poli-tix
for some reason i love politics, i always wish i knew more. i minor-ed in poly-sci in college pretty much because i wanted to know more. i should have taken a better american history course. but i took poly-sci and now in most of my free time at work i read www.washingtonpost.com. i like listening to people debate politics so i love reading the comment pages of the news stories on news websites. BUT i cannot debate or explain my own political opinions. i get too emotional and i also am worried of being factually wrong, so rather than risk feeling dumb, i usually sit back and let other people talk politics while i listen and ask some questions.
right now i am interested in the 2008 presidential campaign. it is innately interesting, i want to know everything about it. which is pretty easy, it is all over the news. it is actually almost all that is in the news. i think people are obsessed over who is going to be the democratic nominee. the simple fact that the nominee will either be a black man or a woman is fascinating to most people, including myself. it is unfortunate though, when asked what are the differences between them, hillary and barack only say verions of: “what is more important is that we are both way different than the republicans!” i want them to debate, to clash to be productive. i am naive in wanting there to direct confrontation and conclusions drawn. i wish that they could have no representatives, that before this race i had never heard of them. because gilmore girls characters have been cracking hillary for president jokes for a few years now. which is weird watching an episode on dvd and lorelai goes “i’ll see you when hillary’s president!”