The Political Madness

As we all SHOULD very well know, we are in the middle of the presidential primary season. This is a very exciting time for America because it is our chance to vote for the person we want to lead our great country. It is a chance for us to exersize our first ammendment rights and to allow us to speak our minds about politics.


Now, if you are like me, Politics isn't the first thing that you think about it the morning, and maybe even the whole day. I think its safe to say that most Americans have other things they like to worry about. But the one thing I don't understand is the media. Most of the media is generally one sided. Whether a paticular televison station is liberal or conservative is for you to decide. But even the most far left and far right media have one thing in common. They like to report about things such as Hollywood, or whether or not Brittany Spears has had another mental break down.



Now we have television stations for news like this (The E Network for example). I went into deep thought the other day about why American television is littered with this type of media. Finally I came to my conclusion. I concluded that a large percentage of Americans care about whether or not Brittany Spear's sister is going to keep her baby, then the presidential primaries. It is a proven fact that there is a large percentage of Americans who didn't vote. If you don't believe me click HERE. I was watching FOX News the other day and I noticed durring the whole Brittany-Spears-Mental-Breakdown-Epidemic, that one of the TOP stories was Brittany Spears. This is the network I generally go for political information because we are right in the middle of the primary season. Sure enough there was Brittany's face on my television rather then Barack Obama's or John McCain's.



This angered me a bit because I found it amazing how American's can care more about Brittany then about the good of our country. What people need to realize is that we are about to elect the President of the United States. In other words, the President of the most powerful nation in the world. We should feel honored that we have a chance to participate in the selection of this new leader. We should be looking at the views of the fellow candidates so that we can make a good descision. We SHOULDN'T have to play Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mow at the polls to see who we are going to vote for. We should be proud of our right to vote and exersise that right as much as we can.