I doubt I should write a post about politics, but I just can’t help myself.  I think this is going to be an important vote.  I have strong opinions about it, but I won’t talk about that.

What I do find extremely interesting about this presidential campaign is how much of it seems to be focused on the kind of people who are running rather than the views of those people.

On the Democratic side, a woman almost won the nomination.  But, when she lost, many of her supporters said they’d vote Republican in retaliation.  What kind of sense does that make?

Then, at the convention, Senator Clinton did an outstanding job of speaking directly to those among her supporters who threatened to jump ship.  She actually felt she had to make the point that if people supported her, they supported the views of the Democratic party, and therefore should support Senator Obama.

Are we that stupid that we couldn’t figure that out on our own?  Guess so.

And, from what I hear, there are many people who are fanatically for or against the Democratic ticket because the nominee is African-American.  Well, at least that’s what everyone calls him, although he’s actually a mulatto.

The definition of mulatto is: a term used to describe a person with one white parent and one black parent, or a person whose ancestry is a mixture of black and white.  I would imagine that definition applies to quite a few of us.

Then, the Democrats initially seemed to be running against John McCain.  Now, it seems that they’re running against a war hero and a woman.  And, since I went to the grocery last night, I now know that the tabloids have already come up with alien-lands-in-Alaska-type stories about Governor Palin.

I am glad I had the luck to be born in the U.S.  But, our political process seems to get crazier every four years, and it drives me nuts.

Speaking of nuts, I think we should nominate a squirrel for President.  I’m sure there are way more squirrels than there are people in this country, so I figure a squirrel would be a shoo-in.