Two weeks from yesterday

After 20 months of pre-election gibberish...the actual moment is only 13 days away.

The problem is remembering 2000 and realizing that results can be deceptive. But the odds favor a non-repetitive experience because there was nothing like it in history so there's a good chance that 2000 was a freak of nature.

It's so odd that a strange result...resulted in a strange President.

Like...we didn't know something goofy was going to happen from allowing somebody to be President with 500,000 LESS votes than the guy who lost.

The ELECTORAL COLLEGE should have new entrance exams and a new campus and a new set of bi-laws and new fraternities and new sororities and new sports facilities and a new school newspaper and so on and so on....

13 days from now America has an opportunity to show the world that we are capable of great things...it might be only symbolic in nature but guess what.

PERCEPTION COUNTS

And since we are in a society where PERCEPTION might be everything and substance might be a silly sidebar...there's nothing wrong with creating the PERCEPTION that AMERICA is the land of ultimate opportunity for EVERY CITIZEN.

EVERY CITIZEN WHO IS BORN HERE HAS A CHANCE TO PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Of course it hasn't happened yet but if Senator Obama does win the election it will do more to elevate the status of American ideals than any single event in the last 60 years.

KICKING THE CRAP OUT OF GERMANY AND JAPAN DID A LOT FOR THE STATUS of AMERICA... but there were quite a few other players involved.

THIS ELECTION EXPERIENCE AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME IS AMERICA'S MOMENT....and it can stand up an bask in the sunlight of awareness or it can scrunch down behind a history of nothing really changes.

I'm excited but I'm also truly not confident in the American people...and I will be the first one to stand up and salute the American people if they have the balls to elect the more intelligent of the two candidates.

IT'S PRETTY OBVIOUS WHO THAT MIGHT BE....but then again...

...recent history has shown that intelligence is not the primary reason for selecting a President.

AND THAT SCARES ME.

How about you?

Michael Timothy McAlevey