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People really believe in this election.  At first, I got into it like many people, feeling passionate about the electoral system in the hopes of ejecting the poisonous doctrine that the Republican party had filled America with in the past 8 years.  However, these past fews months, most notably with the passing of the bailout rape of the American economy along with the unanimous passing of the pro-IP bill in the Senate, I feel that it won't make a lick of difference who would be voted into office because neither candidate will do anything explicitly for the American people.

McCain is just old, has a whore for a running mate and says stupid things that belongs in a nursing home where he should live the rest of his life.  Now, Obama is just another wolf in sheep's clothing.  He poses as a democrat but really is in for himself and his buddies.  I appreciate his rhetorical stance initially but truth be told, he never reveals anything concrete to make me believe he can nor will do a thing for the American people.  The one major thing that offended me was how he stated that he would invest money into American automotive companies to build energy efficient vehicles rather than seeing them offshored to Japan and Korea.

Excuse me?

Are we in the 1980's with the Reagan era?

People consume Japanese and even Korean products because plainly they are superior in quality.  This is a key fact.  Toyota and Honda were conceiving of hybrid vehicles while GM and Ford rested on their laurels making gas guzzlers that cost Americans and the oil mines a fortune.  Even if you take away the hybrids, the Japanese cars in particular have been noted for their quality.  As someone who has worked with wrenchheads before, I was recommended from the start to always buy Japanese or German since I would never have maintenence and parts issues.  Ask my friends who purchased American made automobiles and see how they fared in the past decade.

The other thing is that these companies, especially Toyota, Honda and Nissan employ a great deal of people in America.  Toyota, as a matter of fact, has a hybrid Camry plant in Kentucky of all places.  That silly bit of rhetoric to me defies the fact that this is a black person that is using nationality in a racist/prejudicial manner to inspire fear and doubt!  Of all things he should know better!

I admit to not following each speech as closely as I should to debate each point.  However, the recent turn of events in the American government points to a system so corrupted that the nominees are nothing more than figureheads with a signature.  Until the people are truly represented by being able to directly vote for the bills themselves and find a voice that isn't squashed by special interest groups, corporate lobbyists and other groups with hordes of cash, then the American government system will remain perpetually flawed.

I used to believe that this election would be the most important one of our lifetimes.  But I think that elections are nothing more than fanfare for highlighting a few people who managed to slither up the totem pole of society.