It’s become almost cliché to use the word “change” synonymously with the name Obama. He and his campaign have found tremendous success with their message that America simply cannot afford to have more of the same for another four to eight years. This message was partly what led to the Clinton campaign’s unpredictable downfall. History will remember her campaign as the antithesis to John McCain’s.

Before the Iowa primary, nobody could have predicted that Senator Clinton would have lost the bid to office to a seemingly novice nominee like Barack Obama. She ran with the message that she was the most qualified and most experienced candidate. However, her self-proclaimed experience did not give her the hindsight or even the serendipity to acknowledge the looming threat that Obama posed to her campaign.

Obama’s campaign had been thoughtfully planned for the long-run, as they rightfully knew that the Clinton campaign wouldn’t go down without a fight. Clinton’s campaign, on the other hand, expected a major victory on Super Tuesday assuring her bid as the Democratic nominee. When that victory failed to see the light of day, and her campaign was drained of most of its resources, only then did Clinton resort to Obama-bashing (Obama is all rhetoric and no willpower, to name one of many), which served to strengthen Obama’s argument that Senator Clinton represents the status quo of Washington.

Obama has not only proved to Clinton that he is every bit as experienced as he needs to be in order to run a country (if his handling of his campaign is any indication), but he has more importantly proved to the American population that his leadership skills are unparalleled as they come. The road to the general election will be much longer and more winding, but Obama’s eloquence, competence, and most importantly, his policies will allow him to lead our great nation back to its former glory.

May we end the war in Iraq, finish the war against Al Qaeda, regain our influence in the global arena, assert our moral authority on urgent issues like Global warming and genocide, and bring back the civil liberties that the founding fathers so desperately tried to institute. Can we do it?

I know it’s cliché by now, but I don’t care, I’m going to write it in bold capital letters anyway:

YES WE CAN!

The previous title of my blog was “Missak’s Unorthodox Blog full of random incoherent rambles that nobody wants to read.” I enjoyed writing the random rambles, but as it turns out, there’s not much of an audience that really cares about the different topics that only interest me. And thus, it wasn’t surprising that no one was reading them. However, all is not lost. 

Yes, my blog is nothing more than ash piled up on the surface of the Internet right now, but let me tell you something:  amazing things can happen in the last minute when all is lost.  Just like a phoenix, my blog will resurrect from the ashes into something beautiful, something sacred, and immortal. I will transition from writing random posts that attract to niche audiences, and begin writing to the mainstream by focusing on one very important and popular topic: Politics 2008.

I believe it would be a disservice to the American public, at large, if I do not contribute anything to this election like in 2004, a year in which I was too young, too naïve, and too stupid to contribute anything. This year, however, I’ve been sitting on the sidelines for the past year or so carefully observing every Republican and Democratic nominee to see what they bring to the table. I learned a lot about the American electoral process by following news stories and actively engaging in political forums. And now that we have presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees, it is time for me to make sure that what happened in 2004 doesn’t happen again.

Indeed, just like John McCain, I will never give up on my unwavering commitment to serve the American population. And hopefully, my dedication will pay off just like it paid off for McCain…by some divine incomprehensible miracle. After winning only ONE primary in New Hampshire in January of 2008, Senator McCain was able to edge a victory over then Republican front-runner, Mit Romney. Quite an accomplishment when your campaign was on the brink of bankruptcy, in shambles, and in disarray.

In the coming months after that one victory, everything else fell in line: Giuliani and Romney drop out of the race, both expressing their unequivocal support for McCain, McCain begins to gain endorsements from countless newspapers and organizations, and in order to honor McCain’s “comeback,” as many journalists and political correspondents called it, Time magazine published this front-cover article:

I haven’t seen so much positivity in our media since the initial aftermath of the war in Iraq. Don’t remember? Here’s a little reminder:

We live in a great country. I only state the obvious because my blogs may at times be full of cynicism and pessimism, but I’d like my readers to realize that I am proud to be an American, as I am proud to have the right to freedom of speech. I am not proud of what has happened to our country in the past eight years, however. We have been forced to give up some of our rights in the name of national security. We have been deceived by our Supreme Court as they overturned the majority vote in the name of “justice.” And most importantly, we have been brainwashed to think and act a certain way in the name of fear.

This is not the America that our founding fathers fought so hard to protect. I fear that if McCain were to win, we would be subjected to the same exact hypocrisy and deception that we have become accustom to over the past eight years. And yet, the fact that we have become accustom to the fear is precisely why he has a chance at winning. It is our job, America, to wake up and not fall for the lies, the hypocrisy, and most of all, the fear.

I’m going to try my best to update my blog every Friday. Please keep in mind that I am a busy University student (yes, I’m taking summer classes) and have a job, so it’s sometimes difficult to find the time to write. But I will update as frequently as I can, and the more you comment, the more time I will invest. It’s up to you to make sure that this blog doesn’t have to resurrect into a gaming blog, which isn’t as controversial or as fun to write about.