You know, I was going to write something about the war in Iraq, or maybe politics, or how amazing it is that most people believe they have half a clue about either when, in fact, they don't, but I think now that I won't. I mean, just because you watch a little CNN or read a few newspaper articles, trolled the internet or caught some professorial tirade in a humanities class, or if you've done all of the above, it doesn't mean you know what you're talking about. And I know I'm in that category, so why bother expressing an opinion tainted by ignorance (free of the burden of knowledge, untainted by intelligence)? I mean, after all, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat or a Greenie, is pretty irrelevant to the war in Iraq. Only a dolt would believe that anyone really supports the war anymore. I mean, we ALL "support the troops," and we all want them to come home, so we agree on that. And I'm pretty sure that everyone with an I.Q. higher than your average fence post understands that we can't just pull everyone out and expect a better world, so we all pretty much agree on that. All we're really arguing about is what the criteria are for a stable Iraq. I mean, no one with an ounce of intelligence is going to pull troops until that objective is reached. The annoying thing is that you never really hear people talking about what a stable Iraq looks like... Shame on us all for ignoring the one issue we really ought to be discussing.
Meanwhile, we've got this real doozy of a presidential election coming up and I'm so excited I just might not vote. On one hand you've got John McCain, one of the most left-leaning Republicans out there, and on the other hand the only two democrats in the country that could actually lose. Seriously, if you'd told me a year ago that the Democrats might lose the election, I'd have laughed in our ignorant face. Today, that ignorance looks a lot like prophesy. Hillary Clinton may be the most hated woman in America, and the most loved. But people will vote for anyone to keep her from the Whitehouse. And the thought of having Bill Clinton for First Husband... scary. But the other option, Barrack Hussein Obama, isn't any better. Yes, he's wildly popular with people who don't listen very carefully to what he's saying, but he's getting shredded by pundits even before he gets the party nomination, and the gloves haven't even come off yet. He calls himself Christian, but his version of Jesus is skewed far from what most evangelicals believe and his pastor has already offended pretty much all of America. He connects well with his message of hope, but has no actual ability to deliver on his promises. And he a black man with the middle name of Hussein. Don't think that will be ignored. (It should be ignored, but let's be honest, if everything Democrats say about America is true--we have problems with religion and racism--it won't be.) So we've got the three lamest ducks anyone's seen in a long time vying for the right to become the President of the United States of America. How did it come to this?
