All Aboard!!!!

The three-fifteen to Nutley is now leaving the station.  Please remain seated and have your ticket stubs available for train staff to check them.  Today's express ride will be arriving in Nutley in approximately four hours twenty five minutes, and we will be featuring roast chicken, potatoes, and your choice of greens, in our dining car anytime after four. Drinks are available upon request.  Thanks for choosing us and welcome aboard the McCain Train!

Now that Barack Obama has won the democratic nomination for US president, He and McCain can finally duke it out for real.  Watching CNN last night the "best political team on television" did bring up a lot of points that were worth mentioning.  Specifically highlighting the historical significance throughout this election.  The US has its first African American presidential nominee ever, and his main competition to gain that nomination was a woman, also a first.  Pretty amazing to think about. 

Additionally, the two candidates for president pose something else the American populace hasn't seen in years: two candidates with decidedly different views on many key issues.  Don't believe me? Try here or here or even here. What's your issue? Abortion? Technology? Google it, whatever the issue I'm sure there's plenty out there to read up on.  On many issues, these two candidates are nearly polar opposites.  Which is why this general election race in the coming months will be such a great one to watch. 

As for poor Hillary - well in my opinion she just doesn't know when to say when.  Her moment in the spotlight is over and she SHOULD do the democratic party a favor by helping hand the spotlight (and urging her loyalists) to support Obama.  However, the longer she keeps making a show for the media with her own political ambitions, the more it will help the republicans.  I just don't like her strategy or her apparent self centered-ness.  So hopefully she will dissapear back to the senate or wherever else she chooses to go.  (some have suggested she would make a good Health Human Services Secretary on the Obama cabinet, provided he win the white house.  I agree, she would be the perfect person to force mandatory health care on us all)

For me, the choice becomes easier the more I read up on both these candidates.  It is hard to choose a candidate when both support some issues that you like and some you don't.  But I will gladly take up Mr. McCain on those few issues I disagree with to avoid Obama's ideals for our nation.  The government already has too much power over citizens.  The more power we give federal government, the less right we, as citizens, have to decide our own fate.  The socialist collectivism views expressed by Obama just aren't for me.  If he is elected president, it is going to be a big hit for individual freedoms, to make way for the "greater overall good".