Hi ho, one and all. It's 8:36 a.m. here in cold Maryland, where the polls have opened for today's Chesapeake/Potomac/Beltway/whatever-you-wanna-call it tri-area primaries. I won't be long with this post, because it's a little past my bedtime (I'm an overnight shift guy, and my work week starts tonight, hence staying up to get my body acclimated).
As these crucial primaries begin, two parts of me are torn between our two candidates -- my head is for Hillary, my heart for Obama. So -- with hours to go before the polls opened -- I decided to spend some of my waking hours on their respective websites, and see where they really stood on the issues (yeah, the night before...what an involved voter I am, huh?). Honestly, I skimmed most of them, but I focused in on two or three key points for ME: energy independence, foreign policy/the war in Iraq, and health care.
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