillary Clinton won the second. What do these results mean to? To me? Voting is a privilege that far too many Americans do not take advantage of, partly because they do not see how it affects their daily lives, and to some degree they are right.

It is highly doubtful that I will vote for Senator Clinton. If she becomes President, my life and, quite honestly, most people’s lives, are not going to change that much.  Had Al Gore been elected in 2000, we probably would still be in some type of war in Iraq and terrorists would have still attacked us on September 11th.  The mortgage crisis would still be happening and the stock market would still be going down.

It would seem that I am making an argument against voting, which I am not.  While your daily life will probably not change overnight regardless of who becomes President, the long-term affects of a President are extremely important.  Ronald Reagan believed that the Soviet Union was the Evil Empire; it was not an empire that we could co-exist with or something that we should  just accept as a reality; it had to be defeated.  Looking back at history, it is obvious that Reagan was right, yet at the time, not everyone believed this to be true.  Many people believed that containing the Soviet Union was the best we could hope for. Reagan believed we could eliminate it and that is what we did.

Ideas are important. The President is important. If you are in an early primary state, make sure you vote in that primary.  When you vote, vote for someone that you believe in. They do not have to agree with you on every issue. Pick the issues most important to you and go with those. The last thing I want to see is someone vote for a candidate because of a negative commercial, misleading story or because of media-based momentum.  Pick what is important to you and stay with it. Like the Bible says, while beauty and charm are misleading and do not last long, character on the other hand lasts a lifetime.

Popularity: 6% [?]