The most important election ever???

Yesterday, as the Democrat Party Convention was warming up a number of network talking heads, otherwise known as News Anchors, gave their impressions on the upcoming election. The phrases "most vital", "most important", and "critical" were the common thread throughout all the commentaries. You have to wonder. Will the selection of either man running for our highest office be that significant of a choice? Are their ideals, stands and opinions so vastly different that choosing one over the other could spell ruin for the United States?

Not really. What is happening is the typical media hyperbole. The differences between McCain and Obama are about as significant as the difference between and orange and a clementine. Both are fruits, both can be used in the same dishes and they have a similar taste. The differences are subtle, but you wind up in the same place.

Right about now both McCain and Obama supporters are outraged. How can he say (put candidate name here) is like (put opponent name here)?! That's because I'm not invested in either man. Both candidates are the selected property of their party leadership. If you bothered to watch intelligently at all, you would have seen the almost immediate 180 degree switch that their closest rivals performed when McCain and Obama won the majority. Not even Dr. Jeckel changed personality that rapidly. Devils became not just angels, but saviors. The next day television ads proclaimed these men would do everything short of creating life from clay. Now we are being told that this election is history in the making and the United States stands on a precipise and the choosing of the wrong candidate could push us over.

Seeing all the news anchors fawning over Obama, it is obvious which candidate they have chosen. The reaction they had to the one lone journalist who had the bad grace to ask a substantive question solidifies the opinion. The choice of the Republican Party is more puzzling. Obama is an obvious Democrat choice. He is an elitist. He has a history of being friendly with outspoken enemies of this country. He is married to a racist and he speaks very well when the words are written for him. The plus is that he also looks like a minority while being able to act like a member of the ruling class. In their opinion, the best of both worlds. McCain, on the other hand has nothing that the NeoCon Republicans have expressed as vital for party membership. He has no desire to see the border secured. He was one of the founding legislators in securing the treaty to form the superhighway from Mexico to Canada. He has consistently voted to give trade preference to our economic enemies. He has no desire to see illegal immigration stemmed, and he has expressed the belief that the US should not have its own official language, even though those countries he shows favoritism to have such a law.

Perhaps the fact that McCain does have inroads with big oil has something to do with the party faithfuls' support. They own the current administrsation and would like to continue that relationship. If one looks closer, you will also notice that McCain's largest contributers also employ vast numbers of illegals in their workforce. Hypocracy knows no color...unless it is green.
The current gush of overblown opinion coming from the media is not surprising. They have done so before, in spite of looking like idiots. Dan Rather is a past example. In the talk show world, little has changed. Consider Bob D. Elvis is on the line again.