by Jared Chamberlain

Created on: April 22, 2008

To be quite honest, I am exhausted. Or rather, my ears have been inundated by the exhausted stories about this year's presidential candidates. Hey, Al Gore, would you please invent the time machine so we can go back to the Iowa caucus and begin anew? Thanks. Moving on. The excitement that once flowed within me (about 3 months ago) like the freshly rushing river after Winter has melted into Spring is barely noticeable now, more like the constant drip from the faucet that never quite seems to stop no matter which direction or how hard you turn the handle. What was once an electric presidential race with scores of candidates on either side of the aisle has turned into a mud-slinging contest on one side and naptime on the other. And the result? Another round of less-than-stellar candidates. However, this year takes on a new dimension, one that is both disturbing, yet predictable.

On one side, there are two candidates, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who are calling for change. Indeed, change we can believe in. These are two candidates who seem to be willing to trade our great nation for power by giving the people everything they could ever imagine. I believe they call that Socialism. The only difference between these two candidates, at least on policy, is that one hates NAFTA more than the other. They are still arguing over which one of them it is. This is not the disturbing part. Obama's campaign has admitted that he and domestic terrorist William Ayers of the Weather Underground have a "friendly" relationship and there are allegations that Ayers has even donated money to the campaign. Clinton made no bones about kicking Corporate America while it's down when she blithered to UAW workers at an Ohio GM plant about how she is going to raise taxes on corporations and make sure people get paid more. So you are going to raise their taxes and at the same time demand they pay their workers more? I'd like to see how that works. Wait, I take that back.

Alas, I still have not reached the disturbing part. That lies in the fact that, once again, the masses are being duped. And if they're not being duped, then they just don't care about -or worse, they like - what is happening to our nation. One candidate has a cult following of people who wave their signs for change and hope, but have no idea what this coming change embodies or what to hope for. The other side consists of people who have not developed a twitch at the sound of the word "Clinton" (or "Hillrod" as she recently

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