Getting political. Part 2

"Silence gives consent." - Canon Law

In my attempt to move beyond my disillusionment with the current political system and hopefully determine a candidate to vote for in November I have been striving to watch the news every weekday morning. I believe it is important to be an informed citizin and to vote in elections. Yet I struggle feeling like I will be forced to vote for the lesser of two evils instead of voting for a candidate I feel good about. I normally do not have the patience to watch the news but I have found that if I watch the news while I am working out in the morning I can get a good half hour of news in.

One of my goals is to not watch just one news station. I try to flip between two or three stations each morning. I have also been watching both local news stations as well as national programs like Today and Good Morning America. Hopefully this will give me a more balanced view of the news. The main topics on newstations the past few weeks has been the presidential campaign and the current economic situation.

I continue to be unimpressed as I listen to our two main presidential candidates and other politicians. All Republicans do is criticize Democrats and talk up John McCain and all Democrats do is criticize Republicans and talk up Barak Obama. I also remained smug when I heard both McCain and Obama talk about how bad of an idea the economic bailout would be and then 10 days later both had changed their tunes. My impression is that both candidates will say whatever they think voters want to hear. I do not feel a lot of integrity with either candidate.

I plan to watch the vice-presidential debates tonight on TV.