As the election heats up, have you been burned yet? I haven’t. I could do this all day.
It’s that time of year again. Well, it’s that time of every four years again, actually. In just a little more than two months, polls across the nation will be crowded with people conforming to either the right or the left.
If you are undecided, though: have no fear. As the election looms forth the campaigning is only going to get more intense. Conventions, debates, and endorsements (maybe even one from yours truly) will be coming and going until Nov. 6. There’s plenty of time to make up your mind.
So, now that that’s out of the way: How have you been? Did you miss me? I certainly have missed writing to you. What did you do this summer? Did you go on any adventures? I did.
I was in an airplane crash that left me stranded in Barbados with (God forbid) my family. A week of bliss, harmony and examination of how a Caribbean government functions ensued. What did I learn? That we’re lucky we live in a country that has the ability to be self-sustaining. Everything in Barbados is imported, which is gentleman’s speak for EXPENSIVE. Great people though, more than I can say for, well, you know…
It was nice to sit back this summer and hypothesize. I wrote a seven-page essay about how much more productive the human race would be if we all had a third-arm. If we spent a trillion dollars to genetically engineer such an innovative trait then the debt crises would end by 2050 and we would be in the green again with how much we would be getting done. Maybe I’ll read the essay to you. It’s beautifully written.
Alas: I ran, I hid, but I could not escape POLITICS!!!!!
Let’s see, what else happened this summer? Well, let’s start here:
Wisconsin returned from hell-in-a-handbasket with a recall victory for Republican Governor (Luke) Scott Walker. Then just more than a month later, America’s Dairyland exhaled a young whipper-snapping Republican force, Congressman Paul Ryan, to run alongside Mitt Romney.
Paul Ryan is very similar to Mitt Romney. The one thing he does very well, which no member of the GOP has been able to do for years, is talk. That was what set him apart and made him a lucrative VP option. I guarantee Joe Biden will be running for the hills come debate time. Some are calling for Ryan to debate Obama, but it would never happen. David Axelrod is smart enough not to consent. It would be the best-spoken debate in recent history. Remember: it’s not what you say; it’s how you say it.
I feel like I’m missing something. Oh yes, that’s right. Chick-fil-A! I stopped following it after a day because it isn’t a terribly important topic to me, but can anyone tell me if the protesters were still outside of Chick-fil-A establishments on Sundays? They know it’s closed, right?
Occupy Chick-fil-A seemed like a waste of time and space as a whole to me. If you don’t know what happened then let me sum it up for you: Chick-fil-A COO Dan Cathy said some painstaking comments against gay marriage. Liberals, and Joe Biden, I guess, got all upset because of Cathy’s beliefs so they picketed outside of Chick-fil-As across the country and told people (like my 5 year old nephew who loves it) not to eat there because of the hate that they use to slaughter their chickens. I’m allergic to peanuts and Chick-fil-A uses peanut oil so I don’t eat there. Maybe the situation would have affected me differently if I had tried their chicken before.
What Dan Cathy said was obviously meant to be criticized, but it was his right to exercise free speech and he can believe whatever he wants. So many people view the man as a villain because of a religious influence on him. However, there are a large number of the unnamed who agree with him in the same vein, and although they wouldn’t picket, if Cathy had come out and said that he thinks gays should be able to get married then they probably would have been quite upset.
What’s the conclusion? There’s no winning in this country. Anything you say with regards to social issues is doomed to spur up negative emotions from some party. That’s why negative ads have become so prominent, too.
Let’s take a field trip back to grade school standards, where, if we didn’t have anything nice to say, we were told not to say anything at all. Now we live that way and few people really open their mouths. It’s the only way to prevent taking the abuse back tenfold. In a perfect America, no one says a word.
Me? I can talk for hours, and I plan on saying something about everything this semester.
Let me conclude by saying that Mitt Romney more than likely has cheated on his taxes and that Barack Obama more than likely was born in Kenya.
Welcome back to Keeping up with the Kandidates.
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