Brace yourselves people...It is election season and it is about to get ugly. With only eight weeks left, the race for the presidency is about to get as dramatic as an identifying straight girl engaging in a newly-developed lezzy relationship. I am no patriot, but I do love the election season. I love that convictions and perceptions run rampant with no clear path or destination, but yet filled with passion and fervor. I love that, during this span of time, it is completely acceptable for you to have conversations about topics you know absolutely nothing about with people you care absolutely nothing about. I get excited about the potential conversion of a country I was just on the brink of losing faith in. Then, like a ton of bricks, we reach early September and I remember how quickly it all becomes a GINORMOUS PILE OF BULLSHIT.From here on out these two modern day primates will cease to exist as two separate citizens fighting for the same cause. (That cause is the betterment of the great country you live in... in case you were confused) John McCain and Barack Obama are no longer real people, rather conceptions of real people. No news article (or funny lesbian blog) will mention one without the other. Everything they say will be dissected by millions and thrown back in their face at a precise, strategic moment. Nothing they do will go unnoticed and I would bet my collection of Harry Potter books that everything they do over the next eight weeks is because someone advises them to do it.
This year I am lobbying for a "none of the above" option. Why is this not an option? Seriously? Do we really need a president?(It's not like the one we have now does anything) Would it be so bad if we spent the next four years as an executive-free country?
In 1787, when our founding fathers assembled for the constitutional convention, more than one-third of those gathered promoted the idea of multiple, single-term executives. And according to my encyclopedia*, if George Washington had not been the great man that he was, the executive seat (as it is today) most likely would never have been created. George Washington advocated powerfully for the new government; yet, did everything in HIS power to stay out of the limelight. It is for this very reason that he was unanimously voted into the seat. His self-doubt on his ability to lead, his fear that his motives for the new government would be misconstrued as motives for personal gain, and his genuine love of peace were the reasons that he became entrusted to be our first president. Interesting side note: The first citizens of the United States trusted George Washington so much that parts of the constitution were intentionally left blank so that George could fill them in later. (Would we trust our modern day George with a task of that kind of historical caliber?)
You give me a candidate today that resembles the traits of our inaugural president, even a little, and I will give you my vote. Until then I am writing in none of the above. Or Jackie Warner.
*(2007) The New Encyclopedia Britannica 15 edition
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