Georgia on Our Minds

There's more than enough hypocracy to go around on this one. Russia uses military force to defend the right of self determination of Abkhasia and South Ossetia just a few years after it used military force to crush the life out of Chechnya. Rice recently said that military force is "not the way to deal in the 21st century". Duh what? By my count, the score for countries bombed, invaded or occupied in the last twenty years is: U.S. 6 and Russia 2. I find it rather disturbing that she could say this with a straight face and not get lambasted by either the media or the opposition party.

Voting by Principle

I have always tried to vote for the person I thought would do the best job in the office at stake. This is without regard for party or chances to win. This has frequently led me to vote for candidates I knew had no chance of winning. I did this last May and I expect it will happen again in November. One thing I will never do is vote for the lesser of two evils. Because, as should be obvious, the lesser of two evils is still evil.

Please don't vote for a candidate just because he will drag the Country to perdition a little slower than the other guy.