On the eve of my one year in country, I'll discuss the most Australian topics of all: college football and the U.S. election. Thank you ESPN for finally putting college "gridiorn" on tv, but did it have to be such a bad game for the Buckeyes? My boys are turning into the party poopers of big time college football games. Are we going to be forced to root for a sub par season, just to get us out of the spotlight? It all started with those damn Gators from my least favorite state. Regardless, here's to a touchdown in next weeks game, please.
As for the great high school popularity contest, we're about a month and half from this election nonsense and it's looking a little scary. The fact that McCain is still in this race is a credit to the Republican PR machine that is able to dupe the ignorant public that actually ignores the hipocrisy of this race. If Sarah Palin was a Democrat, the right would be preaching about the "immoral left" with no family values, but they've somehow made this woman a hero as an everyday mom from a small town. Wow, truly juvenile, and it works. Now it's up to Obama's own PR people to get on the ball, fight back, or this is going to be the same old story.
Would we want to take a cue from Australia and make voting mandatory? I'm sure we don't want the man telling us what to do, but would be interested to see how an election would turn out if young people actually got out to the polls.
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