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Back in the ‘olden days’, it was a time to get on your cruiser, pick up your chick and head off to the local drag race that usually ended up with some fiery crash over a cliff. Afterwards the gang would all hang out at some local burger joint with their cars running all night long and not a care in the world about burning up that oil. Ok, maybe I watch too many movies, but you get the idea.

Now, fast forward a few decades, and here we are in a situation where the best summer vacation is sitting in your house with the blinds closed hoping Iranian soldiers don’t come marching down your street siphoning your $4/gallon gas from your cars while sprinkling magical terrorist powder everywhere. Obviously the Iran situation is just more hyperbole spread by the Bush administration so we can try to get into another war before he leaves office, but sadly the gas situation is real and it is hurting the pockets of Americans.

How can we correct the situation? Is there even a solution? I mean other countries around the World have been paying higher gas prices for a while now, all while rolling their eyes at us complaining over our prices. Of course those countries don’t belong in the Middle East where their gas prices are so cheap they can fill up their tanks with change found under their seats.

And what about car companies? Where are they in this crisis? Why do they keep putting out vehicles with 25-35 mpg and act like we should sell all our property and rush right out to buy one? If they want to impress me, pump out a car with 100 mpg. I don’t need the power to be able to drive 175 mph, give me a large go-kart that reaches highway speeds and has the look / feel of a car and i’ll be happy.

Is that too much to ask? Does this post really make much sense? Am I that bored?

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Barring some miracle for the Clinton campaign, it’s set to be John McCain (aka Bush v2.0) vs Barack Obama for the 2008 presidential election. That is pretty much set in stone at this point, but the Clinton campaign keeps chugging on, as they have the right to do.

Now, i’m not going to be one of those people to say Mrs. Clinton should drop out of the race, in fact in her situation she’s pretty much stuck between a rock and a hard place, assuming she really cares about the democratic party winning this winter. I do think it’s historic seeing a female so close to being the nominee, and for her to quit before she’s eliminated will display a form of weakness towards her gender and her party.

Of course when a male drops out of a race before he’s officially eliminated, nobody thinks twice about it. However because Clinton is female (we think), gender seems to be taking a front seat to the more important issues this election. The war in Iraq, health care, the economy, etc. It’s pretty frustrating to anyone who cares about those issues to hear the gender issue come up almost daily, and many times from the Clinton campaign itself.

That said though, its’ pretty much a sure thing that she won’t be able to win against Obama at this point. She’s behind in almost every important category, and it would take a huge swing of the super-delegates for her to win the nominee. However, i’m not sure if she understands it or not, but most people respect the election process and for something like this to happen, it’s going to take away all the strides this 2008 election have made. We currently have a black guy going against a female for the chance to run against a 150 year old man.

If all of the sudden the leading vote getter and delegate leader were to lose because a few people decide they don’t want Obama to win, that will be a massive blow to both the democratic party and democracy in general. Then not only will Clinton lose the hardcore Obama supporters who would be furious about that, they would also lose a big chunk of those like myself who would have supported Clinton had she won fairly. Therefor, should the super-delegates sway to Clinton because of electability reasons, that would defeat the purpose and she would no longer be electable.

Mrs. Clinton needs to drag this out until June and the last election, and then gracefully drop out and fully endorse Barack Obama.  That is the only way she can both appease her base, and not screw up the democratic party enough that Bush 2.0 ends up sneaking in causing this war to last for 100 more years.

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