Recently I have been noticing that there has been a lot more coverage of the primaries and caucases that are coming up soon. We have seemingly entered the presidential campaign season.

In 1992, I was very active in the election. I did lots of volunteering, and was involved in a lot of activist activities. It was really fun! Good parties, interesting conversations, friends, etc... What more could one want as an undergraduate? (It was also a good opportunity to get beer before I was 21.)

For the following two elections, I was out of the country. I made an effort not to worry about American politics. It is after all a lot of pointless argument over diametrically (how was my spelling on that one?) opposed positions. It was kind of nice to take a break from the "us vs. them" nature of American politics. (Here's the secret: You're right, according to YOUR point of view.) It is possible that the inherent extremism in a two-party system naturally leads to the country taking the "middle road." -That may be a blog entry for a different day.

Now I usually vote for the Democrats, and I skip voting for people who I have never heard of (I don't vote for names.) Naturally I have been paying attention to how the Democratic party's nomination process is going. It looks like Howard Dean is becoming the favorite for the nomination. I don't know so much about him, so I decline to comment on him.

Watching the coverage, I have chosen my own personal favorite. It seems that I tend to prefer Joseph Lieberman over the rest of the field. He seems to be the one in the bunch with whom I most agree. Unfortunately, he doesn't have the charisma of Bill Clinton or even George Bush. He doesn't necessarily "look" presidential. That is a shame, because I really like what he's said so far. I think that I like him because he is more reasonable than the other candidates.

-- By the way: Did anyone watch "60 minutes" last week? They had an interview with the president of Turkmenistan. Tonight as I was watching "Sabado Gigante" on Univision, I noticed that the host of that show sort of resembles that president of Turkmenistan. Maybe Turkmenistan is a puppet regime, run from the Miami offices of Univision.

That by the way may be an interesting commentary. Saturday night television is so boring in the USA that the most interesting show is in a language which I barely understand.

Buenos noches muchachos y muchachas.