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Have It Your Way

As I was watching TV late last night, I stumbled across a commercial that, in many ways, blew my mind. What started out as a typical fast food restaurant commercial quickly became a very effective political campaign. Without endorsing any particular candidate, Burger King has begun, much like it did leading up to the 2004 election, a commercial campaign – an extension of its HaveItYourWay08 campaign – to encourage Americans to go out to the polls on November 4th and vote. The ad begins as a...

Don't Vote

It is more important than ever to go out and vote, a statement I can not stress enough. The last eight years have not only changed our nation, they have changed the world. From political relations to economic markets, the world has become a worse place because of the Bush administrations agenda. What was once an economic system in surplus under the Clinton administration, George W. has managed to muster up a multi-trillion dollar deficit. The election is less than a month away, and change is not...