That's How Bad We Want a New President

The headlines over the last few days have talked about how the 2008 Presidential Primary has started so early (647 days until Election Day) and how this could be the sign of some new trend thanks to instant communication or 24 hour News Coverage. While the Internets (that series of tubes) and MSNBC, CNN, FAUX News, and such may be pushing us to seek more answers, they are not the reason for this sudden urge to start the 2008 race. It's quite simple why we're looking so far ahead: we want a new president.

If it was possible to elect a new president in 2006, the American people would have done it and there would have been massive blue spots in Montana, Missouri, Virginia, and Colorado. This country has had enough with this President. And unlike bad shows on TV, we can't simply throw him out of the White House for consistantly bad ratings.

The American public is looking ahead to 2008 because they are desperate for some hope and direction. Though the indicators may say the economy is strong, the truth is most people aren't feeling it. There are still millions who have no health care and millions more making well below the poverty line. We have an illegal immigration crisis that has nothing to do with immigration itself or the War on Terror (Securing our borders is like airport security ... a red herring) but rather a stigma perpetuated by racism and ignorance. We have spent billions upon billons on a war we should never have started, lost over 3,000 American men and women for a cause that was never right or just, wounded over 22,000 brave soldiers in the hopes of playing God with the Middle East. I can only imagine God sitting up on his throne in Heaven, shaking his head, screaming down to the White House "No, I didn't tell you to become President! I said you had the brains of a pheasant!"

So yeah, I can understand why we're watching with such interest into who will be our next president. With a present as good as this, and the past 6 years as bad as they've been, that only leaves us with the future. And unless we make the right decision in 2008, the Global Climate Crisis facing us now and the continuing destabilization of the Middle East may just make even the future too bleak for hope.