Last evening marked one of those very rare and historical events that will be talked about for generations. The “stain of our constitution” has given way to the ultimate manifistation of our political and social landscape. Day one has begun on a new journey four our country so let us make the most of this historic occasion. I’ve grabbed a few screenshots of the morning...

VOTE!

There is just about 17 days to go till we prepare for the first state precincts to go, and the quad-annual rush to various media outlets to see what the exit polls have produced, and soon a new president will be announced. This has been at the very least an interesting exercise in our political process. From the underdog in the Democratic party taking on the inevitable Clintons’s re-ascension to the top post, to McCain getting written off every day by the MSM only to claim the crown of the Republican party, it seemed that we would have a relatively civil debate coming into the waning days till...

It’s been quite a while since I posted anything political on my blog, hell the last post I had Hillary was still in the race. Since then Obama became the presumptive nominee, Tim Russert suddenly passed, and some people have been getting mad that Obama has been turning a bit more “towards the middle” for the upcoming general election. First some are up in arms that Obama is now wearing a flag pin. For the record he has never said he won’t wear one, but that for some people wearing one “became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism.” With him wearing one now he...

I am still following the Democratic nomination race and didn’t have much to post up since it has seemed for a while that despite Hillary’s desperate attempts to get the nomination are futile, her rhetoric had calmed down some and with the win in Oregon Obama’s path to clinch it is pretty inevitable. But Hillary has outdone herself once again and it dives into the more personal truths about her. On May 22, she had repeated some comments that went largely unnoticed in March of 2008 about one of the reasons she is staying in the race. Nearly verbatim this is her most recent...