Politics: Part One

Disclaimer: I am neither Republican nor Democrat, and I hate illogical, close-minded politics. So here is my $0.18 worth... 

I think McCain is too old... not because of the naive argument that "he might die" but because he doesn't grasp the potential of modern technology in small things like... and this is just off the top of my head... alternative energy sources. "Drill, baby, drill" is the policy that reflects the generation-gap between he and I. Drilling is not a long-term solution and so instead of going to war with the Arabs over a commodity, we should work towards something more advanced. Gasoline is old technology.

Palin is really hot, and it is awkward to see her and McCain together on television. I mean REALLY AWKWARD. I think most of the media's attacks on her are completely UNjustified. However, I do think it's a terrible idea for the Republican Party to keep her (and other PR spokespeople) away from interviews. It's sending the wrong message.

I look at families a lot to determine candidate authenticity, and unfortunately O'Bama wins the battle here. I say unfortunately because it's McCain that is running on personality, not O'Bama. If you watched the conventions, you saw Barack's children on stage with their mother, and how they reacted to seeing him on the video monitor. I don't care who you are, you can't train a 6-year old girl to hog the microphone THAT well and you can't train her to say "I love you daddy" and make it look unrehearsed, unless it is. That was an authentic moment.

Unfortunately again, it's McCain's campaign that is playing the "family values" card, with Palin's small-town virtues being the Ace in the deck. But she has a 17-yr old daughter that's pregnant., and where I come from, that kind of thing only happens either when there is non-consensual activity involved, or when the children do not have a moral foundation. Further, with an infant baby (Down syndrome is irrelevant) and 4 other kids, a really good mother with strong family values should not be throwing herself into the hate-hate relationship that is political media. I think she should stay in the lower tiers of government until her household is a little... emptier, so that she can properly raise her children with the small-town ethics that the campaign is asserting.

More to come soon, I have to get to a meeting...