Blue Boy in a Red State

I am ready for this election. I don’t want to spend a lot of posts on political matters but I do feel the need to talk about it at least once on here.

In 2004, I was crushed that Bush stayed in office. It was weird, I voted and felt my vote had lost. It’s an odd feeling to think that a half of the nation disagrees with you. In a winner take all system, the only losers are the ones whose votes didn’t win. It made me do some soul searching, blah blah blah. All that jazz is good and dandy, but I eventually felt like I’d be able to back a candidate who is upright and just.

I first saw Barack Obama speak in 2004. I caught his victory speech on a news program and was thoroughly impressed. I did think to myself, if any black candidate has a chance it is Senator Obama. I think anyone who watched that speech probably kept him in the back of their mind, knowing he’d go somewhere.

I am surprised by the way this election has been going. Not because he is doing so well, because the opposition almost seems crazed. I get that some people cannot back another party candidate… I’m not a registered democrat but I can see myself backing a moderate republican if they were very centrist and not a complete tool. It’d be rare, but I could. I wont go into too many specifics but the amount of mud slinging going on this year is sickening. Yes, you can argue it is on both sides but saying that John McCain votes with Bush 90% of the time is not comparable to keeping silent when your audience yells out racial epithets and threats. Labeling the country pro-america and anti-america is sickening. Division doesn’t make people survive. Unity does. Pointing your finger and yelling socialism is idiotic.

I think I’d enjoy living in either a swing state or a blue state more than a red one. The longer I am here, the longer i will be a blue boy in a red state.