Return to blogging

I just got internet back after my recent move, so posting will resume after my end of year hiatus. In the meantime, I ran across this game on The Smoking Gun website and I thought I'd post it for your entertainment. It is called Presidential Paintball. So far, it includes only the three front runners on each side. On the Democratic side, they have Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards. On the Republican side, they have John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Rudy Giuliani (okay, not a front runner, but I surmise that when the game was created, he was). Enjoy!

If anything, the game accomplishes a few things: 1) It gives you a chance to aid your candidate take on his/her competition in a no holds bar match (where no one really gets hurt!) 2) Perhaps gives us a better way to pick a president. :) After all, if Sen. McCain can defeat all five other candidates there'll be no question as to his stamina to be our commander in chief.

While some people may find it objectionable to have these candidates on the cross-hairs, the game is all in good fun, and in some ways, to me, seems a means of showing how infantile the extreme partisanship, and political pettiness in our country has become. So much so, that a paint ball match does not seem a far fetched way of solving any political impasse (particularly following Monday's Democratic debate and the confrontation between Senators' Clinton and Obama). That said, this is all in good fun, so don't take it too seriously. :)