Did you catch the Obama acceptance spectacle?   Wow what a production.  From what I heard it had more viewers that the opening of the 2008 Summer Olympics.   Not bad.  That is marketing at its finest.
 
I was watching because I wanted to hear straight from the candidates mouth, just how exactly he wanted to change government and naturally, what's in it for me.
 
Were you satisfied with that generations old, standard political, whimpy drivel?   My God.  What is new about we are going to save the huddled masses, the republicans are bad, all the problems in the world are because of the other party?  
 
The only real change was Obama's delivery,  spoken like a true Harvard lawyer trying to convince a jury of the great unwashed that he is just like us.  I will give him that, he can talk the talk.
 
I do want a change.   I want real change.  But not the kind of change a liberal socialist will bring. 
 
I want a roll back. 

• I want a repeal of the 17th Amendment and a return to the representative republic we once were.
• I want a repeal of the 16th Amendment and an honest look at how the amendment was put into law without ratification
• I want a smaller federal government based on Federalist principles.

More than anything, I want a serious change in the political process.   Our leaders, whether it be Representatives, Senators, school board officials, or whatever, ARE NOT elected on merit.  Our leadership is a product, like diapers, or fertilizer that is sold by high dollar, Madison Avenue campaigns. 
 
Every imaginable device from the 30-second sound bite to the slick Obama production is designed for one thing and one thing only . . .  to sway people away from doing their own research.  It is designed to make them feel satisfied that they can possibly know enough to elect the leaders of the greatest country in the world without taking any initiative on their own to learn about the candidates. 
 
Are you satisfied that you know enough about Obama or Mccain based on what you read in the headlines, hear in blips on the news, or consume in sound bites.  If you are, do the country a favor, stay the hell out of the voting booth.