sitting and watching the nightly news has become a painful event. watching the republican battle between bush and mccain has become a battle between cash and honor. on one side of the battle you have old money, namely bush. he used his mother and father’s name to get him into office in texas instead of using his platform, morals, and his honor. now he is using the same tactics to try and attain the highest office in the land, president. on the other side of the battle you have the military veteran, namely mccain. he is an honorable person but is approaching his campaign wrong. instead of identifying with his constituents he instead tries standing above them and preaching to them.


was politics ever an honorable event? why can we not elect leaders who are honorable. why can we not elect someone that we can look up to, that we would want our children to use as a role model. i find it hard to believe that a country as great as ours sees progress is electing imbeciles. we are embarrassing ourselves as a country.


so what would make an ideal leader? someone who stands up for their beliefs, yet is susceptible to others viewpoints. someone who is in touch with the people, knows the hardships and the joys of his constituents. someone who will support and maybe even who has defended the constitution. what we need is someone who honors the family, sees the importance of helping the poor, and above all respects and exudes honor instead greed.


so is this a reality? i don’t doubt that many of todays politicians may have started with these traits in mind, or at least they were striving toward them. so what happened? well thats a simple question to answer if your willing to open your eyes. its a simple word “greed”. the stranglehold that special interest groups have on elections is phenomenal. todays multi million dollar elections need backing and what better way to get it then sell out to a few select special interest groups. tobacco, meat & poultry, guns, banking … the list can go on and on.


so what can we do? how can this be fixed? well besides more people voting with more people doing research outside of tv, the only thing left is a free form of publicity. free if done right or cheap if done wrong. what i am talking about is the “internet”. news groups, message boards, chat areas, banners, public forums. we need a candidate who will embarrass this forum and run with it. if you look at the statistics most of the voting class in american is wired. what media is least used in politics when it offers the most benefits.


regardless of how the internet can affect an election the fact of the matter is that the united states of america is being bought. few will deny it, but even fewer will do anything about it. lets stand up as a nation and let the candidates know that our vote cannot be bought. lets choose our candidate based on their platform and their stance on the issues, or in some cases the lack of stance. i think we owe this if not to ourselves then to our children.


but that’s just my opinion, for what its worth …