In the following days a human being will emerge who will lead this country… into further craptastics.

It is clear that no candidate has absolutely any experience in all of the trappings required to rule a country.  A President must be able to make decisions on a wide variety of issues ranging from domestic, to foreign, to constitutional - and there doesn’t seem to be a single contender that has what it takes to conquer all of these issues.

Let’s meet the contenders:

Hillary Clinton

She is headstrong and is a purportedly excellent manager.  But her inability to take her headstongedness to the finish line has reared it’s head before.  When she was campaigning for her and former President Bill Clinton’s health-care policy while she was First Lady, Hillary was unable to stay above the fray of politics throughout the campaign.  In the end she abandoned the project due to overwhelming health-care/insurance industry influence, influence that eventually led to donations to her campaign for Senate from that same industry.  Maybe she has learned her lesson, to not back down, but if her history on this or other issues throughout her time on the political stage is any indication, she may have learned her lesson but can’t seem to show for it.

Hillary Clinton recently brought up her conversation she had with her husband when she lobbied him to intervene in the Rwandan genocide.  Former President Bill Clinton said if he would have listened to her then maybe he could of saved some of those Rwandans, however the way I take it, if Hillary Clinton would of really put her foot down she could of saved those Rwandans just the same.

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Barack Obama

Obama is independent minded and keeps his party affiliation in the back of his mind.  He has some far flung ideas, but those normal ideas we’ve supposedly been working with for the last 8 years hasn’t seem to work out that great.  If we need this revolutionary, or I’d like to say “sane thinking,” then that’s who we’ll or should I say Iowa will vote for.

Barack’s problem however, is that he doesn’t connect with any one point of the his parties base.  His leaderships skills are not exactly presented easily for everyone to see, but if one were to examine them you would find Obama is an intelligent guy.  On the experience level, he doesn’t have much but if one were to say Hillary had more, then they would have to explain to me how being a wife for 8 years qualifies as experience - no matter how many trips you took.

Hopefully he will have a strong showing those “indie voters,” in Iowa.

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John Edwards

Really who wouldn’t vote for this pretty, shiny faced, white guy. That’s probably the only reason he is up in the polls, that and maybe he tells you what you like to hear. But like Romney, Edwards is a businessman, and a I don’t really like businessmen for President, I don’t usually see them as having America’s best interests at heart.

Earlier I heard him speaking to a crowd in Iowa about how he would get our troops out of Iraq immediately, I mean really are we still walking around being this stupid?

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For Biden, Richardson, and the rest - the race is pretty much over, and why your still in the race I couldn’t tell you.  I could be wrong and maybe one of you folks will show up nicely in the Caucasus but I doubt any will get above the 15% cutoff.

On the Republican side of the Force:

Mike Huckabee

A clever guy who has some pretty nicely quipped comments.  But apart from that he could rightly harken the downfall of the Republican Party.  His views are religiously made (and religiously not being used in the adjective form), he doesn’t connect with even 25% of the entire 300 million plus strong American populace, and finally he knows pretty much nothing about the world.

Huckabee strikes me as the kind of guy who would be a nice uncle but probably couldn’t tell you where Iraq is on a map.  Of all things, I do have to commend him on his weight loss, I mean boy if he looked like he did before he would have absolutely no chance at the presidency.

Finally based on his inability/forgetfulness or at least perceived thereof I wouldn’t vote for this guy.  At on point he counted two former diplomats among his advisers, those diplomats later said that they were or have no plans to be his advisor.
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Mitt Romney

The millionaire businessman, former governor, and one time head of the Winter Olympic committee - Romney is a natural leader. Apart from that he wraps his hands around the Republican base is if he is holding his own newborn. Romney is one of the most unfavorable candidates nationally and I doubt he would have the ability to win over whoever may be the Democratic choice; that being said he might have a chance in a three way race but, again highly unlikely.

Furthermore the Romney camp has been churning out negativism from the beginning and that doesn’t sit well with the middle of the road people, or rather a large portion of the populace. Good luck to him, but by his base wooing and complete rejection of moderates he stands out a complete twin of George Bush, and we don’t need any more of that.
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Giuliani and McCain are two candidates who may surprise a lot of people in the Primaries. Giuliani for one is doing very well in the national campaign that he is conducting, apart from the Iowa/New Hampshire campaign the other candidates are going about. The question is however, will the all to assuredly momentum that any of the other candidates will garner after Iowa/New Hampshire, come up and hurt Giuliani’s standing come Super-duper Tuesday.

McCain on the other hand might make a nice showing in the early primaries, but his campaign still seems sketchy to me and he is severely detached from the Republican base. Till now he has been riding the wave moderates and independents had created for him, but with Barack Obama, and maybe even Ron Paul, who knows how many indies will show up to vote for McCain (if even allowed to vote).

Finally America’s favourite obstetrician, Ron Paul. If somebody, say me, wanted to completely destroy the American Government then they, again me, would vote for Ron Paul. The only reason I would vote for him is because maybe we need a complete destruction of the American Government to bring about any significant change to our country, wake the citizenry up. Ron Paul may surprise a lot of people in these primaries, but I don’t think he will get above the needed 15% to be viable in Iowa, and I don’t think he can somehow surpass McCain in New Hampshire. With all his money he is very liable to stay in the primary race till the bitter end… and there he may find light (and therein maybe some hope) at the end of the tunnel, but most likely it will be the lights of an oncoming train.

Good Luck to all those brave Iowans who get to venture out to Caucus in those subzero temperatures and decide the fate of the free world, tomorrow.