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“Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.” – Albert Einstein on Gandhi

The quote is a little heavy, but it is never a bad idea to remind ourselves of one purpose we have – to make the world a better place now and in the future. I’m not sure we are doing that. We have created classes and factions, strife and struggle with disagreements and greed. We have created pollution, cellular changes, illness, and the diminishing of various species on our planet. Don’t get me wrong though, it is not all grim. Many people have and do follow righteous paths such as Gandhi’s. Some philosophers believe that we are in a new dawning as people are becoming more aware of their own consciousness, thus making the world a better place by living in a higher state of mind and not contributing to factions or pollution.

However, I am still skeptical of our paths, especially when our world leaders are bickering over “lipstick.” The GOP has turned Barak Obama into a schoolyard bully. McCain is now the guy who defends and rescues everyone in the schoolyard (America), one female VP at a time. This is not what I would call “change.”

So here we are, back to square one. The country has created huge factions. They include Republicans and Democrats, women and men, feminists and independents, pit bulls and hockey moms, and now the vain and the meek. The very people we are considering to lead our country are fighting over “lipstick.”

Funny enough, lipstick is exactly what will outlast this campaign and the next presidency without any question. Lipstick is made up of 60% oil and wax, 25% pigment and alcohol and 1% fragrance. Where is the rest? Depending on the manufacturing process, the remaining percentage can be made up of antioxidants and preservatives to keep the lipstick from getting rancid. (www.enotes.com/how-products-encyclopedia/lipstick).

So if we compare lipstick to our Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates, we can determine that there may not be enough antioxidants and/or preservatives among these four people to help us and our planet survive. McCain is 72, need I say more. Biden is a career politician and the most experienced, but no spring chicken. Obama would be the first black president and probably the most controversial. Last, Palin has absolutely no national or international experience.

Are we better off electing a tube of lipstick? Comments welcome!

What better to blog about this week than McCain’s vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin. Is this McCain’s attempt to “change Washington” because everyone knows he has not had enough time in the Senate to do that . . . Maybe he has been too busy campaigning?? Isn’t this Obama’s platform? Well I’m glad we got that straight. Now that everyone wants to change Washington, we have to now decide which dynamic duo is best fit for the job. Like many of us, you probably have not had time to read all the over dramatized crap of the press or the candidates websites. So I bequeath to you a few facts from each of the candidates’ websites and/or news clippings that I felt were legitimate. (It was hard to refrain from Wikipedia, but I did!)

Obama / Biden (The Oreo Feel Good team):

Obama is a young U.S. Senator from Chicago who spent years in the Illinois legislature. His parents are racially mixed, one a student from Kenya and one from middle America, Kansas. Obama was ultimately raised by his mother in Hawaii after his father returned to Kenya. He was an average student until he got involved in politics in college. After college, he worked for Christian churches; and after law school, turned down lucrative offers to work for a small firm and teach Constitutional law. As part of the Illinois legislature, Obama was a strong advocate for women’s issues.

Biden is a senior Senator from Delaware (1972) and was a single parent to his two remaining sons after a car accident took his wife and daughter. And like many parents, Biden was willing to give up his first senate election for his family. He is remarried and had a fourth child with his new wife. He served on the Senate Foreign Affairs committee with Obama and is up for re-election, which makes him available.

McCain / Palin (The Do-it-my-way or no-way Team):
McCain is a senior US Senator who started out as a US Representative in 1982. He is a proud Navy veteran, a POW (probably suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – how could you not!), and has been observed as very angry by President Bush’s former Chief of Staff. Although John McCain has seven children, we never hear about his first wife. Much of his time in the Senate has been spent on reform including lowering taxes and less government.

Now, here here are a few things you should know about Sarah Palin that people are already getting incorrect:

In 1984 she was not Miss Alaska, she was the RUNNER UP;
She is only 44, but yet older than John F. Kennedy when he ran for President;
She was the mayor of Wasilla, AK, population 9,780 according to the US Census in 2007, and was elected as the Governor of Alaska in 2007.
She is currently involved in a legislative investigation over the firing of an Alaskan State Trooper involved in a divorce from Palin’s sister and Alaska’s Public Safety Commissioner who was pressured to fire the State Trooper.
She is a member of the NRA
She has 5 children, and some of her fellow countrymen do not think she is ready to lead.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=a1uiw5Tqp4EM&refer=home