Politics Wed: New Schedule

I'm all about schedules now although Monkey and I both can't seem to stick one and quite frankly a weekly post about the Presidential Race just isn't in the cards. I should have known better to tackle something like this and I apologize to any readers and especially my Journalism professors for the lack of quality in these posts (I'd be totally embarrassed if a prof read one!). Plus, since the primaries are almost over and since my primary is over, the "Chesapeake" Primary or whatever they're calling it, I'm going to be a little selfish and start only posting Politics Wednesdays stuff once a month. Most likely the beginning of the month or maybe if my schedule still doesn't permit, only "that time of the month" since it's been a quarterly experience since I gave birth (TMI, sorry!).

Just as final word to our original assignment, the candidate who I was supposed to vote for according to my candidate quiz results in the beginning, Bill Richardson, is obviously not a contender any longer. Just before the Chesapeake Primary, I re-quizzed myself and came up perfectly split between the two remaining Democratic contenders (yes, I'm an Independent but that's what the results were). So then I researched both of their sites on the issues I care about most: Education, Families (specifically Working Mothers and the Middle Class), and the Environment. And while they had some differences, there wasn't anything too striking (at least IMO) that separated the two of them. Therefore, RIGHT up until I actually got to the voting booth I had no idea of who I would vote for, Obama or Clinton? Obama or Clinton? Obama or Clinton? I asked lil' Monkey who he would vote for and he just stared at me blankly. "What do you want from me? I'm 8 months old, woman!" AND he felt asleep on me just as we pulled into the parking of the school where we're supposed to vote! Some help!

In the end, I went with my gut and my gut said a woman understands women and that's that. Honestly, while I'm not absolutely gushing over any candidate and while I still think the guys at South Park have it right about candidates for just about any election, I'm not completely appalled by any of the candidates on either side. So YAY America, for not leaving us with any complete assholes this time!