It's Rare

I know it is incredibly rare that I say anything about politics... as a whole the subject is overdone. Especially now- as with the self centered American Media, no one is talking about anything else. However, there are times when I have to say something, like now.

We have a very interesting group of people running for the office of president, don't we? Now I am not going to get off on some diatribe here, but let me get a few things out.

Senator John McCain is just too fucking old... Beyond the fact that he is going to be as much a war monger as Bush- even if he does carry on about it with a softer voice... But he so OLD. Not that he isn't sharp or on his game- but fuck man, how can someone that old represent ME? He's geriatric. He was alive during WWII! He was a teenager when Einstein was warning about the destructive power of the Nuclear Bomb! Christ on Crutches! He was in the same war as Elvis Presley- you know, when Elvis was young and yummy?
As far as his know how and "experience" I can't say much for how he can manage the infrastructure of our country. Wanna know why? Have you SEEN the fucking roads in Phoenix? I bet Pima Road is STILL under construction. Has been since I was a kid. So has Tatum Blvd where I remember driving past his election signs in high school. It seems that once they finally pull the bulldozers off the north end of the street, they run them right back down to the south end and start digging holes all over again. Now I don't know what that costs- but I'm sure it's an assload. One day, (about 7 year ago) we had driven through the intersection of 75th ave and northern. Huge hole in the middle of the road. A few days later, they were paving it over and it was fixed. We went to Vegas for the weekend and I shit you not, when we came back four days later, that freshly paved intersection had a hole in the middle again. I should like to think it is atypical, but it's not. I wonder how expensive that is... wanna try and imagine that on a national scale on an economy that is already weak?

Senator Clinton... If she cries she is called soft and seen too womanly, the rest of the time she is seen as an ice queen, and a cold hard bitch. If I wanted to be president- I would be a bit of a bitch too... Just as a woman I would have to be rough to live through half of th shit she has, much less her husband splatting spooge on some others woman's dress in his office- which just HAPPENS to be the oval office. Having a vagina and aIl have to commend her on all of her efforts and work. She stood by him, when he fucked up- she was right there, chin up and proud- even though you know she probably wanted to beat the shit out of him. All her work in health care, etc, and her work in the senate- good on her.

Senator Obama... now I don't have much to say about the man. He is highly intelligent and articulate. I don't think he knows shit about how to run a country., and I think if he made it to the white house it is something that would be exploited by governments and our own politicians alike, but that is not to say he wouldn't be able to do a good job.... Just not sure the white house is the best place to do on the job government training. I would like to believe he would stand up for the littleguy, and blah blah blah that he promises- but saying you'll jump the grand canyon, and then actually making the jump once you're on the ramp are two different things.

Not to harp the Obama issue too hard... but I did see something that caught my eye about the double standard and sexism in this country that no one wants to talk about... If a young woman with only two years of experience in the U.S. Senate wanted to run for President... how far would she get? Seriously- let's be pragmatic. A woman in her mid 40's announces her candidacy with only two years in public office, and wants to run the country... diplomacy, military, finances, education... With only two years of public service behind her resume. Does she make it nationally? This is nothing about Senator Clinton being a woman- but more about Barrack being a man. Did his campaign get going more on the novelty of a black man running for office, and then picked up steam? Would it be different for a relatively inexperienced black woman? If Barrack was white, or a woman where would he be, based on his resume only?

Discuss...