Mike Dedwylder is a junior majoring in architecture. He can be contacted at [email protected]. The 2008 presidential elections are now hanging over our head like an atom bomb, waiting to drop and annihilate everything that we as Americans have grown so used to over the past eight years.
But will it actually make any major changes, or will it simply be a continuation of a governmental system grown bloated with corruption and poor leadership?
Everyone who has not been in a coma for the past two years has undoubtedly heard the talk of how this election is sure to be a quantum shift in our government’s actions and image, as this year, unlike those before, the ballot will most likely contain the names of candidates of various races and genders.
This fact has been pushed to the forefront, while candidates’ actual qualifications have been ignored, as well as the fact that countries all over the world have already passed this phase of shock and awe that people of different races and genders might be elected into positions of power.
It seems to me that the electoral process has become little more than a propaganda storm-driven media spectacle that may as well be run by P.T. Barnum.
It would probably be a safe bet to say that more people know about the latest faux pas committed by the presidential hopefuls than the platforms of these candidates, yet most are already choosing sides as election day looms in our future.
First of all, we need to get past the fact that Hillary Clinton is a woman and realize that she is, in fact, more than a woman; she is a succubus.
All the signs are there. She fully supported the current administration, later reversing her position completely, and as much as I admire Bill Clinton, he has become a joke, quite literally, becoming fodder for the likes of “Family Guy.”
And let’s not forget, she’s the type of person who boasts about a victory when no one was running against her, not to mention the fact that her only campaign tool is insulting her opponents.
Needless to say, Barack Obama is far from faultless. His campaign is nothing more than a shameless media event in which he talks about how cool, charming and “in touch” he is.
But I must admit it seems like Obama at least has a soul, an area in which his opponent seems severely lacking. Still, his campaign feels a lot like the failed career-revitalizing move made by Sean “P. Diddy” Combs last election.
As for the Republican candidates, there’s no point in even discussing them, as the media has forgotten about them.
The dignity has been lost in the election of the leader of the “free world.” No longer is the United States of America the leader we once were.
Our economy is in such a risky state that other countries are preparing for our imminent downfall, we’ve been at war for seven years and the majority of Americans feel unlawfully persecuted.
This election does carry some large issues with it, and unfortunately, the candidates and America seem more interested in image than progress.