Isaac Sinnett

Politics Through My Eyes

Today I was reading that Hillary Clinton has said that she believes that the super delegates should vote for whomever they feel will make the best presidential candidate.  I’ll get to my thoughts on this in a second.  First, to even the playing field.  While Barack Obama seems to not have taken a firm stance on this particular issue seems to be leaning more heavily towards the super delegates voting towards the people’s vote.  Well, this makes sense for both campaigns to have their respective views on super delegate votes.  Each view will benefit their campaign most.  Obama has more delegates based on the popular vote than does Clinton so he would of course want the super delegates to follow the popular while Clinton would want them to go with the “best” candidate.  This would give her the only chance to get them.  I understand that the reason for the super delegates is so that they can vote for whichever person they want to no matter what.  But if they follow the Clinton philosophy then you have to ask yourself what good the popular vote actually is.  What’s the point?  Then the people can vote in who they want and if it’s close, like it is, then the super delegates can negate the whole popular vote if they so choose.  It’s going to be an interesting race.

buh bye

we just canceled our cable!  that’s right.  the deed is done.  it’s actually going to be a good thing.  we weren’t really watching it and it’s going to save us a ton of money.  in addition to that fact, there just simply isn’t anything on tv anyway. i would find myself watching it just for boredoms sake.  and it’s just never a good idea to please boredom through tv.  don’t worry though.  the internet isn’t going anywhere and the speed is going to increase.  even with this increase in internet speed, the savings per month are nothing short of monumental in the book of me.

the republican’s have officially said adios to presidential hopeful huckabee.  it’s not as if that was much of a mystery, but some people need firm numbers for defeat confirmation.  the democratic race is getting crazier by the day and it seems as though one of them has said buh bye to the issues and hello to “politics”.

last but not least, it seems as though i have booted the ever popular part of writing known as capitalization.

Voting?

So I have purchased some books and been reading some articles online, preparing myself for the upcoming election. I need to know who and why I am going to vote. I have long held the belief that I have a right not to vote. This typically turns out not to be a very popular line of thought. In fact, most people get angry about it. But what if you have done the research and your educated decision is not to vote. There just simply isn’t a candidate that you feel you can vote for. People then argue that you should still vote, even if you check the other box and vote for yourself or anyone else. But how is that better than not voting at all? Seems to me you are accomplishing the same result. This year, I may not really agree with all of the ideals of different candidates but feel that after I have educated myself I can make a decision that I’m happy with and place my vote. And to me, that’s what it’s about. Finding a candidate that you can agree with their general philosophy. Everything is going to change once they get into office, but you hope their general philosophies stay true.