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Hoo-RAH! It’s an election year, and we all know what that means.

We’ve got some real meat going on the grill in this one too, I mean hell, we’ve got black, white, women, septuagenarians, and a veritable cornucopia of “sensitive touchy feely” issues sure to entertain and entangle. Let’s be optimistic, I suppose. Its early going yet election wise even though it seems like there has been no other news of note for the past 18 months. We’ve still got two conventions yet to come folks (DNC: 8/25-28 Denver & RNC: 9/1-4 Minneapolis-St. Paul) and I’m almost sure someone is going to make a big enough stink about something to result in some good ole fashioned excessive force, even if its only in the name of the great god that is “Homeland Security”. All we need is a good meet-up of some pissed-off, over charged cops and some misguided Nuevo-hippie skulls! Let if fly man, let it fly! Just to see our society finally inspired enough to express the necessary energy to foment change would make a 68-08 correlation almost acceptable. Almost. I mean, Herr Daly’s boys were just a little on the heavy handed side and modern U.S. culture couldn’t even begin to bear the brunt of that kind of legally sanctioned over-indulgence. But we could try, right? In an over indulged, over medicated and over exposed society such as ours, we damn well better try! We should all be pretty pissed off right about now, with the oil and all the related and sundry effects, the mortgage issues, the food issues. Were spoiled for choice, really, as to what we can get irate about. So what do we pick? Or more accurately, what is picked for us? Take a quick headline scan…Wright? Right! With all the issues to focus on, the media bait and switch is in effect again! Don’t buy it friends, don’t plunk down the proverbial plugged nickel for this tripe!. Not for a second! Let it go back down into the political trick bag from whence it came and turn back to the hearts of the matter. If one were of a, for want of a better term, conspitorial mind, one might even suppose Ole Wrighty was thrust out onto the stage as yet another tool in an already rather nasty little school yard fight. You might very well think that perhaps Dear Hillary or the Astute Sen. McCain put this one out to just, as they say, put a little stick about. You might very well think that. I couldn’t possibly comment. As I said, let’s be hopeful and optimistic. It can only go one way from here. Ay, that’s the rub!

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