On to the main event (finally)

I find it ironic that the party labeled as the most disorganized was able to wrap up their primary months before the other party. Barack Obama has finally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination; at the start of the primaries I was all for Obama (meaning all for him to lose in the general election) but after all the information on Obama's pastor, friends, and liberal voting record I have been feeling very disenfranchised from him. A couple things that bother me about him are that you can't criticize him at all because he'll say (or his people) that those are the old politics and we should be above that or that we should stick to "the issues" but I think that we, the American people, should have a right to know about the personal life and close acquaintances of the person who wants us to give him the most powerful position in the free world. Also, if his wife is going to take a major role in the campaign and be very outspoken about her husband being qualified to be the next president then what she says is fair game to review and scrutiny. Now if she had stayed out of the publics eye and then people attacked her then I would say that is uncalled for and inappropriate (to a certain extent) but she is taking a major role in the campaign.

On the flipside, I am tired of people saying that because Obama's middle name Hussein he is, therefore, actually a Muslim in hiding and should not be the President. I met a guy at a recruiting event for a company once and he was from Dubai, grew up a Muslim, and his first name was Hussein and I spoke with him about how people would question him as a person because of his name. I am sorry but I think that is the most ignorant thing someone could do, well maybe not the most ignorant but very stupid nonetheless. Following that logic, we should take financial advise from anyone with the name of Alan, Warren, and Donald; we should choose anyone named Lebron, Kobe, and Michael for our basketball team; and if someone's name is Ronaldo, Ronaldo, or Ronaldino then they must be really good at soccer. (Actually that last one may be true.)

Politics fascinate me but politicians often annoy me. The idea that people sit around and argue about what other people should be made to do and then get paid by those other people seems like a big scam. Don't get me wrong, I love this country and I do realize and accept that there must be laws for the general public safety and well-being; but laws discussed, proposed, argued, blocked, and passed by politicians that I believe fall into this category are maybe 1% of total actions of politicians.