Mail-In Ballots, Race Baiting

I just received my mail-in ballot, and was surprised by the many political parties that had a candidate for president: Constitution, Libertarian, Green, HeartQuake '08, Prohibition, Socialist Worker's, Boston Tea, America's Independent, Socialism and Liberation, US Pacifist, Socialist USA, Objectivist, and two Unaffiliated. Other than a paragraph in last week's Rocky Mountain News, I haven't heard or read of any of these parties or candidates. How fun the presidential debates would have been if some of these candidates were invited. Clearly, our media and reporting sucks.

I realized that I have a lot of anger when I was reading over the ballot, so I voted not to retain any of the judges, which amount to 18 no votes and was very satisfying. Judges need to campaign, or at least tell us why we should retain them, how responsible to the populace and the law they have been, what their judicial ratings have been, and if they are some kind of crackpot or not. Throw the bums out...

In a speech yesterday I saw a clip of John McCain refer to "my fellow prisoners," instead of "my fellow citizens." He didn't realize his gaffe. It seems that I was right that when under stress he automatically refers back to the most stressful time of his life, his POW experience, and often doesn't realize he is doing it.

The velvet gloves have been taken off, Cindy McCain is now making speeches and accusing Obama of conducting the dirtiest campaign in history. I think this is in response to the video that was released documenting John McCain's history of having an explosive temper, which also may relate back to his POW experience. Or, it could be the video that shows McCain's role in the last saving and loan bailout, his involvement with the Keating 5. This hits close to home because both Cindy and her father had investments with Keating, and had stayed as guests at his home in the Bahamas. So, it maybe a case of the mother hen trying to guard her eggs.

I knew that these things were waiting in the wings ready to be released if the McCain campaign played the race card. It seems the strategy here is to get as many secondary figures to make claims against Obama's character, doing the Muslim thing again, and generally trying to incite the crowds. The problem with this is that it smacks of the crowd manipulation the Nazis did during the rise of one Mr. Hitler, and it could end with an assassination attempt on Barack Obama. We are nothing if not a cruel and barbaric people.