District Deliberations: And Another Two Bite The Dust

Today, after losing tremendously after spending the most in Florida, Rudy Giuliani has resigned himself from the presidential race. This really doesn’t come as a surprise considering he was finishing behind (already) presidential dropout Fred Thompson. What is more shocking (not really) is that Democratic Bronze Medalist in most of the primaries, John Edwards is also expected to announce that he will drop his bid for the nomination later today. The difference between these two, disregarding both their audacity in maintaining their bid for presidency this far, is that Giuliani has endorsed McCain for president, whereas Edwards has not endorsed anyone, and probably won’t until Obama makes him his Vice-Presidential candidate. So, to all of those waiting for the remaining nominations, the choices are down to President McCain, President Obama, President Clinton, President Romney, President Paul (o0o0o alliterative!) or President Huckabee in no particular order (yeah, right Huckabee and Paul don't have a chance). But basically what this means now, is that the presidential race just got a bit more convoluted, and I just became that much less likely to vote. That and (and I don’t want to paraphrase South Park here but have to) the race has just narrowed itself down to either the choice of A) a giant douche, or B) a Turd Sandwich (yet again). I don’t want to predict bad things, now, but I feel like whomever the next president is, their legacy will be similar to Ike Eisenhower / Jimmy Carter, and the next president will be scapegoated until the next JFK / Reagan. So at least that’s something to look forward to, no?

Shout out to Vatican City today. Salve, meum amicum! Also Jessica Biel!

Why Evangelicals and Mormons (uber religious types) shouldn't run for president.

Two days ago, Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee appeared on MSNBC and discussed how he wants to change the country. The most remarkable of his comments was,

“I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view.”

So much for that whole concept of separating Church and State. If this wasn’t enough, a friend of mine brought up another Republican hopeful’s comments. Mitt Romney has made it clear that he would never have a Moslem in his cabinet because he could not find a position that a Moslem would be a good fit. What the fuck? We’re not matching square pegs and round holes here Mr. Romney. In case you didn’t notice, Moslems are people too, and while nobody is forcing you to put a Moslem in your cabinet, don’t be such a narrow-minded ass! Also, where does this pretty haired jackass get off labeling people of the most prominent religion on the planet as security threats (I will hit anyone who says 9-11, that’s like saying all Catholics are Papists) over his religion, which the jury’s still out on whether or not it’s a cult. I’m not trying to fight bigotry with bigotry here, but come on. I’ll give anyone the benefit of the doubt, but there are reasons why modern western nations try to have a separation of church and state. Moreover, I liked how Huckabee would originally use his faith as a moral code in which to follow. He did well with that. It showed he had a moral sense to him, but wasn’t going to let his hickey backwoods Baptist crap get take over. And then it did. I’m not advocating that everyone be secular humanists or deists here, but I feel like these guys have proven that they are far too skewed to be competent leaders. What happened to the JFK attitude of “I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.” You don’t need to be super religious to have a moral compass, fucking republicans. Also, fuck Tom Cruise.