president paul?

i find it pretty ironic that i call dc home yet i have an overt aversion to politics. honestly, i could care less if you work on the "hill" - i'm sure all you do is pour coffee and make copies for the one to many corrupt politicians that make our laws. ugh, yes, i'm a cynic. i hold politicians right there up with real estate agents, in regard to my trust in their motives - not very high.

however, with 2008 just around the corner and the presidential race in full swing i can't help but start to pay attention. i believe firmly the duties of a citizenship and the importance of voting. i often getting annoyed by those who constantly complain about the state of our country yet didn't bother to vote in the last election. hello!! you basically forfeited your oratory soapbox when you failed to participate in our electoral process. even if it means choosing the lesser of two evils, to vote is to have a say.

i'm not ashamed to say that in the last 2 presidential elections, i cast my vote for dubya. i mean, when you compare him to his last democratic competitors (at least their party line mascot was appropriate), i would say i didn't have much of a choice. but over the past 8 years, i have become increasingly disappointed in the republican party as they blunder opportunities for progress meanwhile the democrats continue to act like jackasses. where is our country heading under such incompetent leadership??!

like i said, i'm not much for the political scene, but i have become more and more interested our country's economic plights. between wall street, the housing markets, rise in health care costs, devaluation of the dollar....i could go on...it's rather disturbing that not more political attention has been focused on such hot topics. not to mention this huge deficit we have dug ourselves into by over-expanding our already big government, all the while increasing taxes. yikes! as i was reading through an econ blog the other day, i came across this great youtube clip of representative ron paul (r-texas), grilling the fed on their seemingly futile efforts.



i was so impressed that i started to actually look at paul's campaign website and read his more libertarian platforms. wow - how come we don't hear of this guy as much as the other republican front runners...romney, mccain, guilani....move over! i was intrigued to find dr. paul had a very visionary approach to many of our nations deepest woes while going to back to core of what country was founded on 231 years ago - the constitution. imagine that! as a practicing medical physician with 10 terms of congressional experience under his belt, i was certainly drawn to this citizen-statesman who seems so different than all the rest.

now i'm not quite sure i'm fully committed to join his "rEVOLution," but he certainly has my attention as a glimmer of hope in an answer for america. we shall see...