As the Democratic nominee race has gone on, and on, and ( yawn ) on, I have continually lost interest in it. Not because I don’t care, really, but ….. ok, I guess I really don’t care. It’s been called “historical” and “memorable”, and states that we forgot even existed are having primaries. It’s gone on too long, been too expensive, and the only thing the candidates have left to say is not about themselves, really, but how to make the other candidate look bad. Not that they haven’t been trying all along, but now is when they go into super slam mode. Continue reading

Barak. Hillary. Neither one has plans to drop out of the race for the Democratic nomination. The campaigning and fund raising and fund wasting will go on.

The speeches and accusations and polls and all that it entails have a ways to go yet. Maybe more debates, like we haven’t had enough of these already. More commercials, which I’m sure just thrills all of us. And I’m sure, more “Him and his pastor” talk and “Her and her sniper fire” stories and “His wife hates America” and… Continue reading

One of the freedoms of being an American is the right to select your governments members. It is a system, as it was put long ago, “Of the people, by the people, for the people”. It is a right that not all people around the world have, not every nation allows. It is, in essence, the people governing themselves.

So, why do I, along with many others, get sick of the whole process? Why do we dread election years and all that they entail? Why does it make us want… Continue reading