here's a different way to look at the "election"

People need to stop listening to the "issues" and concentrate on the men themselves.

How can I say that? Simple - has any president, ever, lived up to their campaign promises?

Nope.

So, look at the men and see which one you trust. Pretty simple.

John McCain was legacied into the US Naval Acadamy (his father and grandfather were both admirals), he graduated 895th out of a class of 899. He was such a Mavericky pilot that if today's Naval standards were applied then, he would have been grounded for his stupid antics.

Obama was raised by a single mom, sometimes eating food bought with food stamps. He worked his ass off to get scholarships to very good schools and did a great job there, too.

Which one sounds like a better leader who can relate to the "common man"?

The guy who has seven houses and thirteen cars? Or the guy who shares one hybrid vehicle with his wife?

One comment on their policy claims: who do you like - the guy who is willing to raise his own taxes or the guy who is going to give himself (and his ultra-rich wife's family) a tax break?

Trickle-down economics didn't work the first time, either.

I'm back, baby!

After a self-imposed hiatus, I am back and hopefully better than ever. We'll get things started up slowly, with some simple posts and see how things are rolling before I start swinging away with the heavy ammunition (Mmmmm...mixed metaphors...yummy!) and get to the things that are really weighing on my mind.

I will do my best from here on out to try and post at least one book review per month and hope to create a couple of recurring weekly entries - one will almost definitely be 'This Week's Sign of the Impending Apocolypse'.

That having been said, here is a cute little story; we were discussing poetry in a Literature class I am taking this semester and the professor had us take five minutes to see if we could come up with a time-relavent haiku. Ask and ye shall receive:

A hockey mom

Does not a vice-president make

Go home governor

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