BARACK THE VOTE!

The Next President of the United States

Wowsas, it's been a while since I visited the blogosphere. Quite an eventful month, indeed. We have a Democratic Congress, led by a woman speaker, a president whose cluelessness emerges more clearly every day and a country in desperate need of something or someone to restore our faith in our leaders.

Enter Mr. Barack Obama.

There has been much speculation about this rock star senator from Illinios about whom no one knew a thing three years ago, but who has emerged as perhaps our greatest hope in over a decade. We've fawned over his handsome looks and cheered at his charismatic speeches, which is all well and good, but beyond this aesthetic and semantic appeal lies something much deeper: he is 100% real. I actually believe the words that come out of his mouth; I actually trust that he knows what he is talking about.

Much has been made of his lack of experience in the federal government, but he has what the entire Bush administration lacks: good judgment. The collective decades of experience represented in the White House have been nothing but catastrophic. Besides, perhaps what this country needs is an outsider, someone who has not been sucked into the insane asylum that is Washington politics.

And lest we forget, he is one of the few invididuals in the current Congress who spoke out against the Iraq war from the get-go (ahem, Hillary?). He criticizes the current situation not for political gain but because he has always had misgivings about the mess Bush has gotten us into.

When I gush about America's next Commander In Chief, I am asked if I think America is really ready for a black president. I can't read America's mind and I know our pathetic history. But I believe in Barack Obama and I hope against hope that electing him President will be the beginning of something completely different. Call me naive or idealistic, but I think he is EVERYTHING this country needs!