Howdy Howdy! Well break was dandy. I felt like I could separate myself from everything in Provo, both my educational pursuits and otherwise. HAHA I am watching the National Championship game right now, and I keep typing the wrong words (I tried to type economical instead of educational in the line above, I don't have any economic pursuits at all). Couple of things on my mind. So I really don't like Mitt Romney, I haven't conducted a full research of him by any means. He seems very swarmy to me. He switched on abortion, on the you tube debate I thought some of his answers were lame, and the thing that might bother me the most is that during his term as governor, gay marriages were legally issued, the first state to allow gay marriage, there are now two, and nine recognize marriages performed in Iowa and Massachusetts. Now Governor Romney spoke out against the form in which the ruling was brought down(a one vote majority descision by the Massachusetts highest court), however he spoke against gay marriage too late. In my opinion, he could have tried to prevent the issue from coming to the surface. In California, proposition 22 was passed reaffirming marriage as being between a man and a woman. Granted Massachusetts is a predominatly liberal state, who knows if the bill would have passed, California, another largely liberal state passed such a measure. I guess the bottom line is that I just don't think that I could vote for him, despite his religious affiliation. I have a hard problem with politics at this point in my life. I find it much easier to not vote at all, then to either a)vote for a large party candidate that I don't completely agree with, b) vote for an unorthodox candidate that I feel is closer to what I want but won't win, or c) what I did the last election I voted in, the California Governor recall, voted for someone I thought would be funny to have in office and that someone was Gary Coleman, who you should wikipedia right now if you don't know who he is. How do you get motivated to vote? How do you compromise your beliefs, by sometimes voting for someone whose stances are completely contrary to some of your own? I am by no means set on my political views if you could even call them that, and would enjoy feedback.
I was thinking about some things over break. I came up with the number one thing I don't want to ever have happen, get divorced late in life. So over break I had to split a lot of time with mom and dad, it wasn't that bad just pretty much doubled the time committments while I was at home, no big deal didn't really bother me at all. What did was how tough it has got to be for both my parents. My dad has a girlfriend it is kind of weird, his girlfriend has two kids that are 12 and 10 if I'm not mistaken, my mom still hasn't gone on a date. Either way it's weird, whether it is starting a new relationship late or being alone. I don't know who's life I would pick. I was wondering to, if you were say 50 and found yourself in a relationship that you weren't fulfilled in, would you stick it out our would you get a divorce that late in life... hmm
I am going to take marriage prep should be fun my firstday was good. Battery dying Night!
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I know what you mean about being disillusioned with politics. I am passionate about politics, but still in the end it often feels like I am just choosing the better of two evils.
Although I don't know what will get you excited about politics, I know what got me invested in these primaries. Cindy had me read Obama's A Call to Renewal speech he gave a year ago, and then I watched it a couple weeks ago with my family. While I don't agree with everything he stands for (it is impractical for me to hold out until there is someone that fits that bill), his speech (and recent ones) got me energized and excited. Most of all I am just excited that there is someone running that I feel is both electable and is capable of pulling us out of the mess this country is in. Now, that doesn't happen every election.
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