Poor Judgment

First of all, whatever person decided that judgment is spelled without the "e" at the end of judge was using very poor judgment.

Second, in political matters, see if you can understand what concerns me about the way Americans judge candidates and, by extension, elect our leaders. Yesterday, I changed my Facebook status to read, "Michael has less confidence in McCain by the minute."

Today, I had a response to that comment which read exactly as follows...

"I'm still for him...dont like the name "Barack (sounds like Iraq) Huessin (Relation to Sadam?) Obama (Osama Bin Laden)...I dont want a president with this name! Priority One!

Take a few seconds to read that again.

Sounds like Iraq. Of course! Why didn't I think of that? How did the pundits miss this important piece of political insight?!?

Am I wrong to question how we make our choices? Is it any wonder that we've had the President we've had for the last eight years when this is the criteria some number of actual voters uses to decide? When news organizations poll likely voters about the most important issues in the election, usually the economy, security, and foreign policy rank highly, but is that only because CNN neglects to include "candidate's name sounds like Iraq" as an option?

God help us.

In unrelated poor judgment-related news, my kickball team lost the other night as a result of a bad call by the umpire on the final play of the game, which resulted in a 1-1 tie being broken.

See if you can count the number of instances of poor judgment in the sentence above. If my blog gave me the capability to do so, I would list the answers in small print, upside-down at the bottom of this post so you could see how you did. Unfortunately, I do not have back-of-cereal-box-activity capability, so I will list them here...
1) I am on a kickball team
2) some guy is a kickball umpire
3) he blew the call at the first, enabling a game-winning run to score
4) I'm telling you about it