What I learned from the 2008 presidential election

1) Race is more important than anything else.

During the next presidential election, we must put forward a candidate of a different race (in order to be fair now)--either Chinese, Japanese, Korean, American Indian, or?

2) Experience no longer matters. (Talent for public speaking is the only experience necessary!)

No one cared that Obama failed at the only thing he had been in charge of before he became President--the Chicago Annenburg Challenge (CAC). Although, to be fair, he was successful as a lawyer for ACORN when he sued Citibank to force them to give bad loans (loans to people who couldn't afford them). So, we must not only find a candidate of another race next time, but one who is head of a debate team.

3) Security clearance has taken on a new meaning.

No one (except some vocal ex-FBI agents who were free to speak) seemed to care that Obama would not have been able to pass a security clearance due to his associations throughout his past such as Khalid al-Mansour, Kenny Gamble (aka Luqman Abdul-Haqq), Mazen Asbahi, Minha Husaini, Tony Rezko, William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Rashid Khalidi, Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, CAIR, and Nation of Islam. Too bad Tim McVeigh wasn't around to run for President!

4) Citizens of the U.S. have no constitutional "standing" (we are not allowed to know anything about our candidates unless they feel like telling us).

Obama is the first presidental candidate who refused to produce medical records, college records, records from his 8 years as Illinois State Senator, and original birth certificate (in fact, he had it sealed in Hawaii before the election). Guess from now on it'll be ok to play a new version of Blind Man's Bluff where the country is, in effect, blindfolded so we can't really know who we are electing! (The audacity of wanting to know such things!)

Live and learn.