A Time for Change

Good evening and welcome back to the blog. Sorry for the long pause between posts but as most of you know last week was midterm week, so I was busy studying for them. I still have one more to go and that will be on Tuesday. So far I have only received one grade and that was for my Fundamentals of IT class which was an 81. I am not completely happy with the grade but figuring I missed the class the week before I will take it. I hope all of you did well on your midterms and if you haven't gotten your grade yet I hope it will be what you wanted.

On to some historic news, as we all know November 4Th was election day and it was one of the most historic days in American history. As we know our President Elect is Barak Obama and he is the first black president in US history. Now I don't want to just focus on his skin color but just on the fact that it was a minority period is an awesome thing. I told everyone leading up to this election that it was going to be historic in more ways then one. This election was going to define who now has the voice in America to change things, whether it is the youths or still the baby boomers. I believe a lot of my generation was annoyed at the older generation for voting in Bush not once but twice and ushering 8 years of bad decision making. My generation could not understand why someone was voted in a second time after the first time was so bad. It was also my generation that lost a lot of friends and family to the war in Iraq, and everyone in the United States could say we needed to go into Iraq, which is fine, but did anyone know how to get out?

November 4Th was the day for my generation to stand up and push for change. Although our percentage of the electorate stayed the same, 17%, more voters in the 18-25 range came out and voted. Of course just the youth alone would not be enough to get Obama in and that is where the 60% of the White vote comes into play. This election shows that the youth do have a say in politics and that we can and do follow politics. It also proved that negative campaign ads will no longer effect the vote as it has in the past. In fact researchers showed that the negative ads hurt the candidate that was pushing most of them and this election it was McCain.

Our generation is not only too smart for negative ads but we also are very good at doing our own research and can filter out useless information. The way we are able to do that is through the marvelous use of computers and the Internet. Since we had to grow up and have a lot of information thrown at us we had to learn to process information quickly and figure out what is fact from fiction. Since this election showed everyone that the youth can make a difference, politicians will now have to figure out how to reach us. That is another reason why Obama won because he used all the mediums that the youth uses such as, text-messaging, facebook, myspace and emails. He campaigned not only in person but also in areas where the youth would be greatly involved such as the Internet. I now believe with the success of this election Republicans are going to have a hard time trying to figure out how to reach the youth. I must tip my hat to McCain for running a great race and thank him for continuing to serve his country in any forms he chooses. He gave an awesome concession speech and I only wished his supporters were less sophomoric in thought and did not boo when he mentioned Obama's name.

Now it is time for the Rebecca and Jose corner. Rebecca is teething again so she has not been feeling well this past week. She is getting two more bottom teeth and soon steak will be in her menu. Jose continues to grow and grow. He is a bottomless pit when it comes to formula and is almost as tall as his older sister. If he keeps this up he will end up being taller than her soon. Now they are getting ready for one of the busiest times of the year with Thanksgiving, my office party and Christmas right around the corner. Anyway that is all for now and I hope everyone will have a great second half to the Fall semester. Reminder registration is ongoing so if you haven't registered do so now.