Sorry for the dearth of posts, I've been absurdly busy. Same old, same old, I'm always complaining about something I know. But I got the GREs out of the way this weekend, I sorta rocked 'em, and that's one thing off my plate.

I'm not really sure what I want to talk about in this post. I really have nothing left. It may be a case of verbal premature ejaculation or it could just be my sheer exhaustion and frustration with the world around me. But I'll try to say something, because this juggernaut named Obama will not be stopped. Not that I'll stop him, but still.

Barack Obama is becoming a celebrity and a standard for not much of a reason. I understand that he is the first major candidate to be black and could very well become the first black president of the United States. That is a great historical development. I want you to be honest with me though: do you think people would be all about Obama in the manner they are if he was just some white dude from Illinois telling all of us to change? Pfft. Yeah, okay. T-shirts depicting this empty suit alongside Martin Luther King, Jr? Are you really comparing the two? What has the former done to AT ALL compare with the latter? Oh, he's black. It has nothing to do with actual accomplishments or anything. King spoke with soaring rhetoric but backed it up with deeds. Barack Obama just talks big but really hasn't done anything memorable, OTHER THAN GIVE SPEECHES. I overhead some girl in my class last night saying how she wants to go to Columbia because that is where Obama went as an undergraduate. "That is a smart man." Maybe he is, but is he really the reason you want to go to a school? Would you want to go to Stanford because R. James Woolsey went there? And is Obama that smart? I'm not sure that he is: he thinks that the Berlin Wall fell because the "world stood as one." What world was that, Obama?.....Oh, it doesn't matter, you don't have to answer to anybody.

Let's put it this way: we are a week from electing the most left-wing candidate in the history of this country. For some of you, that is undoubtedly a good thing. For me, it's pretty horrible and scary. We're not talking Bill Clinton here. (Although, compared with Mr. Obama, Mr. Clinton was (and is) a political amateur). Obama has managed to pull the wool over so many people's eyes, and these people have become so narrow-minded and brainwashed that it is more or less futile to attempt to sway them. Name me one reason that Obama should impress me. He went to Columbia? A lot of people do. He went to Harvard Law? Impressive, but so did everyone in the United States government. He was a useless professor at the University of Chicago Law School who left nary a trail of any academic scholarship? I'm amazed. He was a left-wing state senator representing a left-wing district for the Illinois State Senate? Holy Mother of God, what more can you tell me? He opposed the Iraq War when it was "unpopular" to do so in a left-leaning, anti-war district? Wow, such political courage. He gave a speech at the 2004 DNC in Boston that was well-worded and sort of nice-sounding? OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD MY BRAIN HAS EXPLODED AND I NEED NEW UNDERPANTS OH MY GOD.

Here is a man who believes that it is a shame that the Supreme Court has not made it a priority to spread your wealth around. A) Not their responsibility, dipshit. They're a judiciary. B) Spreading wealth around - not good for anybody. I know that we need taxation to pay for indispensable goods and services provided for the government at the local, state, and federal level. But in the end, I work for myself and in the future (God willing) for my family, not for some federal bureaucrat in some cubicle in Washington so that he can give that hard-earned money to some dude who this bureaucrat feels should get it. It is hard to see how this is not socialistic, although I know this is a term that is thrown around waaaaaay too often. But, honestly, I don't like the idea. We are already taxed too much. Way too much. But let's become like Europe! With like 70% income tax. Not like their economies have been stagnant since forever or anything.

Bush is getting a ton of shit for what is happening with the economy right now. Bush has gotten and will continue to get shit for anything wrong in the world until he is six feet under. This financial crisis and all the ramifications stemming from it are not the fault of the Bush tax cuts though. Obama himself said that more taxes make no sense when in an economic rut, implicitly saying that higher taxes hinder growth. So what gives then, man? The top economic bracket already pays like 70% of taxes in this country and most people on the lower end of the scale don't pay anything. I understand wanting to help out the poor, but punishing people for their success is ridiculous and counterproductive. Why should anyone bust their ass to create and run a successful business, only for it to be taxed to holy hell? What planet am I on?

Oh, right. The one Obama is going to magically heal. I nearly forgot.