I’m sorry to who I am about to offend, but this Presidential Race feels like a joke.  To me I equate it to none other that one of those “Hi, I’m a Mac”, “And I’m a PC” commercials.  You know the ones.

“Hi, I’m Barack Obama and I’m cool.  Celebrities want to support me because I am cool.  If I could I would wear a t-shirt and jeans on this commercial, because I am like you.  Don’t you think I’m cool?  In fact, if I could play a Feetwood Mac song on the saxophone I would because I am that cool.  Even the “cool” Christians like me because they are ‘thinking outside the box’.  Pretty soon I hope to be in the cover of Relevant Magazine because I am just that…. Relevant.  Check the box for Barack Obama”.”

“Hi, I’m John McCain, and I’m not cool.  I usually am never found without a suit on.  I’m really old and am the personification of a ‘Conservative Republican’.  That makes me not cool to most people, including ‘cool Christians’.  People make fun of me because I don’t play the saxophone, and I didn’t have a cool, popular Christian author pray at my party.  Pretty soon I hope to be on the cover of AARP, and I’m secretly praying there are more ‘conservative’ people in America than there are ‘cool’ people.  Check the box for John McCain”

Am I way off here?  Does anyone else feel like this Presidential Race is quite literally the same as one of those commercials?  I don’t follow politics all that much, and this is why.  It’s a joke.  It’s a race to see how many popular people in specific genre’s and mediums you can get on TV supporting you, and then America does what they are told.  Mac told us to buy iPhones because they were cool.  We did even though we just needed a phone.  Mac told us they were “cooler” than PC’s and we listened.  Now you can’t walk into a trendy part of town anywhere in America without seeing a wall of people tucked behind that Apple logo wondering how to right click something.  Marketing is awesome.

Thoughts?