Obama, McCain, Kanye West, Jesus

I was getting ready for bed and had already turned off my computer for the night when it hit me why I don’t care anything about Obama and McCain but feel connected with Kanye West or Jesus.  

Look at it this way.  Obama and McCain are out there struggling to sell themselves to you by any means.  They are trying to find that one hand hold on you and they will grab on and never let go.  For Obama it’s lowering taxes for the middle class, for McCain it’s energy indepence or whatever.  It’s not really important to the point of this post or to me.  And that is the point.  Their messages are so forced, that I can not relate to them.  I don’t really care, it is of little consequence.

Sure I will be met with some annoyances later in life–taxes, laws, other policies that I will have to abide by.  But it is a pitance compared to the influence the other two men have on me, and will continue to have on me.  Why is it they have such an influence you ask?  It’s because I can actually relate to them.  They aren’t out their ruthlessly promoting themselves, their message brings followers.  

Look at these quotes:

“Everything I’m not made me everything I am.” - Kanye West from his song “Everything I Am”

“What He has seen and heard, of that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.” - Jesus from John 3:22

Kanye’s can be looked at from a stand point of less is more.  He didn’t need to promote himself once his message was out there.  People just agreed with it and boom, he rocketed up the charts and now has an epic following.

The passage Jesus said from John 3, I like because it can be applied to politics of today.  Obama and McCain are just rehashing what they have seen and heard.  They try to force what they think the public wants into their message and hope they get some votes.  The problem is that everyone knows that not all the “change” they speak of will be acted upon.

For a message to be good, it needs to be simple and move people on the most primative level.  Politics will never be that, and I for one can’t relate.

Pennsylvania Primary

Being a Pennsylvania resident over the age of eighteen, I could have voted in Tuesday’s primary.  However, there seemed to be little point in doing so.  The evening before the primary, I began flipping through the voters guide.  A few minutes of reading showed me that in my district there was virtually no one to vote for.  Besides the lack of people up for election in my district, I am registered as a Republican.  I mean who am I going to vote for?  McCain was really the only option; well him or Ron Paul.  Personally, I know very little about where McCain stands on any issues, and from what I have seen, Ron Paul would not make a good president.

I guess what I am saying, is that it would have been a waste of time for me to vote.  Not only because I have no choices, but because I do not know about McCain’s stance on politics.  I feel that this years election is going to be less of a race between Democrats and Republicans, and more of a race between Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.  I don’t know that either one of them will pull out of the race when the Democrats give a nomination.  We will have to wait and see.

In the mean time, look at this: