The best way to cast your vote, other than actually casting your vote, is to purchase a Obama or McCain beer from the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company.

Vote with your liver! 

Homer tries to vote for Obama

Family Guy does the John McCain experience

Southpark - The Snuke

Oh wait nevermind I forgot the creators of SouthPark are too cheap to let us watch video clips for free on Youtube.  They’re like the Metallica of the cartoon world.

As Al Gore can attest to the only thing that matters in Presidential Elections is the electoral vote.  Ignore popular polls as they don’t mean jack.  Contrary to popular belief we are NOT a democracy, we are a Republic, we do not directly elect our President. Our Federal electoral college system was put in place to give smaller states some say and cloat in the process of electing our “leader.”  Now that we’re aware that we don’t live in a direct democracy let’s examine who is really winning this election.

As it stands now Barack Obama has a slight electoral lead over John McCain but the coming debates, the financial crisis and any unforseen swift boat like attacks against either candidate can quickly change the landscape of this lead as 18% of current voters are undecided or willing to change their vote.

So who’s going to win?

“Eight states that are still considered tossups: perennial powerhouses Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, Western targets Colorado and Nevada, Wisconsin in the Midwest, traditional swing state New Hampshire and newly competitive Virginia.”  Other possible toss up states include, “Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa and New Mexico are currently leaning toward Obama, while Indiana, Missouri and North Carolina are leaning toward McCain.

Here’s a graphical breakdown of how the race is currently trending.

Ok, so we really don’t know who is winning, yet.  Stay tuned.

Obama’s stance on “unconditional” negotiations with Iran is not making the democratic nominee any friends in Europe.  Obama has already backed off his initial statements early in the campaign cycle when he accounced, “that he’d seek unconditional talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Later, he changed that to talks with “appropriate Iranian leaders” and tried to skirt the “unconditional” bit of his pledge by saying that some “preparatory work” might be needed before he’d sit with an Iranian interlocutor.”

Obama’s impulsive foreign policy stance with Iran is having the effect of pulling the proverbial rug out from under the feet of the European leaders who have been working with the current administration to put up a unified front against Iran’s goals enriching uranium.  Obama’s bold stance of “dropping a unanimous Security Council condition would simply be interpreted by Iran and America’s allies as unconditional surrender and America’s friends would view this as confirmation of America’s basic unreliability,” Heisbourg, one of Europe’s leading strategic analysts, told The Washington Post - “a hell of a way to start a presidential term.”

So is this another issue that Obama will flip flop on or will he stay the course?  Going it alone has obviously proven disasterous for the Bush Administration which is why after several years of failing in foreign policy arena, with “rogue” nations, they decided to work with our allies and achieve a consesus before moving forward.  If Obama becomes President I hope he does the same.

Is going out on our own, alone, the kind of “Change” we’d “Hoped” for? 

Obama reverses pledge to take public funds as he opts out of public campaign finance funds.  He’s definitely “Changing” his position.  At least he’s consistent in his themes.

I wonder what else he’ll decide to change his mind on if he becomes President.

Almost to Friday.  Hang tough.

Vitamins are bad for you? 

If you didn’t catch SouthPark last night.  It’s definitely worth a look!

Students getting cash for passing AP tests.  This is odd.  So now if youpass the High School AP tests you don’t have to take that Freshman level class in college thus saving you not only the time that the class would have taken up but also the money the class would have cost (this is called opportunity cost).  So why are we paying students to be students?  If this goes through the State of California owes me a few hundred.

Facebook fatigue? I am still wiped out from MySpace.

In case you’re unaware of proper protocol.

You hit an officer with a baseball bat = you get shot = you die.

Redneck SixFlags.

Anybody else think it was a conflict of interest that an ex-Clinton staffer,current smurf, George Stephanwhatever was moderating the debate?  Obama clearly lost the debate and looked particularly bad doing it.  Bottom line he couldn’t answer straight questions.   Americans by and large are tired of this sort of political maneuvering and double talk.  The last two administrations have been rife with it.  Aside from all that what was with all the close ups of Chelsea Clinton? Seems biased to me.  I counted over 8 close ups.

This “turning of the tide” is going to be key for a McCain victory.  He is going to need to win back a lot of disenfranchised Republicans.

Funny Toilet Signs from around the world.