Results of the 2012 election of the President of the United States of America

I honestly am not completely certain either candidate was any less horrible for us than the other.  However, regardless of our personal opinions, our country was deliberately created with checks and balances so it remains very unlikely that anything, radical or otherwise, is going to happen for at least 2 more years.

For the first time ever my presidential vote was cast for a member of one of the 2 big political parties in this country.  I expect this will also be the last time I do that.

The most important thing, however, is not who won.  It's that the election happened.  Seeing as there's to be no real change, Inauguration in January is relatively meaningless.  We have to wait 4 more years for the even more important thing to happen, a peaceful hand off of power.

President Obama is an ideologue with whom I disagree fundamentally.  However he is idealistic and honest.  He has executed on his stated plans as well as can be expected, and while the results have been pretty much as lack-luster as I've expected, he stays the course.  Why he believes he's the only one with a valid idea I really don't know.  Governor Romney is a pragmatist who stated ideal I have some slightly greater affinity to than those of President Obama.  But he's a pragmatist, and pragmatism in foreign affairs is why our foreign relations have suffered.

I really don't believe the Arab masses hate Americans for our wealth.  If that were the case they'd focus their energies much closer to home.  The wealth gap is a lot wider there.  I believe it's been our pragmatic support of the stability of dictators that's been the problem.  We need to cut that shit out.  President Obama, please, don't fall into the trap of pragmatism.  I believe I'm far better qualified to make decisions about my own life than you are, but I'd rather you keep trying to tell me what to do than continue your soft-handling of Iran and Syria.

Pick up the damned stick you were so eager to wave in Libya and at least even the odds in Syria.

Regardless of how you feel about the results of this years elections, remember we live in a Democratic Republic.  The Federal Government is supposed to protect us from the abuses of the state governments, and the State Governments are supposed to protect us from the abuses of the Federal Government.  We have local elections yearly.  We have national elections every 2 years, always picking Representatives, and 2/3 of the time picking our Senators.  Evaluate your personal beliefs.  What do you truly value?  Then evaluate the behavior of the candidates.  What do they truly value.  If your values and theirs aren't in alignment, it's time to look for a new candidate.  Maybe that new candidate is you.  But we have to abandon the apathy.  We have to stop trusting what these talking heads are saying, and start paying attention to what they're doing.

Tonight I announce my candidacy for the Office of the President of the United States.  I don't particularly want the job, but I'm sick of people who are either too stubborn to listen to others, or to pragmatic to predict, fucking things up.  Come 2016, prepare for the most real, and probably the most bleeped, campaign in history.