Oh my goodness, I'm so ashamed of my generation right now. I'm listening to Sean Hannity (my boss leaves the radio on Talk Radio, and some of these guys catch my interest so I wind up listening even when he's not here. Heh.) Anyway, he's doing a "man on the street" segment with people who are in New York, protesting outside of MTV studios. (They're protesting the Republican Convention, not MTV. Just in case that wasn't clear, I thought I should edit.) :-) First of all, most of them don't know the name of the current Vice President. Second of all, they all go along with Hannity when he refers to Kerry's running mate as "Stu Ped". They're all, "Oh yeah, I've heard of him ..."

Scariest of all, they can't name one accomplishment of Kerry's, or his stance on one single issue. Yet they're voting for him, just because "he's not Bush." Okay, that's not very logical. There are billions of people who are not Bush, but who would make disastrous presidents. Aaaaack! If you're going to vote, at least do a few minutes of research on some of the issues, PLEASE!

I ran across On the Issues, and found it to be a fairly exhaustive resource if you want to know a candidate's record and/or stance on basically any issue.

I think it's smarter to rely on information about someone's record, as opposed to putting all faith in their campaign promises, because the past is the best predictor of the future.

Anyway, please do some of your own research before you cast a vote for Jim Kerney and Stu Ped. If you don't want to take the time for that, then remember ... Ralph Nader is ALSO not Bush. You could throw a vote his way! ;-)

Edited to add that I realize Hannity could have planted these people and staged fake "interviews" just to create good radio. I've witnessed this personally, though ... people tell me that they're voting for Kerry because he's not Bush, but that's basically all they know. So I thought I'd use Hannity's "man on the street" segment to give me a boost onto my soapbox, so I could urge people (well, at least two people, including myself! Isn't that sad?) to research the candidates' records and make their own decision about the election.