Brief Note on My Opinions

I guess it’s best to avoid politics with one’s blog about one’s Peace Corps experience. Nonetheless, and I’m no political scientist, but I’d just like to take a moment to express my enthusiasm for Barack Obama. My opinion used to be “Grr, Obama and Clinton are the same and I’m disillusioned with the system.” But a few brief moments looking at his views on his website really left me impressed. A lot of politicians are just faces without any real area of expertise, right. Obama, however, taught constitutional law for ten years at the University of Chicago; he wants to work on a way for representing the whole spectrum of religious diversity that one finds in America; he has international roots and wants to increase diplomacy efforts twofold around the world, and never gave any indication that he buys into a mentality of paranoid imperialism; he’s not a robot, jaded and totally lacking perspective from a lifetime of experience in our twisted political system. I think he’s a lucid, eloquent, normal, well-intentioned man who is what the United States requires if it’s not just going to end up a humiliated empire trying to claw its way out of a downward spiral. I love my country, but I still get embarrassed when I reveal my nationality to people here, and I think we need a fresh start from a different angle.

Opinion number 2: I just finished working my way through season 3 of The Office. You know Andy, the Cornell grad?

“I went to Cornell. Ever heard of it? I graduated in four years, I never studied once, I was drunk the whole time, and I sang in the a capella group, 'Here Comes Treble'.”

With all due respect to my alma mater and classmates, it’s funny ‘cause it’s true!