Change?

Anybody still reading this thing? It's only been half a year since I've updated it, my how time flies. I found myself becoming so sick of paying attention to the world that I started focusing most of my attention on ignoring it. Well, hang on to your hats, my three and a half loyal readers, because I'm back and I'm pissed.

Today's topic of discussion is "Change." I can't open a newspaper or turn on the TV without having to listen to some half wit politician spewing rhetoric about how we need "change" in this country. I'm still trying to find out what specifically these candidates want to make different. I hear the word the most from our two leading Democratic candidates for the 2008 election.

They say they're going to "change the economy and then say that they're going to "change" health care by providing socialized medicine. The tax increases necessary to enact the latter is doubtless to create a situation supportive of the former, but certainly not in a good way. I read in the news that these two promise to "change" the situation in Iraq, "change" social security (which the Democrats broke to begin with) and "change" the illegal immigrant problem.

I have yet to hear from either Hillary or Obama how they plan to accomplish any of this. Neither candidate possesses the experience to make me comfortable with even maintaining the current state of the nation (which I do not believe is as bad as they'd like you to think), let alone making any changes to it. They've served a few terms in congressional office, Hillary a bit more than Obama. That's it. Hillary has said that her time in the White House with Bill and his cigars counts, but she has also said that she didn't have all that much to do with the affairs of the nation during those years. Which is it? Obama has even fewer claims to fame, but at least he has been around long enough to get involved in a real estate scandal.

I currently plan to vote Republican in the upcoming election. I will vote for the candidate of choice of the first person that allows me access to their residence, bank accounts and credit cards and all other personal information in order to make a "change" in their life. Any takers?