2008 politics

I am finding the presidential race quite fascinating. Hillary, who everyone swore was a shoo-in for the Iowa Caucus landed in third place and the so-called GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani, was placed in a dismal sixth place.

Barak Obama defied the odds and won the Democratic caucus and Mike Huckabee pulled out an impressive win for the GOP as well.

The fight to be our 44th president has been going on for years. I believe it was mainly fueled by George W. Bush's plans and positions on Iraq and other foreign policies. It seems that America is ready for 'change'. (At least that's what Obama tells us.)

Americans are ready for a new direction being that a large percentage of us are not happy with the direction this country is going on.

In steps in those that are trying to persuade us that THEY are the ones who can implement change:

1. Hillary Clinton - she is overwhelmingly riding on the coattails of her husband Bill Clinton, who is arguably the most popular Democrat on this planet today. I don't trust her because she comes off as fake and seems to switch views the way the wind switches direction. Besides that, I don't think Americans as a whole want to see a monarchy or hierchary (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton). No more BUSHES or CLINTONS in the White House, please!!! If Hillary does get elected, that means we would have had over 20 years of Bushes and Clintons running America. The first Bush was elected in 1988. We really can't have that.

2. Barak Obama - This guy became really popular through ONE speech at the Democratic National Convention some years back. And now he is riding the waves of said popularity that seems to be growing and growing. It certainly doesn't help that Oprah was campaigning right alongside of him. IMHO, this guy does not have enough experience. Granted, he is refreshing, but the fact that he doesn't feel that he should respect the United States flag certainly doesn't sit well with me. He has much to learn. I believe in a couple of years he will have what it takes to be President. But for now, he really is inexperienced, as evidenced by certain remarks he came under intense scrutiny for: like negotiating with our enemies and such.

3. John Edwards - This Breck girl lost my respect when he paid $400 for a haircut. Sorry, but I can't relate to that. I barely want to pay the $150 for my kinky twists. And he is a socialist. I don't care for socialists.

4. Mike Huckabee - This Baptist minister certainly came out of nowhere to surpass the leads of Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. He is upfront about his Christian faith and not afraid to display it. But unfortunately, that is a major turn-off for some people and it could very well cost him the nomination. Democrats, however, would love for him to get the GOP nod because they say he is the most beatable guy on the GOPs side. We will see. I don’t agree with Huckabee’s stance on immigration at all.

5. Mitt Romney – The GOPs John Kerry. He is the epitome of a flip flopper. It started with him claiming that he hunted rodents. He didn’t. He then said that his dad marched with MLK Jr. during the civil rights era. After it was proved that it wasn’t true, he changed it up and said FIGURATIVELY his dad marched with Martin Luther King. Too late, Mitt. You are not trustworthy and I don’t think anyone believes what comes out of your mouth. It didn’t help that he had a company who hired illegal aliens working on his estate either.

6. Rudy Giuliani – A noun. A verb. And 9/11. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden accurately summed up the words that typically come out of Rudy G’s mouth. Every other sentence Rudy utters focuses on the fact that he was mayor of New York on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Yes Rudy: we know you were downtown on that fateful day. After all, City Hall is just blocks from the WTC site. Yes Rudy, we know you offered soothing words to a city and a nation scared and under siege. Yes sir, we recall when Oprah dubbed you America’s mayor. That was then. This is now. We also recall how you openly skipped out on your wife and used tax dollars to get her police escorts and stuff. We recall how friendly and close you were to former NYC police commissioner Bernard Kerik, not knowing he was corrupt and a cheater just like you (or maybe you did know.) Your closeness was evidenced by you offering him as a nominee as head of Homeland Security to President Bush. And don’t think for one minute that Republicans like you. Some actually think you would do well against terrorists, but we haven’t forgotten just how liberal you are. You are pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage and even though you hilariously stated that Mitt Romney had a ‘sanctuary mansion’, New York City was known as a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants for years.

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Tsk, tsk….so many choices, so MUCH TIME as the caucuses are being held earlier then they ever were. It really is all about picking the less of the many evils that are running to become our next President.

With Hillary and her cackling and speaking in southern accents just to pander and appease a crowd, to Rudy’s taking a phone call from his wife while addressing the NRA (an organization he vehemently fought against as mayor), to Mitt and his faux paus and the rest of them……they certainly don’t give us great choices….

We still got until November though. It’s only January…..