Sunday, May 4, 2008

Divided We Fall?

In response to Jennasa18's blog:
http://jennasa18onpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/04/divided-democrats.html

First of all, let me just start off by stating that I really liked where you were headed with this one Jenna. I think that focusing on the division in the Democratic party is a worthwhile venture. Where I do have to disagree, however, is that this divisive battle between Obamarama and Mrs. "Kill Bill" Hil is in fact, trivial.

As always I would have to refer back to some of my previous posts on how politics today are more like a game of charades than they ever have been before. This whole hype between the two of them would have the average "unenlightened" American believe that all this commotion IS the actual election. I'll bet anyone $38 (because that's what it costs to fill up my tank with gas) that the actual Presidential race itself gets lets publicity and hype than this Democratic runoff has.

Now don't get me wrong ya'll, I'm not one of those completely cynical guys who is suspicious of everything and has no trust in elected officials at all. I do know that they can change some things and there are things that I wish could be fixed, but if history has only taught us one thing, it sure is not to believe everything a politician does or says.

This whole bickering between Barack and Hil IS, as you say, making the Republican party look a lot more under control. Now whether the Democratic nominees would do a better job than Old Man McCain, that's still up for debate. I think with any of them its just a shot in the dark and hope you don't miss. When it gets right down to it, we don't vote for the candidate who will do the most good, we just have to pick the one that will do the least damage!

Let them go at each other's throats I say! They're just acting anyways. I'm sure they both meet up secretly sometimes at 3am and play basketball and drink Boilermakers when nobody is looking. If you really look at all 3 remaining candidates and scrutinize where they stand, you will actually see that they REALLY really really do not differ a whole lot. They simply are good at taking the nominal little trivial differences that there are and blow them up a hundred fold. Its all just a game of charades Jenna. Don't let the back-biting and low blows fool ya. I can assure you that the Democratic party is not losing any substantial voting demographic as a result of this rift. Come November, all the silent Republicans will come out of the woodwork to vote, and all the people stirred up by the publicity on the Democratic race will show up to vote, and this time around, its going to be close. So lets all just pick the one we believe will not dig us further in the hole we're already in and do our civic duty to vote. I'll even bet ya that a Democrat wins, because lets face it, I need to fill up my gas tank.