Happy Super Fat Tuesday!

We've had two days to recover from the Greatest Upset in NFL, and possibly US sports history, last Sunday, as the New Jersey Giants won the Superbowl!!!! Their Parade is going on in New York, as are the Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. The Giants ticker tape celebration culminates at Giants Stadium, where on Monday Senator Barack Obama was joined on stage by Senator Teddy Kennedy and Robert DeNiro. Bobby D?!?!?! That's almost as big a surprise as the Grateful Dead, sans Jerry of course, reuniting for Obama in San Francisco yesterday. Well, anyway...

Today is Super Tuesday. 24 States, including the Great State of New Jersey, are holding their primaries today. It's a tight race on the Democratic side with Senator Obama, who is in the delegate lead right now, pulling up to tie with Senator Clinton in National polls, not to mention in races like California and New Jersey where Clinton used to be up by double digits.

One important note: In New Jersey, citizens who are not affiliated with a party or are registered as INDEPENDENT CAN VOTE, if they declare which party they will be voting for in the primary.

In case you hadn't guessed by now, I voted for Senator Barack Obama. In addition to being amazingly intelligent and writing the best political book I've read that wasn't written by a founding father, he was against this War in Iraq before it started and before it was popular for politicians to do so.

Another, bigger, reason for voting for Obama was that he inspires people to believe that their Country can be great and that they are essential to making it great. The proof of this shows in the youth, who lack luster candidates always blame for not coming out. They are coming out for Barack.

One another thing, which unfortunately has the feel of "who you would like to have a beer with", is that I can see Barack Obama sitting at a table and talking with anyone, friend or foe, ally or enemy, yes man or nay sayer. I do not see Senator Clinton in that same light. She strikes me as much more of "My way or the Highway" type of person. And we've all seen how that attitude works out.

Well that's my two cents. Now go out and vote!