My Simple Life in Ithaca

Since Barack became the ‘presumptive democratic nominee’, J.Mac (my new name for John McCain) has been on a daily assault about the damn town hall meetings. He challenges Barack to meet him in a different mid-america city everyday. Out of control. We know you like the town halls “my friend” but seriously, give it a rest for a minute. You will get your town hall – ‘Rack ent scurred of you.

But my real question is this – why is it that J.Mac sent his town hall invite letter to just Barack? Why not the other candidates? Yeah – the other candidates. LOL. As a registered independent, I think I should give a little love to the independents running for office (cause they sho nuff don’t get no real press love).

Some people hate independent candidates because as they see it, indeps just distract us from the ‘real issues’ and the ‘real debate’. Where is the democracy in the Democracy we vehemently proclaim to be the world’s greatest when just one week ago we were staring in the face of 30 years! of Bush/Clinton?! Think about that.

I think the independents of the campaign should be allowed participate in all debates or town halls or whatever the heck J.Mac wants. We need to be challenged to think through the difficult issues cause truth be told, nothing is as cut and dry as Reps and Dems make it out to be.

So, who are these indeps anyway? Well, here’s the line up.

Cynthia- yup. Cynthia McKinney is still out there and running on the Green Party ticket. Maybe she will ask Jared Ball to be her VP. That would be very colorful to say the least. By the way.. to all of those people who say Barack is getting the ‘black’ vote cause he black, why haven’t we all run to Cynthia? Technically, isn’t she ‘blacker’?? Hmm… (must be sexism)
anyway, here is cynthia’s website. http://www.runcynthiarun.org/

Ralph - the last time I saw Ralph Nader he was sitting on Tim Russert’s show announcing his candidacy. Some people still blame Ralph for Al Gore’s loss. LOL. Uhm uhm. Al had bigger issues than Ralph…namely, Bill … Clinton. But that is another sermon for another day. Seriously, Ralph has already picked his VP – and is moving full steam ahead with an all out ‘no-bama’ campaign. http://www.votenader.org/

Bob - you may not know Bob Barr, but he was one of the main ‘impeach clinton’ people back in the day. Apparently he is no longer a republican. (He pissed with Bush too) and is … running on the Libertarian ticket. CSPAN spent a day on the Libertarian party nomination meeting a couple of weeks ago and of course I spent part of my weekend watching it. LOL. I’m not really a big fan of Bob, but he will definitely have a few words for our favorite mainstream candidates. http://www.bobbarr2008.com/splash/?s0609

Ok. Bob’s website looks eerily like Barack’s. Why is everyone ALWAYS ragging on Barack and biting of him at every turn?!?! Ya’ll need to check that!)

Ron- I’m actually not sure if Ron Paul is still running for president, but his fans LOVE him and think he can give J.Mac a run for his money. Maybe he will join Bob Barr on the Libertarian ticket… hmm….