Obama for President

I'm seriously amazed by the fact that I actually want to vote for this guy. The stress read into that sentence should be on the vote part, not on the this guy part. I haven't voted in a long time, mostly because I don't believe the rhetoric that "if you don't vote you can't complain".

Let me state my views on that.

If I offer you either a walnut cookie, or a pecan cookie, but you don't like nuts in your cookies, is that a choice? If I turn down both cookies, and then state that I would like to eat a cookie, if only there were cookies without nuts in them, "if you don't eat a cookie you can't complain" isn't a logical response. I don't like cookies with nuts in them, but you just keep offering them to me. You won't let me make my own cookie; you price the cooking equipment way too high, and every time a new, decent cook that might make decent cookies tries to get into the kitchen, you eviscerate them, making being a cookie chef an almost repugnant idea for decent cooks.

Hence, we get nuts in our cookies, and told we're un-American and un-Democratic when we complain and don't eat.

So, for the longest time, I haven't voted. I don't think I've voted since the first Clinton-Gore run. Haven't felt the desire, truthfully... I felt like I'd just be eating nuts.

Not with Obama, though.

Maybe it's just the fact that the establishment is so fucking scared of this guy, but they can't do anything blatant to him, because it'd be so freaking obvious. It makes him seem like a chef that might just be able to get most of the nuts out of the cookies. I've read his policies, and they appeal to me. There's a lot more to them than just sound bites, too... it honestly seems like this guy has some decent plans.

We'll see if he gets elected. I think it'd rock. Then we'll see if he gets assassinated, and the killing blamed on Islamic terrorists. I wouldn't put it past the PTB.