Obama - Biden

As you know, I have supported the died in the Wool Consitutionalist, Ron Paul even though I think his ideals are more Utopian than realistic when juxtaposed against the state of hubris choked modern America. I wrote in Dr. Paul's name in 2004 after voting for GWB in 2000 (or was I voting against Gore?) and have been thinking along the lines of once again casting my usual 'protest' vote in '08. Ron Paul himself is an ideal and it is heartening to see so many people activated by his campaign.

The USA is a country supposedly of and for the people and a theme of my writing - from an economic standpoint as I really am not overly political - has been that it is the PEOPLE who are mostly responsible for the current state of affairs because the people as a collective entity have become slovenly and they get the government they deserve. I don't believe there one day came an evil government that set out to deceive and exploit the people.

To make a long story short, I love that an honest man like Ron Paul - who I have been following since 2002 along with David Walker - has done so much good. I love that Mr. Walker has left his post as top cop at the GAO in order to more effectively help fix this financial mess he saw us getting into long before probably everyone in government save Dr. Paul. But I have rarely heard Joe Biden say something I disagree with (at least in my casual listening) and Obama's selection of him for Veep tells me that Barrack is a good manager who understands his limitations and maybe just maybe would run an administration that truly delegates in its decision making.

The middle class is being blown up under our current economic system. Something has got to be done and change needs to happen. Up to this point I was unable to define what change means from Obama's perspective. But I look forward to learning more about both Obama and Biden going forward and may actually cast a vote this year instead the usual protest.

We now return to our regularly scheduled program as the financial blogger who is really not very sophisticated politically puts down the megaphone, goes back to twittling his charts and enjoys a stellar weekend in sunny New England. ;-)