Shhhh, I have a secret...well maybe it's really a confession. I'm not really into politics. I mean, I'm young, educated, 'enlightened'...all of that, but still not reeeeally interested in the political goings ons.

It's like...I vote, but I don't spend a lot of time researching candidates. I watch CNN on a regular basis, but I feel more informed by The Daily Show. I watch pieces of the DNC speeches...while I'm on commercial break from Cartoon Network's Total Drama Island. It's just who I am.

I think that a huge part of it, is that I don't really 'believe' in our political process. Don't get me wrong, I think that there are some very well intentioned individuals and some good that comes out of their efforts. However, I just think that there are MORE individuals with their own agenda (or conflicting agendas) who stand in the way of most of the changes that we all want to see take place. At the end of the day, I guess I feel like the intentions and promises are great, but making those items a reality takes more that just the one individual...so maybe it'll get done, maybe not. Plus...everything that appears in the media is slanted, biased, twisted, bought and paid for...so I view all that rhetoric as a bunch of BS anyway.

For me politics is a necessary process to participate in, but I invest the majority of my time and efforts on the local grassroots projects where I can really SEE the changes take place. Does that make sense?

All of that being said, I am SOOOO Pro-Obama that it doesn't make any sense. Never before, have I really believed in the intentions and abilities of a candidate the way that I do right now. This man is the most accessible, ordinary, down-to-earth American that I have EVER seen run for office. He is SO REAL, and I have nothing but the highest hopes for his administration.

Go Obama-Biden 2008!!!

(P.S. I love this poster, and it on a t-shirt would make an AWESOME b-day gift...I'm just saying.)