For the Record...

Today is primary day in Pennsylvania, and no I did not vote. In order to vote in a party's primaries in Pennsylvania, you must be a registered member of that party, and I've already been over that. Even for this race, I couldn't do it.

For the record, I feel a leaning towards Obama. Could I tell you why? No, not really. I know policy-wise, Obama and Clinton are very similar. So, it boils down to a gut feeling of personality, and in that area, while it's all a complete and total crapshoot, Obama wins for me. He had the integrity to not completely abandon friends when it would have been politically expedient to do so. He had the balls to get on Logo and explain why he saw a difference between gay marriage and equal marriage rights (and he paid the GLBTQ community a huge compliment by assuming we could understand that difference). A lot is said about how he doesn't have the experience in politics to be president...but to me, that's all the more reason to think that he should be president. His upfront and unabashed handling of issues that aren't usually addressed in polite company speak to a naivete and an idealism that draw me in.

What it comes down to is that I know next to nothing about how to run a country. I don't know which is the best way to save social security, try to defuse the situation in Iraq, or fix the health care system. All I know is that the people we've tasked with doing these things for the last eight years have really bunged it all up. The only thing I know is that the next person we put in office needs to be less concerned about repaying political debts and being afraid to need the advice of others, and more concerned about doing what is right, no matter who suggests it. I honestly think that either of the two will fit that bill.