Does it really even matter?

I was having a conversation today with some friends of mine and because it's so close we wound up discussing the impending election. That's right the one that's three (3) days away involving certain presidential implications. You already know my position, and if you don't just read the 4 million well spent post. What was interesting was the passion and vigor that this election has evoked. This election is quite possibly the most interesting in our nations history. You have to agree that's making a statement considering the debacle that occurred in 2000. Was the chad hanging or wasn't it? Was the secretary of state bribed? Was Jeb complicit in the hijacking of an election? Were millions of people just paranoid? No, this wasn't Days of Our Lives, Y&R, or a Spanish Tele-Novela, this was the initial election of our 43rd and current President George W. Bush (Dubya). Either way the chips fall this election is historic. If Barack Obama wins he's the first man with an African American heritage to become President. If John McCain wins he is the oldest man ever elected to his first term in US History. What do these two have in common you ask? Both are vying to inherit what is still on course (regardless of what you've heard or read) to be one of the most glorious financial hardships this country, and maybe even the world has faced. We talked and realized both men have plans to get us back to fiscal solvency. Both men say they just want the country to be great. Both men say they intend to cut taxes; (here's my question where is all this bailout money coming from? I mean they have money to give welfare to the airline industry, auto industry, insurance industry, not to mention the banking industry, but want to get all out of pocket when someone finds a way to draw two social security checks. does that really make sense....this is the end of my rant) so with minor differences in their overall methodologies what does it matter? Sure we all like the guy who reminds us the least of the man we've demonized into getting us into this position. But lest we forget the president doesn't make legislation he only signs bills into law. In esscence these men we are poised to elect are at best complicit and at worst more responsible for this financial travesty than our current president (maybe dubya can ask someone to pen it's hard out here for a president, or at least get whoever Billy Clint used when he weasled out of that whole "sexual relations" thing), but I digress because come November 5th in the words of the illustrious RL Matthews "I know one thing" we will have another president. However, knowing that the president really has only so much power does it really matter? Here's a better question can you afford not to care, and fail to exercise your right to vote? Just do me this favor if you don't vote don't give me your opinion on how the election turned out.





Very believable Josh Brolin.....Very believable