we the people

in less than a month the nation will decide on it's new president. it's become a heated battle and sometimes it feels that it's a fight between good and evil. our country is spiraling out of control and we haven't even glimpsed the bottom. our money's no good, the economy is collapsing, we are in a war under false pretense's, we have lost trust in our political leaders and the rest of the world hates us. this administration is arrogant and bullyish. 8 years ago a lot of people saw this coming and we voted against, who i feel is, one of the most disillusioned men in america. however, we were outnumbered. 8 years ago i took one look at gw and saw disaster. he would be nothing but trouble and i was shocked that other people didn't see it. my gut told me then that he wasn't the right man for the job. then 4 years ago me and a lot of other people were out voted again. i was once again shocked that people couldn't see his real face. but as time goes on i can see that maybe, just maybe he has destroyed this nations trust in itself so badly that people will scream out for change.

once again this year i have decided to follow my gut one more time. i know that it may not be the best way to determine who i vote for but it's a feeling that i have come to believe in. i remember one time where i told someone that's how i vote and that person said "you can't vote based on that" well yeah i can. it's my right as an american to do so.

late last year i saw a commercial where obama was promoting the superbowl. and even though he was on the tv for a few seconds my gut told me that he was "the one" to be the next president. long before the primaries had even started. every time i see him i can't get that feeling out of my mind. for the first time i feel that someone speaks to me and for me. he has a believable quality. but do i feel he is completely trustworthy? uuhhh no. what i do feel is that he will lead the way for people other than upper class white men to become the leaders of our country. no chance for women. no chance for hispanics, no chance for asians, no chance for people with a different belief other than christianity will be able to lead us until the door has been opened. and i believe that obama is the key to opening that door. to break down the good ole boy network. will be be the best president? don't know. will he make choices for this country based on the voice of the rich? yeah probably. will he fixed our corrupt system? no. we are way beyond being fixed by one man and one administration. but he will set a precedence.

for 8 years i have been able to tell all those people, who now bitch and complain about the state of the nation, "you voted for him- TWICE" i would now like the opportunity to be responsible for electing someone who has the potential to be great. and in 4 years when things are still bad you can feel free to look at me and say "you voted for him" damn right i did.

close to home

the state is a buzz about the threats made by a mtsu student. and so they should. when i first heard about it yesterday i was proud of the fact that the school took the emails of “large-scale devastation” threats serious enough to cancel classes and secure the campus. as far as i could see, they had learned from the tragedy at virginia tech and shut it down. BUT THEN COMES THE BITCHING. it seems i have read the same article over and over again on different websites. but the comments have been caraaaaazy. in ‘the tennesean’ people are bringing race to their comments. some claim that this dumb ass boys threat were blown out of proportion. that the campus over-reacted. that of course the person who made these threats was black, because as we all know the prison’s are filled with black people and they are the only ones who commit crimes. are you freaking kidding me? the officials didn’t know who made the threats when they cancelled school. and it shouldn’t matter what color the boy was. what did matter was that his threats were serious enough to take action. some also say that the emails and notifications weren’t sent out fast enough or didn’t reach everyone. jesus h christ. when nobody dies. it’s a good day. the course taken wasn’t perfect but it worked-this time. and maybe after 1 scare under their belt it will work great the next time.
when i read the dnj, the comments were thankful that a potential crisis was averted. yeah because we live here. we go to mtsu or know someone who does and it would be a bad day indeed if the school had ignored the possiblity of threat. cause god knows that mtsu can be screwed up with a lot of things.

so the way i see it, we are dealing with boy who had a bad decision day and decided that if he sent some threatening emails he could get out of midterms. (yeah like that could happen, if not today then another. you don’t get out of mid-terms) or he wasn’t right in the head. either way he made a bad choice and should have to pay for that bad choice. or it could be a cry for help. whatever. but it could have been. if the boy had really wanted to hurt someone he wasn’t going to announce it. he would have just done it and we would be dealing with a huge loss. theatening people with death is just not the way to go. and he could be black, white, yellow, purple or chartreuse and i would still feel the same way. there needs to be huge consequences and he needs to pay for his actions. because we all know that there are going to be other crazy kids out there who think that by doing something similar that they will be able to get out of a problem.

cause some people are always trying to blame their problems on someone else. but that's a whole 'nother rant