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Some black guy.

Psyche! He will…at least there is a 99% chance he will. Apparently an ailing Ted Kennedy wasn’t going to even show up for the convention, but the place went nuts when he did. Some good entertainment, just like a good movie. For example, people went crazy when they saw Samuel Jackson show up as Nick Fury at the end credits of Iron Man, maybe some people went crazy like me when Tony Stark showed up at the end of The Incredible Hulk. But like a Hollywood motion picture, politicians are nothing but great story-tellers.

I promised a little blog post about politics, so I might as well deliver. This election year there is only one word that can really describe my feelings and involvement: apathetic. I am not hearing what I need to hear, I suppose you could say. Obama promises change, McCain promises more of the same. One thing I can guarantee about Obama is a “change of mind”. I can elaborate on that later. As for McCain, a 2008 McCain is nowhere near a 2000 McCain — that’s troublesome.

During the primary season, I became a supporter for Ron Paul. (Unlike a majority running for president, he wasn’t a fairy-teller. He told you the reality and he told you what had to be done. As of now, he is just running a campaign to get back to the Constitution and no longer seeking the presidency. I really don’t want to make this a story about Dr. Paul though.) It was early, but my friend told me that if Obama or McCain ended up being the two party nominations, he wouldn’t be able to decide. I could agree, the two were the best of both worlds. However, as of today, he is a huge Barack Obama supporter. I don’t blame him, putting the two side-by-side, Obama appears to be a much better candidate.

I’ve spoked to some staunch Republicans about their views on McCain, and even they say that McCain isn’t their favorite but they support him because simply… “he isn’t the enemy Democrat”. I even went into the history of McCain, one didn’t take too kindly to my comments about how he may have received special treatment from the Vietcong because they discovered his father was a top admiral of the Navy. I shit you not, this is what the guy asked of me, “Are you saying he is unpatriotic?”. I face-palmed myself and just saved myself from mentioning how much of a terrible pilot John McCain was to begin with (he crashed 5 planes, Come ON!)

Then there is Obama. Who can’t say great things about him? I definitely can atleast say he doesn’t have my vote. I was always told that when something is “too good to be true, it almost always is”. For example, Obama has a tendency to do a 180° on everything he believed in. Then he picked Joe Biden. Obama has been bought.

And that is why I am so apathetic. Its no so much I am fatigued by having to listen to who the media wants me to support (as my one friend had been saying. It goes further than that. It’s the lobbying, the big-money, the corporate sponsors. Barack Obama was suppose to change all that, I was told he represented the good in all of us, but even he couldn’t escape the Telecom companies.

I’ve had a few people ask me who I was supporting, but they expect a short response, so they don’t allow me enough time to explain my decision. So I just sit back and shrug my shoulders, that’s all I can do until this one is played out.