Feb 12th, 08
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You have never had a chance to choose a candidate from a presidential ballot that didn’t have the last name “Bush” or “Clinton” on it. In fact 1996 is only the only year you have had no Bush on the ballot.
I think it is quite unhealthy to have two families controlling our country for such a long time period.
Another tidbit of information to chew on. Let’s say Clinton gets elected this year, and then re-elected in 2012. Guess who will be legally able to run for the presidency in 2016… Chelsea Clinton!! She will be 36 that year. Alright, so maybe that is too unlikely. Well, don’t forget about the current Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush. He would be 63 and ready to redeem the Bush name!!
1980 (Reagan – Bush) | (Carter – Mondale)
1984 (Reagan – Bush) | (Mondale – Ferraro)
1988 (Bush – Quayle) | (Dukakis – Bentsen)
1992 (Clinton – Gore) | (Bush – Quayle)
1996 (Clinton – Gore) | (Dole – Kemp)
2000 (Bush – Cheney) | (Gore – Lieberman)
2004 (Bush – Cheney) | (Kerry – Edwards)
Feb 11th, 08
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Obama isn’t getting the “Latino vote”
Huckabee has the “white evangelical vote”
My blood starts to boil when I hear those types of words coming out of peoples mouths. People are more valuable… more complex than the marketing firms and political analysts out there care to believe. I’m in the 25 – 40 demographic… I’m White… I’m a Christian. Does that mean that I will vote or buy the same durable goods that every other Christian whitey in their 20′s or 30′s??? I highly doubt it. The problem is they don’t want to know us… they just want to label us.
I know that it would extremely convenient to just be able to label each person, put them in a box on a shelf and forget about them… but its not that easy. Deep down at our core we want to know and also… we want to be known.
So please… don’t put people in a box.
Feb 10th, 08
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This year instead of going out to dinner for Valentines Day and choosing from a “fixed menu” I decided that I would prepare and cook a dinner for Kelly. Now that it is 5 days away I am getting nervous. You see my cooking resume goes something like this:
Grilled Cheese
Toast
Rice (in a rice cooker)
So today is my day to plan it all out. I have narrowed it down to a few different recipes. Stay tuned for an update on Friday on how it went…
