A little about my ideology .....

I like politics, insofar as I beleive we all enjoy the privledge of living in this nation, and we should care about how we collectively govern it. That being said, I'm put off by the corruption, special agenda's, lack of integrity, and continual demise of our nation's image both domesticaly and internationaly. My family is deeply immersed in politics and community activism: my father was a 2-term Alderman Council Member, and I was able to serve on both his election campaigns. Recently, he was offered the position of CIO for the State of New Mexico by Governor Bill Richardson, and I was subsequently allowed access to both Richardson’s and President Obama’s campaigns. I have also volunteered for Bill Clinton and Governor Pete Wilson of California when he was still Mayor of San Diego. While most of my family consider themselves Democrats, I lean toward the moderate-conservative side. I tested 83% on the Civics Quiz and answered 9 out of 12 questions correctly on the Current Events Quiz. I enjoy insightful and even heated debate and discussion about current national and world events, and I’m taking this course to both refresh my exposure to American government, and hopefully re-focus my personal grasp of my own political ideology.

Welcome to the Discussion

Welcome to my Blog for my US Government class. I look forward to lively and interesting discussions on a variety of topics relating to our political system and pressing current events. Feel free to vote on the poll I've posted, or simply offer any comments or thoughts on whatever is on your mind. One of the truly defining elements of our democracy is the inclusion of free speech, and as Benjamin Franklin observed in his Silence Dogood Letters, "Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech".