The things we base our decisions on...

I know we are all guilty of this. We sometimes base our decisions on irrational logic. Be it from a past bad experience, or just trusting our "sixth sense", we all have made choices not based on facts or reason but on some crazy line of thought.

For example, choosing a name for your baby. You might kick around a few ideas with your spouse. The conversation might go like this: "How about Britney?" "Ugh, that reminds me of Krazy Britney Spears, no way". "How about Shiela?" "uh, no. I knew a girl named Shiela once. She was a bitch". And so it goes until you narrow it down.

Or maybe you don't want to try this fabulous new drink that the restaurant is offering, because you once had a VERY bad night with tequila and she is NOT your friend and just the THOUGHT of having a small TASTE of that drink makes you throw up in your mouth a little. (This is not from personal experience - Ed.)

But those examples are understandable, if not entirely logical. When it comes to an important decision, like buying a house, or investing your money, I assume most of us use some kind of reason. Or logic. But I have a deep seeded fear that most of our voting population in the United States does not have that same logic when it comes to picking a president in the next election.

I was watching the nightly news not long ago. They were interviewing voters in the state of North Carolina. A state that is mostly pro-McCain. So the interviewer was asking random people who they would vote for. If they answered Obama, then the interviewer would ask the person what they didn't like about McCain. If they answered McCain, vice-versa.

The interviewer was talking with a man, I would say his age was roughly 40 years old. Looked like a blue collar worker of some kind, maybe a factory guy. He stated that he would vote for McCain. So the follow up question was why he didn't want to vote for Obama. The man went on to say that he had HEARD (not seen for himself) that at one rally some months ago, Obama didn't put his hand to his heart when they raised the flag and played the national anthem. In this man's mind, this proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Obama was not patriotic and didn't love the United States like he thought a president should. Now, could he tell the interviewer when this incident occured? Nope. Could he even tell him where he had heard this information? Nada. So based on pure conjecture and rumor, this man decided how he was going to vote in the next presidential election.

I'm not sure if this allows me to shoot people like this, or if I'm going to just have to shoot myself and get it over with.

-K