US Politics - The Playground of Empty Phrases

I do not care much about politics. Never have. However listening to the hypocrisy from both conventions makes me laugh. Obama seems like a preacher with a halo around his head. Makes me shiver. Brrr. I doubt he will be able to live up to all the hype he has created and boosted around his campaign. It is just too cosy to feel good. I do not think he is a bad person, but the image just is a bit too perfect for my taste.

Then we have the Beauty and the Beast. Sorry the Barracuda and the Old Man. What I am more astonished by the Republican National Convention is the complete irony of Sarah PalinSarah Palin conservatism, especially pre-marriage sex. She preaches no sex before marriage and has a 17 years old unmarried daughter who is pregnant. No one is perfect so I do not really mind that. No family is perfect. No human is. However if you are trying to preach something that you obviously cannot even maintain in your family, why should someone listen to you? Clean up your own backyard until you start pointing fingers at others. Shouldn't we start to realize that the century we live in is the 21th not the 19th... Maybe it would be as simple as teach people how to relate to sex not to go for the ostrage mentality to pretend it doesn't exists. That strategy clearly does not work.

This cosy convenient "truths" goes for both parties. I guess the year where the US politics should change and be more international focused is gonna stay a dream for the rest of the world. The scary part is still that 50% voted for Bush last time. They might vote equally strange this time.

Have mercy on our lives! I guess we need it.