Super Tuesday and Super Awesome Wednesday

It's rare in February that I have two big events to look forward to. It's even more rare to have them be two days in a row.

If you've been living under a rock or are just completely uninformed, tomorrow is Super Tuesday, probably the single most important day in a presidential election year other than Election Day. 24 states are holding primaries or caucuses, 22 involving the Democrats. As MSNBC has been saying in its ads for their election coverage, this is the most important election of our lifetime. That may seem a bit melodramatic, but it really isn't. Iran, our direction in Iraq, and our position as the world's remaining superpower will all be visited by the next president.

If you haven't read my "About Me" thing on the right, you won't know that I am supporting Barack Obama. We need to move forward, away from the politics of the past. We need a leader who can unite not only the American people, but citizens of the world. People in other countries are excited about what Barack brings! The people I've spoken to think that by electing Obama, American's are willing to admit that we need to take a different approach to leadership and that we are willing to reestablish relations with other countries. It's incredibly important that you vote tomorrow (if your state is holding a primary or caucus -- click here to find out if it is<--NY Times), hopefully for Obama, but make sure you understand what you're voting for and not just who.


Also, if you want a good read, I found this last week and got chills. Washington Monthly asked Ted Sorenson, JFK's speech writer, to write the speech he would most want the Democratic nominee to give during their acceptance of the nomination at the National Convention in August. Sorenson wrote with no candidate in mind. It's amazing. Below are pictures of RFK and Ted (l) and JFK and Ted (r). I couldn't find a bigger one of JFK and Ted.




The other fantastic event, happening on Wednesday at 9pm EST on ESPN2, is the quasi-annual US-Mexico game. Both teams are pretty much at full strength, as usual, and the Mexicans are hoping to end an embarrassing record against the US (12-7-7 since 1990, 9-0-1 since 2000 on non-Mexican soil including the glorious 2-0 win at the 2002 World Cup). Hugo Sanchez, the Mexican head coach, is trying to downplay the match-up against the US, trying to save his own ass should the current streak continue. He actually had the audacity to say that it was unfortunate the game was going to be played on US soil since that will give the US a home crowd and the benefit of calls. Fat chance! The game is being played in Houston, the city with the third-largest Mexican immigrant population in the US. The only venue in the US that has ever hosted a pro-US crowd verse Mexico is Columbus Crew Stadium in Ohio. Keep talking, Sanchez, you're making me giggle. So if you aren't doing anything Wednesday (word here in the Wis is that we're going to be pretty well snowed in), tune in. It's always a good game. Below are the highlights from the last meeting in the Gold Cup final in June. I couldn't find one that included the Mexico goal and was shorter than 58 minutes. Oh well! You get to see Benny Feilhaber's beauty, so who really cares?!