This is a short note I wrote to a friend on the election and some of my thoughts. I thought it would make a good reflective diary on some of the confusion and conflict many of us are feeling right now.
I will try. It depends. Here's some of my thoughts. I think that we all take this government and this country for granted and it has become really sick under George W. Bush. Millionaires pay lower tax rates than the poor, we rush to war and kill hundreds of thousands of people over weapons that didn't exist, we have lost our standing as a global leader, global warming is right around the corner and we are stuck in neutral, our government is corrupted by lobbysits and our representatives forget that it is US they represent, not the people who fund their campaigns! It's pretty out of control. Our healthcare system is like #38 in the world and our press is like the #40 most free. The government is shredding our liberties and the executive branch has taken a dangerous amount of power. So the stakes are high, and I don't think a republican is going to do much about any of those problems. So you can understand why I would support whoever the nominee is over Rudy or Romney (cringe...). But I think we need the absolute BEST democrat. Hillary...I don't trust her to give back executive authority, I don't trust her to be open and honest, I don't trust her to stop the corruption. Obama seems so inexperienced to me. I think he would lose to Giuliani, he's too short on specifics, and he should not have run for president yet. He should have been in Congress SHOWING leadership, not running now and telling us what leadership SHOULD look like. So I'm at a loss. Biden is far from perfect, perhaps Edwards, although he is far from perfect as well. I'M SO CONFUSED!!! WHY ISN’T WES CLARK OR AL GORE RUNNING????