....In my humble opinion, all of the candidates are more than capable of serving as Commander-In-Chief and getting some major issues we face today turned around and likely with similar modes of execution. No matter what anyone SAYS to get elected it may be a different story once in office (ie George Bush and “No new taxes!”). In addition, we’ve seen too many times how confusing, divisive, and elitist political party affiliations can be. Truthfully, they can operate to serve some good, but the evidence shows that the bad far outweighs the good. My hope is that every American who makes the trip back to the polls in November goes with a sense of voting for the candidate that we each individually believe will best address the issues we face today; the economy/housing market, gas prices, the war, health care, etc. When we learn to vote for the good of our national community we will learn that it will ultimately benefit us all as individuals. I’ll end with this quote from George Washington during his farewell address as President:

On party politics:

They serve to Organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force–to put in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; often a small but artful and enterprizing minority of the Community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public Administration the Mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the Organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modefied by mutual interests. However combinations or Associations of the above description may now & then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, & to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.