Over the last few weeks I’ve begun to realize that this whole election process won’t go on forever. For most of the past year, we’ve seen the number of candidates get smaller and smaller until now we are only down to 2, and in only a few weeks only one will be left.
But the crazy thing is, with this whole election process, I kind of forgot that it’s going to end and someone new is going to be President. I mean, of course I knew that from the beginning. But the reality of it is coming closer and closer. Either Obama will be President, or McCain will be President. On one side, it would be so incredibly awesome if Obama wins, and on the other it would so incredibly suck if McCain wins. But, it will be an improvement over what we have now. Unless he dies. That would be the definition bad. But either way, someone is going to win. And that’s a huge thing.
This was originally an email I sent to friends and famliy:
I just donated $40 to the Obama campaign. It’s not much, but small donations like that are part of what has made his campaign unique and special. Regular people are funding his campaign, not huge corporations with special interests.
I decided to donate to Obama because I have become very passionate about politics over the last year or so and believe that he is the change that this country needs to start moving in the right direction again. I was encouraged to donate by my brother Warren, who has been sending the campaign regular monthly payments for a quite a while now. Since I can’t vote, this is the best way that I can help. With Obama as president, we can rebuild our image as the moral leader of the world. Obama will be able to reverse the disastrous mistakes made in the last 8 years.
I lost all respect for McCain after he chose Governor Palin as his running mate. It is an incredibly shallow choice which exposes McCain’s attempt to attract white woman who supported Hillary Clinton during the primaries. Not only is the choice of Governor Palin purely political, she is also someone who believes that abstinence should be the only form of sex education taught in schools - even while her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. She also doesn’t believe that women should have the right to an abortion, and doesn’t believe in evolution. She also has very little experience, with her foreign policy experience consisting of being next to Russia.
I believe that a good president is smart and surrounds himself with people who are educated about important issues, and who may sometimes have conflicting points of views on various issues. This worked very well with Kennedy and his advisors during the “ExComm” meetings during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Even though Obama does not have as much experience as McCain (although certainly more than Palin), I am confident that he will surround himself with smart people and be will have an open mind and make the right decisions on important issues. McCain, so far, has surrounded himself with Governor Palin and her family of 7 (Soon to be 8.) while Obama has chosen Joe Biden, someone who has over 30 years of political experience under his belt.
So, I support Obama not just because I don’t like McCain (specifically what the political process has turned him into.) I support him because he is educated, smart, and understands the lives of Americans in a way that McCain never will. How is one supposed to understand what Americans affected by the mortgage crisis are going through when they themselves have 8 houses? After all, shouldn’t our president know about some of the problems being faced by the people they govern?
I’m typing this from my brand new iPod Touch! It’s the new one that just came out the other day. It is AMAZING.It’s an iPod that plays music, podcasts, movies, and TV shows. But it’s also so much more! Photos, web browser, email - and with applications - pandora, last.fm, AIM, games. It has most features of a basic computer!
Soooo awesome. More later.
So I started school Tuesday and it’s my Junior year of high school which means colleges, colleges, colleges. Colleges emailing me, colleges mailing me, first PSAT score, upcoming PSAT test, SAT next spring, SAT classes, colleges just not shutting up! But then I realized that I will be going a college - one of these colleges, in less than two years. Yikes.
But Junior year is cool. I have all new teachers and my first official free periods twice a week. That’s fun because I get to go to the Library and just completely like… you know, like get a head start on my homework and… type in Word documents… and.. uh… other… awesome stuff like that… that doesn’t include facebook because of awesome website blocker software. Yay for useless computers.
If I do say so myself, I think that my new desktop looks very cool. The dock is hidden on the right and the windows taskbar comes from running Parallels. Which is awwwesome. Just in case you didn’t know that.
“I traveled back in time from the year 2047 to see this movie, because it is still sold out in the future!” Awesome.
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Austen Squarepants is a 15-year-old high school student and geek. He lives in New York City with his parents and is interested in technology, filmmaking, and anything funny.
Netsua is his personal blog and website, where he writes about a variety of topics that interest him. The word "Netsua" is in fact Austen's name spelled backwards. It literally translates from gibberish to "Greatness on the level of Austen."
In addition to Netsua, Austen also writes for the mac application blog MacApper.
