Turning Point for America: The Importance of the 2008 Election

The 2008 Presidential election is one that will determine whether or not America has learned from past voting mistakes. Those voting errors are the result of treating Presidential candidates more like products than potential leaders of the United States of America. Since the advent of television, political campaigns have become the ugliest kind of marketing wars (far worse than Subway v. Quiznos). Choosing a President in recent years has been the same as choosing what brand of cheap beer to buy-really doesn't matter they all suck, but they get you drunk. Right, and most Presidents have a tendency to instill a similar feeling as a result of observing their strange and irrational behavior.

The 2008 election has managed to open the field up a bit, with many names being thrown into the ring for a Campaign Battle Royal. Not surprisingly, a large portion of the Presidential contenders will be battling out of the Democratic corner. Some of the current Democratic front runners are Illinois Senator, Barack Obama, New York Senator and former first lady, Hilary Clinton, and John Edwards, the 2004 Vice Presidentiak candidate and former North Carolina Senator. Slinging mud out of the Republican corner there is Arizona Senator John McCain who should've won the GOP nomination in 2000 over Bush, but thanks to a rumor about an illegitimate child with a black woman, his chances were squashed and the rest is history. While McCain is currently the favorite, Rudy Giuliani (former New York City Mayor) is riding his success during 9/11 as far as it will take him. Whether that final destination will be the White House, no one can say as of now. Both parties have a slew of other hopefuls, but unless they cure cancer, save Iraq, sabotage their opponents horribly or bring about world peace before 2008 their chance of winning their party's nomination is minimal.