Election Day 2008 - Unexcited

I don't recall an election day where I have been more uninterested in the election this year...which was likely the same feeling 4 years ago.  What was different this year was that Ron Paul, a candidate that I would have voted for, actually seemed like he had a legitimate chance to win...but of course the major media squelched Ron Paul and the only choices Americans get is what version of more of the same do you want?

But I still get up and go to the polls and cast my vote like I do every election day but it just doesn't seem very worthwhile when I know that my vote will literally not count for jack shit...but that's the American way.

I'm not sure if I had noticed it before after Bush won the last 2 elections, but I most certainly have noticed it after this past election and that is the 'snobbishness' of know Democrats.  I had just briefly flipped to MSNBC the day after the election to see how the anti-Fox news channel was reacting to the Obama victory and to say that they were elated was an understatement.  Keith Oberman was literally yelling taunts at conservative show hosts and writers ... at one time I had respect for Oberman but after seeing that pathetic display and clearly displaying his open bias and disdain towards those that he doesn't agree with removed any respect I had for him.  For a political party that tries to portray itself as the party for the lower-class and use class-envy as part of their party's attack process, come off as seeing themselves as 'superior' to others right now.

Having not voted for Obama (or McCain) I will hold them accountable to what the media essentially promoted what will happen if Obama would be elected...that being the war in Iraq and Afghanistan should be over by the end of 2009, 95% of all American tax payers will get their taxes cut and fuel and energy costs will be reduced.  

If McCain was elected, I would be expecting nothing to change because that was essentially how they were sold to us... McCain was a vote for more of the same, whereas Obama was a vote for change (such as the ones described above) and since that is how he was sold, I expect him to deliver ... but of course I know he won't and is just a typical lying politician... how long will it take until Obama has to admit that 95% of Americans won't be getting their taxes cut and more likely have them increased...