It’s finally that time of the election season when politics seem extra ridiculous to me. There really isn’t too much progress being made in the nomination process – the next primary isn’t for another 33 days – so the news outlets are struggling to make stories and create controversy with every topic, going as low as to saying Obama is not patriotic because he doesn’t wear an American Flag lapel pin.
I agree with Dave Gergen, a Republican political analyst, who said, “I don’t think an election should be determined by if a man wears a pin or not,” while speaking on CNN last night. An election shouldn’t be decided on petty little things that in the big picture have no relevance to the actual issues that should be focused on.
It’s nice to see that the candidates themselves feel the same way, and that even they need, and take, breaks from politics every once in a while, even in the middle of a heated nomination process.
On the same show as Gergen, Anderson Cooper 360, a clip aired of Cooper spending a full day with Obama, from a rally in the morning in North Carolina, on a flight to West Virginia and a rally later that night. Cooper stated he was surprised to see Obama working so hard on the plane, as he sometimes takes the time on the flight to rest. When Cooper approached Obama to see what he was working on, he found out all of the hard work was going toward Obama picking his bracket for the NCAA tournament.
As I mentioned, it’s nice to see that the candidates need a break too, and also helps you realize that these aren’t just political machines who are running for president, they are actual people who do the same stuff as you or I would do.
It’s a pretty decent bracket overall. I think Obama is a little crazy for putting Kansas, a team that has been upset in the first or second round in the last two years, in the final four. I have the same title game as he does, except I have UCLA beating UNC in the final.
